Red Rock Canyon 14

please view larger, thank you!

Beautiful tonality and nice composition. Great cloud action! Nice work all around.

excellent compostion and landscape, Wonderfull sky and cloud formation. Very good with the placement of the mountains and very intersting foreground with the growth from the desert floor. I would love to see the colour version. for me its missing the final puch in contrast maybe that would come if it was exsposed a half stop less. Super picture and shot.

Thank you very much, Tom and Carl!

 

Carl, I'll put up the color version of this later, I'm not able to get to it from work. I am a bit disappointed in the "punch" of this, too. I process these with Aperture on a 24 inch iMac at home which has a superb bright monitor. I always put these up full screen and tweak the exposure, the contrast and the RGB levels in the monochrome mixer until it looks just right to me on the Mac. So often, I've found that other monitors, including my 19 inch Acer here at work, just don't match the iMac in brightness and contrast.

 

Best regards,

 

Dick

Very good compo ^^^ Best regards

 

***Ali***

Carl, I did some contrast and exposure adjustments to the black and white version which I'll upload here. The color version will be a separate post as Red Rock Canyon 15.

 

Have a good evening!

 

Dick

Dr. A, I monkeyed wtih this for a few seconds only (literally less than 90 seconds) in Silver EFX Pro, which is a Nik software plugin. I think it is available for Aperture, thought I use it from Photoshop.

 

I think that has a bit more punch. I added a yellow filter, added three points to brighten up the mountains and then a filter to reconstruct the photo from simulated Fuji Black and White 100 speed film.

 

This is by no means perfect...the foreground loses a lot...but the sky and moutains have more punch this way.

 

Cheers,

 

Jay

Nice work!

Thank you, Jay and Dr. Didi!

 

Jay, thanks for the example...a little too contrasty for my taste. So far, the monochrome mixer in Aperture has been fine.

 

Have a good day!

 

Dick