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Yinka

Great composition.

i like this one very much also. is the dark part on the mountain from your grad filter or is it just in shadow? def a wonderfull landscape!

Great work - it looks so massive and this dark clouds add some mood.

Magical.

Very nice composition and DOF.

the sky seems to dark, but in the rest the picture it;s ok, cheers !

Thanks for the nice comments. I used a 3 stop graduated neutral density filter.

 

Yinka

Yinka, I doubt that this photo needed a GND. But if the sky really did need to be darkened, then it probably should have been done digitally rather than with an actual filter (for the reason that has been cited several times: that mountain sticking up in the air). Anything that protrudes part of the way into the GND is going to look odd (this often happens with trees). The digital alternative is to make two layers, darken one of them, and then blend them in a way that brings the best of both layers together (there are several ways to do this).

Stephen

 

thanks for your constructive critique. The sky did need the GND. I have shots of the blown out sky without the GND, so I do know that. As for multiple exposures/RAW conversions with blending, I did take some shots with that too.

 

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Yinka

Magnificent landscape excellently composed. I like the great DOF from the little flowers in the foreground up to the mountain. Great light and great sky.