Badlands Landscape

[John Ippolito]

Badlands National Park, South Dakota
D300 17-55 2.8 @ 40mm, ISO 200, f22, 1/6 sec, spirit level, saved at 45 quality

[Dave Mills]

Hi John, Great light along with an interesting composition. I like the way the foreground peak is taking your eye into the scene. I also like the fact you offset the group of hills and minimalized an uninteresting sky.

[Kaushik Balakumar]

Beautiful image John. Neatly composed frame with some lovely warm light. Might make an interesting B&W IMO.

[dankearl]

Stark and very well done.
I would almost lower the saturation (not that it is too saturated), to give it an even more desolate look.

[Rachel Hollander]

John - beautifully seen and captured. I really like the comp and the interplay of shadows and light.

TFS,
Rachel

[Andrew McLachlan]

Hi John, this is a beautiful composition with very nice lighting over the badlands. Love it!

[Roman Kurywczak]

Hey John,
This is one tough location!!!....and you did very well keeping the balance in the image! My thoughts echo Daves......so very nicely done!

[Robert Amoruso]

I agree with the above comments John. Well done for the reasons mentioned.

[John Ippolito]

Thanks Dave, Kaushik, Dan, Rachel, Andrew, Roman, and Robert for your comments, suggestions, and encouragement. Always appreciated! Kaushik, I am going to give the B&W a try.
It is a challenging place to get enough topography in the frame, without getting "too" much in.

[Andrew Aveley]

superb composition and detail in the whole frame :c3:

[Morkel Erasmus]

just love the texture, detail, colour and overall composition here John! makes me want to be there!

[D. Robert Franz]

Excellent sense of depth in this image. You've captured 5 distiinct planes of interest giving the image deep perspective. The curving FG plane also leads your eye to the feature plane (your striated hills) A BG plane of more hills adds more interest You then finish with a horizon plane, and your cloud plane of interest. Just a bit of blue sky showing through the clouds would have been perfect. I may have liked a bit more of you FG plane showing and have it a bit further right in your comp... Well done!

[Mitchell Krog]

Awesome John, landscapes like this are not the easiest places to compose, but you nailed it for me.