anish

I'm speechless... I think this is one of your best. Looking forward to seeing more from your trip north.

-Anish

Beautiful shot in every way, Andrew. No suggestions for improvement.

Anish

Nicely balanced, clean composition. My only criticism would be regarding the strong distortion at the lower corners. I know this is normal with ultrawide lenses, but IMO it hurts the image. I'd be curious to see what others think as well.

Anish

Good depth. The foreground rocks form a nice "arrow" leading to the background. Also like your choice of shooting at sunset as opposed to going for the more common front/side lighting on the peaks.

Anish

great job balancing the exposure between sunlit and shaded areas. composition is very strong as well.

anish

Avishek,

As you stated, the composition is quite straight forward. One thing I might suggest is a tighter crop to emphasize the various horizontal bands and make it more of an abstract (for example, crop about 15-20% off each side, and the patterns appear a lot stronger in my opinion). Aside from that, there looks to be a slight counterclockwise tilt.

Anish

Great perspective - really makes you feel like you're on the edge. You've also done a wonderful job catpuring depth.

Anish

Wow, this is gorgeous. Great composition and nice handling of the contrasts.

Anish

To start, I would try to expand the tonal range. Too many of the tones here are bunched up around medium gray, making it look a little flat. Play with the black and white points and apply a curves layer and you can give this image a quick boost.

Anish

Beautiful light, nice layering, and a clean and effective composition. I like it a lot.

Anish

I love everything about this, especially the crop. Well done..

Anish

I would not give this a 3, but I would not rate it as a particularly strong image either, mainly due to the harsh overhead light which generally does not show a landscape at its best. With so many landscape photographs out there, often with similar subject matter, what separates the "ok" from the great is the light. Technically, you may want to watch out for things like the blurred grass in the lower left. Good luck...

Anish

From the thumbnail, I assumed this was an evening shot with the sun shining from behind the trees. Then I noticed the star trails. Well conceived and executed. Perfect exposure.

Anish

If not for the sky, I think this could easily pass for a drawing. Very interesting B&W conversion. I like the "tilt" the way it is in this version.

Anish

Thanks, Chris. I initially preferred the cropped version, but later favored this one. Regarding the toning - one this image, the contrasts I wanted were pretty much captured in camera, so very little adjustment was needed with the exception of burning the sky a little.

Anish

I might have warmed this up just a touch, or rotated that polarizer a little more to cut some more blue if possible. The composition is great, though. A lot going on, but well balanced and visually appealing.

Anish

Thanks for the comments, and thanks Mark for the tip. I look forward to trying it out...

Anish

Simply gorgeous light. The exposure couldn't be any better, and the composition is nicely balanced. Very well done.

Anish

Thanks for the honest comment, and I fully agree with your take. I have just started playing around with B&W conversion (as you can see from my portfolio), and I haven't found the right "touch" just yet. Believe it or not, this is a scaled back version of my initial interpretation, which was way over the top! Especially with the somewhat flat capture of digital sensors, I'm finding that dodging and burning are essential to get some pop out of a B&W conversion. I will probably re-work and re-post another version of this at a later time. Thanks again for the helpful feedback.

Anish

True, Bryce is heavily photographed, but this is one of the less frequently photographed views, and it's well captured - except for the blown out highlight in the center of the sky. If some detail can be recovered there, this is a nice image.

Anish

Thank you all for commenting.

Anish

Nice tones and composition. If anything, I might suggest a touch more contrast on the foreground peaks to create more separation with the background, and either to crop right below the clear blue sky showing at the top or to darken that portion. In my view, the pale blue tint does not complement the rest of the image, which is much more dramatic in color.

Anish

Mike,

You've really developed an immediately identifiable style. The quality of light, use of color, simple and well balanced compositions... this one has it all. Beautiful work.

Anish