Mt. Lemon and the Catalina Mt. Tucson AZ

vipgraphx · Dec 21, 2011

I have posted many pictures in the HDR and wanted to get out a bit and post some non HDR photos.

This was taken at Mt. Lemon. You can see the city of Tucson along with the Catalina Mountains.

Mt_lemmon by VIPGraphX, on Flickr

This is straight out the camera only thing I did was adjusted the blue in the sky. I had my camera set to vivid and the blue was very deep I wanted to lighten it up more so it looked more like a non edited photo.

Frequency · Dec 21, 2011

it is a very powerful image that projects out of the monitor......

Regards

Joel_W · Dec 21, 2011

Super composition, and you nailed the exposure for sure.

unpopular · Dec 21, 2011

It would look so much better as HDR (LOL).

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You've done a great job here, and I like the contrast between the various terrains. I think the composition could improve if there were a little bit more of the formation on the right as there isn't a whole lot of interesting material on the left, until you get out towered the horizon - which I don't feel like there is enough there. Everything on the right two thirds works very well, however.

Just some nitpicky things, you have some sharpening artifacts on the horizon and over all it seems a little on the crispy side, how did you sharpen this image? Also, the horizon is a bit crooked.

o hey tyler · Dec 21, 2011

The main gripe I had was the tilted horizon. Fix that, and it will be a very solid photograph.

I suppose there's a hot spot on the snow in the middle of the frame, but snow is very difficult to retain detail in when there are other much darker shades also in the frame. So that is understandable. You could perhaps try and bring the highlight recovery up a hair and see how that works.

Joel_W · Dec 21, 2011

o hey tyler said:
The main gripe I had was the tilted horizon. Fix that, and it will be a very solid photograph.

I suppose there's a hot spot on the snow in the middle of the frame, but snow is very difficult to retain detail in when there are other much darker shades also in the frame. So that is understandable. You could perhaps try and bring the highlight recovery up a hair and see how that works.

I took a 2nd look after you mentioned the horizon, and that's a tough call if you look at the foreground which seem perfectly level to me. Could be just the actual mountain range varies that way.

unpopular · Dec 21, 2011

^^ I thought of this also, but I think it looks fine. The only problem is that it's cropped so tightly that there isn't a lot of wiggle room. Even then, if the foreground looks crooked, it's prob better to use the distortion tools than to leave the horizon tilted.

vipgraphx · Dec 21, 2011

unpopular said:
It would look so much better as HDR (LOL).

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You've done a great job here, and I like the contrast between the various terrains. I think the composition could improve if there were a little bit more of the formation on the right as there isn't a whole lot of interesting material on the left, until you get out towered the horizon - which I don't feel like there is enough there. Everything on the right two thirds works very well, however.

Just some nitpicky things, you have some sharpening artifacts on the horizon and over all it seems a little on the crispy side, how did you sharpen this image? Also, the horizon is a bit crooked.

o hey tyler said:
The main gripe I had was the tilted horizon. Fix that, and it will be a very solid photograph.

I suppose there's a hot spot on the snow in the middle of the frame, but snow is very difficult to retain detail in when there are other much darker shades also in the frame. So that is understandable. You could perhaps try and bring the highlight recovery up a hair and see how that works.

unpopular said:
^^ I thought of this also, but I think it looks fine. The only problem is that it's cropped so tightly that there isn't a lot of wiggle room. Even then, if the foreground looks crooked, it's prob better to use the distortion tools than to leave the horizon tilted.

Yeah I should have done this HDR it would have been better:thumbup: :sexywink:

J/K

I still love a true photo without so much processing. HDR is something that I am trying and I do like and appreciate however I wanted to show that I am not just about heavy processing and there is more
to me than just that. My past has been more of this style of photography and until recently that I started using HDR and trying to perfect it. That is how I am not trying to be big headed or anything its just my type of personality is when I do something I do it 100%. I may not ever perfect HDR but I sure will try.

I took into consideration what you both said and I cropped the pictures so the horizon was level. I think its ok but also feels like the right part of the rock is tilting a bit but seems ok. The reason for the cropped tight photo is I was at 18mm instead of 12mm might have been better but it also got to much of the railing on the side of the road.

As far as the sharpening when I reduced the image size from 16inches wide to 6wide so I could upload it I selected best for reduction in CS5 and it might have sharpened it those areas not sure. I really never noticed it before.

Catalina Mountains by VIPGraphX, on Flickr

Thanks for the feed back.