Ebony and Ivory Mountains

cgipson1 · Jun 12, 2012

Not sure about these.. thought I would throw them out to see what TPF thinks...

There was a storm coming in here.. I was trying to shoot macro, and couldn't do it.. too windy, and it was starting to rain
(beautiful wildflowers, and lots of large red butted Bumblebees... didn't get a decent shot before the storm hit!). So I just
shot some landscape instead! lol!

Beautiful clear day on this one

BlueMeanieTSi · Jun 12, 2012

You're bringing back memories of my yearly trips to Denver that I'm not able to take anymore...

cgipson1 · Jun 12, 2012

I understand what you mean!!

marmots · Jun 12, 2012

that first one is beautiful!

LizardKing · Jun 12, 2012

Well, you asked for it, so here it goes haha... Basically, I believe both are great, so I'll just get to the details and try to explain what I see.

1) Composition is nice, except maybe for those high trees on the left that cause a certain unbalance to the whole picture. Besides that, it seems to be a little dark in the foreground for my taste. Love the clouds, and the mountain is a little small in comparison to the rest of the image...

2) Although it's lacking something in the foreground to give a better sense of depth (in comparison to the first one), I believe the composition is stronger. Almost perfectly balance, except for that tree reaching the top of the picture, which makes me wish to see something on the left side to balance it.

Again, I really like both pics, but just trying to look where's room for improvement.
Great work! :thumbup:

BlueMeanieTSi · Jun 12, 2012

That first image, I swear I've been there too....

cgipson1 · Jun 12, 2012

marmots said:
that first one is beautiful!

Thank you! It was a beautiful place! Going to have to go back soon....

cgipson1 · Jun 12, 2012

BlueMeanieTSi said:
That first image, I swear I've been there too....

On 125... about 50 miles south of Walden...

cgipson1 · Jun 12, 2012

LizardKing said:
Well, you asked for it, so here it goes haha... Basically, I believe both are great, so I'll just get to the details and try to explain what I see.

1) Composition is nice, except maybe for those high trees on the left that cause a certain unbalance to the whole picture. Besides that, it seems to be a little dark in the foreground for my taste. Love the clouds, and the mountain is a little small in comparison to the rest of the image...

2) Although it's lacking something in the foreground to give a better sense of depth (in comparison to the first one), I believe the composition is stronger. Almost perfectly balance, except for that tree reaching the top of the picture, which makes me wish to see something on the left side to balance it.

Again, I really like both pics, but just trying to look where's room for improvement.
Great work! :thumbup:

Thanks for the comments... I think I prefer #2 also... especially since I can't enlarge the mountain in #1!

On #2.. there is road directly below where I cropped it.. nice curvy road, that I wanted to leave in the shot. But it didn't look good. May have to try that one again!

LizardKing · Jun 13, 2012

cgipson1 said:
Thanks for the comments... I think I prefer #2 also... especially since I can't enlarge the mountain in #1! On #2.. there is road directly below where I cropped it.. nice curvy road, that I wanted to leave in the shot. But it didn't look good. May have to try that one again!

Maybe if you get a lower (or higher) perspective, that'd make the road more appealing... sometimes that helps
When I see pics like this, I want to quit my job, get out of this city and head to Patagonia...

Majeed Badizadegan · Jun 13, 2012

ALmost an infrared feel to them. I like #2, but not much going on. #1 could possibly use a bit more exposure to bring out some of the nice details in the lower 2/3.

cgipson1 · Jun 13, 2012

Rotanimod said:
ALmost an infrared feel to them. I like #2, but not much going on. #1 could possibly use a bit more exposure to bring out some of the nice details in the lower 2/3.

Something like this?