Cold Mountain

drdan · May 23, 2004

I've edited this one quite a bit, including taking out the Pikes Peak highway zig-zagging up one slope. It still needs something. It was late day and pretty cloudy, north side of Pikes Peak.

pilgrim · May 23, 2004

Nice one dan! I wonder if cropping about 2 inches or so off the bottom would help, like removing the tree's pretty much. I find the closest tree to be distracting.
The mountains and sky look amazing though.

nikon90s · May 23, 2004

There is my ideas. just a quick 5 min ps job I hope you don't mind. but I thought i could show my ideas better.

ksmattfish · May 24, 2004

I'd like to see at least half of the sky cropped out. Maybe even down pretty close to the peaks. I like the dark foreground; it creates a solid base for the image. The area of bright sky needs to be reduced; it takes away from the height of the mountains.

canonrebel · May 24, 2004

dan,
Are you going for black & white or for color?
I would like to see more detail in the bottom border to better elude to 3-dimentions and better lead the eyes into the photo.

Jeff Canes · May 24, 2004

Nice shoot, think I would only crop about 1/8 off the bottom.
Keep up the Good Work

canonrebel · May 24, 2004

nikon90s said:
There is my ideas. just a quick 5 min ps job I hope you don't mind. but I thought i could show my ideas better.

nikon90s, your version:
The sun on the white caps is not from the sun of your semi-sunset. The direction of the light in the original is from the right of the viewer.
The horizon should never split the frame into two equal halves.
There's no detail in the forground
The Setting Sun is in the center of the picture.

The sum and substance of the original has been totally changed.

Desaturate the highlights that are in the forground and on the mountain in order to hide the original direction of the sun, move your sun toward the right (or) the left margin and you will have made yourself a nice photo. A totally different photo but nice all the same.

Your rendition of a sunset is excellent and displays an excellent PS ability. Good job on a sunset.

Sharkbait · May 24, 2004

Dan, I like it a lot, but I think it's just a bit too dark to really make it pop. Whabout converting it to b&w, and boosting the contrast--give it a real ansel adams feel.

drdan · May 24, 2004

Okay, I "Ansel Adamized" a little and gave it a slightly gold, somewhat monochromatic look. This ones even darker though. Seems a little more dramatic to me but after several versions I've been looking at it too long.