Originally posted by kinega Great landscape, fab view. The B&W is good but can't help feeling colour would be better for this.
Here's the color version. I gave it some thought, but ultimately decided the B&W did a better job drawing my eye to the needle and emphasizing the texture and shape that I wanted to be the essence of the image. Would certainly be curious to hear your thoughts though!
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Originally posted by SimonC I likey
Just scrolling the photo down to form a sort of crop I quite like it without the fore ground rock at the same time it seems to highlight the diagonal ridge which then runs from the bottom left corner leading the eye towards the light and needle.
Just my thoughts but feel a bit embarrassed suggesting them with such a lovely photo.
Your embarrassment is misplaced as you've hit upon the thing I probably struggled most with in my post-processing, which is what to do with that very prominent rock in the foreground. As someone else mentioned earlier, its quite bright for starters, so I took care of that as best I could. But yeah, the cropping...I played around with different crops a LOT and there's definitely merit to your idea of cropping it out to get that diagonal line. At the end of the day, I wasn't willing to do it since it meant I would have to give up a few things. First, the depth that comes from having the foreground. Second, leaving it in also almost invites me to just walk out into the photo and take in the surroundings, which I like. And third, it adds a bit of thirds to the photo. All that said, that rock turned out to be a real nuisance and if I could shoot it again I would probably try to find a way to have it not be so prominent.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts!
Jon