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I know this may sounds radical, but how about cropping the cloud on the right and leaving only the cross and the red clouds?

Please Critique. Please comment about the composition as well.

Thanks,

I bag to differ. The icicles hanging on both sides of the climber contributing to the sense of orientation. Cut them out, and the guy might be crawling on a flat surface for all we know. Same thing goes for the sky. I played with this quite a bit and decided to keep it this way.

This was also on my mind when I took the picture, and I made the same decision then. I have a few other shots at http://www.karpel.org/Ron/Reports2001/Ouray020301.html of the same scene (one is exactly the way Phil Morris suggested above), but I like this one better.

Great shot.

In regards to your question on photo critique forum. When you post a photo, there is this little checkbox which says "don't submit to photocritique" or something like that. I sometimes forget to uncheck it, and I found no way to reverse this with edit.

I like to know what you think about this one. Please critic and rate.

Thanks,

Nice colors, maybe a bit under exposed.

Ron

Hi Bernhard,

I wonder about the colors. I have visited Royce Lake and the Sierras many times and never seen these colors. I would have expected more gray and brown then blue and turquoise.

One way or the other, nice shot.

Ron

When you said ice climbers I thought you meant something like this http://www.karpel.org/Ron/Reports2001/Ouray020301_12.html

I would call them mountaineers or maybe just climbers.

Nice shot though.

Kevin, I think the light is a problem here. There are very few details in everything, the snow is too dark and there is very little texture in the ice. I am not sure, but it was probably not an ideal time/day for landscape photography.

As for the composition, I would have tried to separate the woman from the dark area in the background a little more, perhaps a shorter focal length or shooting from a higher point would do that.

Hope this helps,

Ron