Banff, Alberta

Hi Michael

You have some wonderful landscape and action photos in your gallery. You have a great eye for both composition and subject matter. This image is very nicely composed and does well to show the town in the context of the fabulous mountains. The subject matter is interesting and your exposure has good shadow and highlight detail allowing further processing. I believe you could achieve even more with this image with a few fairly minor adjustments.

Firstly, as is often the case with wide vistas, the atmospheric haze shifts the overall white balance towards the blue. This colour shift is real and would have been technically visible to the naked eye from your viewpoint. However, the brain tends adjust the white-balance back towards a more ‘normal’ value. The brain has more trouble doing this when looking at a print or screen because the brain has to average the white balance with the other elements in direct and peripheral vision. The result is that a person seeing the image on their screen would tend to perceive the blue shift in your image as ‘false’. I would suggest adjusting the colour a little to de-emphasis this blue shift.

Secondly, the image is a little ‘soft’. This will be due in part again to the haze but also to the D70; by default, the D70 produces images that tend to be soft. This is a good state of affairs since it allows extensive further processing. So I would suggest that you selectively sharpen all of the image with the exception of the sky.

I hope you don’t mind; I’ve taken the liberty of posting back two images: the 1st includes the processing mentioned above and the 2nd takes the processing further and shows what your image might look like if converted to black and white.

Anyway…

This image, and the ones in your gallery, demonstrates well your very good eye and skill as a photographer. This one just needs a little more post-processing.

All the best, Mike

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