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Now this one I like. I saw something about being oversaturated in one of the other comments. I can't tell on this monitor. The backlit trees really stand out vividly against the shadowed background. 6/6

Sometimes you have to think outside the figurative box that is photo.net

 

Sometimes I ask my friends if they've ever heard of Marc. "Nope"

 

Don't worry, you will.

Did you look at the rest of Marc's gallery? He already is a photographic great. As far as I can tell he is the best of the best. What is he, 28? Show me a more talented landscape photographer.

Comments welcome :)

Marc,

I was bored out of my mind in one of my classes today at school so I reflected on a previous statement you made about your approach to landscape photography. It went something along the lines of: successful landscape photography occurs only when you allow nature to come to you. I then thought about some of the mass-production sunset factories. Foreground rock abuse, etc.

 

Then I sat and thought about it. It occurs to me that I have been trying to force my landscapes, trying to just process them as part of a recipe. Perhaps this is why so many of them have failed. My successful pictures have been those in which I photographed what was already there.

 

I'll make the example of one of your pictures that was similar to this (the color horizontal from your trip w/Zack). Both pictures were taken in the same location at the same time, but (no offense Zack) I feel that your picture is far more pleasing due to the juxtaposition of foreground and background. In this one, I imagine that you placed your tripod according to what would give the best shape of the cauldron and adjusted the height to show what background details you wanted (correct that if I'm wrong). A less thoughtful approach might just set up with this as a foreground to whatever happened to be in the background.

 

In other words, you cannot control what is already there and you should not strive to make the secenery before you fit to preconceived standards, but rather make the image work within the context of the subject. Nature controls the scene, you control the perspective?

I love this! The movement of the water is captured perfectly. Would you mind sharing the details on exposure etc?

As long as you rate honestly, not based on what I gave you.

The spread of colours is very nice. It almost looks like something melted. Very nice.

Comments appreciated :)

It is too bad that you don't post for ratings anymore. You'd probably have the number 1 rated photo of all time by now.

I can't wait to take a look at this when I get back to my profiled monitor! This is absolutely stunning!!!!

The other day I viewed this on the computers at my school and my jaw dropped. Then I took a look at it on my nice, profiled home monitor. Then I pissed my pants. Well, not really, but it did have to sprint to make it to the bathroom in time ;)

The larger version definitely shows more detail. I am, however, really picky about colors and amount of any color and I'm not a huge fan of yellow/ The composition is really nice and the ridges are very well lit.

If you take a look at the lens, it's a 17-40 f/4L. This lens doesn't have tilt/shift. I'm guessing, and correct me, Marc, if I'm wrong.... hyperfocal focusing was used to accomplish great depth of field.

I really like the composition and the exposure, but I think that it would look better if you increased the color temperature a bit. It has a very cool feeling to it, which is probably very close to reality, but by warming it up you give it a slightly more unusual, lord-of-the-rings-esque appearance.

This is a beautiful composition and it seems to be very compatible with a B&W conversion. It does look a little underexposed to me. I would lighten up the mountain peak, and maybe decrease the emulation of the red filter on the sky. With the clouds directly to the right of the snowy peak, you might want to try gradually dodging them so that they start off darker near the peack (to keep the lines clean and contrasty) and lighten up as they approach the otehr, darker mountain on the far right.

I just came back to this picture on my [calibrated] home monitor. DAAAMN! Wow.

And wonderrful insight. mI frequently feel the same way when out shooting in the field. It is so sad to think that humanity is content to destroy this natural beauty in favour of manufactured "beauty."

I love how this is more a painting than a photograph. It's like a hyper-painting. Beautiful and considerate composition! I come from New England and am used to such sights (although this year was so dry that we probably will not have a very good show this year) and still this looks excellent to me! Well done. 6/7

Thank you for your comments.

Do you mind if I ask what method you use for B&W conversion? The tones and depth of this are simply stunning!

The position of the walkers was very well considered. On this monitor, it looks to be lacking contrast, but this is a school monitor and not even remotely calibrated. I'll definitely be coming back for another look when I'm back on my own computer. 6/6

and I have come to the conclusion that I actually do like it. That sometimes happens with me when confronted with art, usually music, but sometimes the visual arts. I recind any previous negatives. The tonalities of the background trees are very pleasing and halp make the shot overall.

Oh yeah, btw, I saw The Cauldron on Timecatcher. What a beautiful shot! Will you be uploading that here?

I could have been more clear. This is a good picture. I do not love it, and I do not think that it approaches anything else you have done in its appeal to me, but it is very interesting in its own way. Ansel still holds true: "There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs." I guess my intial reaction was due to the fact that it was hardly what I was expecting when I saw Marc Adamus updated on such and such a date. It is starting to grow on me. We shall see yet.

 

As for the lake, I'll take your word on it for now, but will be sure to let you know when I actually see it. The colors may be natural. They may just be, however, naturally my least favorite color ;)