Field and steam

[gary rouleau]

Yellowstone NP as the sun sinks into the horizon.

Canon EOS-1D Mark II N
Lens (mm): 160
ISO: 100
Aperture: 8
Shutter: 1/400
Exp. Comp.: +1.0

gary

[David Kennedy]

Gary,
I know that your exposure was reflective of the time of day--just as the sun was going down--but I felt that it was so dark that the colors were losing their separation. I lightened it up a bit and separated the colors somewhat in LAB. (Alfred Forns and Robert Amoruso inspired me to go out and buy Photoshop LAB Color: The Canyon Conundrum by Dan Margulis). Compositionally, I might prefer to see more of the top (where the trees have been cut), and also drop the bottom a bit so that the shape of the white snow (at the extreme bottom edge) is allowed to take form.

Cheers,
David

[Robert Amoruso]

Hi Gary,

Nice scene. I like the luminosity of the light on the FG shore on the right works as an anchor to the darker portions of the scene. I agree with David's work on the processing and cropping suggestions.

[Bob Ettinger]

Nice image to start but David made a good improvement

[gary rouleau]

Good day,
David thanks, it works for me. That is a good book.

Cheers
gary

[Roman Kurywczak]

Like the corrections,
Roman