please critique.

[newrmdmike]

 

[hdtvkss]

maybee its jsut me but i find the reeds / grass in the left hand corner destracting and i keep looking there instead of the rest of the pic. maybee they are shapish in comparison to the smoothness of the rest of the pic?

 

[New England Moments]

newrmdmike..... How are ya... ok first impression look... I believe I feel a slight tilt left in the photo?? going by the brush line at the base of the rock formation, and the the view pulls me left...

I also think you have a halo effect along the top of rock and sky..something overdone, in processing..

As a B+W it is a very low contrast shot, which is ok, it conveys a mood or change in weather... in other words a sunny day vs what you have here, brings on the contrasts, and highlights..

the rock formation lacks any highlighting or detail, but just appears flat/?

The whole shot just has me wondering what time of day this was taken??
It just doesn't seem to have the punch of a B+W for contrast/ tone or highlights....

 

[newrmdmike]

dang, thanks, i'm on a new computer, and the contrast is definatly different than on my old monitor. i'm stuck using a laptop here, and at some angles i can't even see the halo around the peak. however, there is some burning in the sky, but not close to the peaks (ansel gets away with it oops) but overall i think the halo is just in the small resized+oversharpened image.

i agree though that the way the contrast is conveys a slightly . . . well darker mood.

about the time of day :thumbdown: mid-day, it was the only time i had to take the shot, and i doubt the dog would stick around for me.

i think i disagree about the tones part, its mostly the highlights that i think bother you, rather that there isn't as much contrast in the bright end of things

 

[New England Moments]

Mike..... That was quick!! You might be right on the tone feelings,, but what I guess I was saying is that the pic as a B+W ,,, shows the Grays in the sky area,,, shows the Blacks, ( Rock Formation ) but the pic actually portrays no whites... maybe this is a issue in an actual landscape type shot??

Its not a shabby pic in any manor, but think as a B+W it might be letting you down some.. I figured a high noon type shot when I saw the dogs shadow in the water, so harsh lighting also hard on B+W,,,

 

[newrmdmike]

what stinks is that i'm not sure how far i can take the image in terms of editing since my calibration is TOOTALY off.

here is another edit . . . this is so disappointing to me since i have no clue what it really looks like. also, my edits don't look the same in preview/photoshop versus mozilla. its not the color profile of the image though. . .. erg, its almost like dry down or something.

 

[mysteryscribe]

I dont usually do crop comment on photos i can't edit but I'm going to do this one by saying I think I would have tried cropping it at that patch of crass on the left there is nothing left of that patch that seems significant to me.

 

[newrmdmike]

and i don't usually take crop comments as i'm a stubborn as s. BUT, i think i agree with what you said. . . maybe, well see! and thanks guys, i've been lazy lately about crops and such

 

[mysteryscribe]

I've been getting really sloppy. I probably should just pull out some images from back when I was more careful lol.

Anyway it was just a thought.