Leading Lines

[Dvir Barkay]

The powerful sandstone curves of White Pocket Arizona. A storm was brewing in the distance, and it made for a great sky to go with the dramatic sandstone. I think White Pocket is one of the most amazing, yet least known landscapes of the United States.

Sony A100, Sony 16-50/2.8 SSM
16mm, f/8, ISO 100 Handheld

(Hope I didn't post it too big?)

[David Stephens]

Yes indeed, great leading lines and textures. The horizon near the top looks to me like it needs a CC rotation.

[Dvir Barkay]

Thank you for the comments. I rotated it a bit and did a couple minor adjustments, better?

[Don Railton]

Hi Dvir

Amazing looking rock, STRONG lines, nicely composed. Not so keen on the smudgy dark cloud top left hand corner, think I would have preferred more of the right hand sort of cloud but maybe that's the storm cloud you wanted.. No biggie..

DON

[Dvir Barkay]

I personally like the dramatic touch, but its not like I had too much of a choice as that cloud was there, and it was the beginning of a brewing storm so soon after the whole sky was stormy. Thank you for the feedback, much appreciated.

[Don Railton]

Feedback..No Problem. To expand further, the niggle with that cloud is that its closely toned to the rock at that point which softens the outline of the rock IMHO.. I know you could not do anything about it and its trivial actually... is the rock colourful??

[Dvir Barkay]

No its white, the darker rocks in the image are red. There is also some yellow/orange, but that is in the background rocks. I could do some more contrast and try to separate the rocks from the sky, but it was taken on my first photo trip back when I shot jpegs, so I am not sure how it will hold.

[Don Railton]

I have some images taken in the Northern part of Australia with a little P&S that look similar and are quite colourful in deep reds and purples... would love to redo them with my current gear..

[Dvir Barkay]

Yeah same, today I could pull off much better work and much better files than I could a year ago.

[dankearl]

Nice lines and nice B & W, but I have to say for the red rock SW canyon country, I much prefer color.

[David Stephens]

[QUOTE=Dvir Barkay;967803]Thank you for the comments. I rotated it a bit and did a couple minor adjustments, better?
QUOTE]

Yes indeed, better.

I too was a little disturbed by the cloud in upper left, but didn't know if you had some shots without it to chose from. If not, then you did what you could.

[andresleon]

It's a dramatic image that I think could be made even more powerful in color. I do applaud your desire to experiment and try different views. I don't think the upper left cloud is that distracting except that it seems to add noise to the image. Very well composed.

[Andrew McLachlan]

Hi Dvir, love the leading lines and the B&W conversion too...my only concern is for the noisy-look of the storm cloud. I think you could get away with darkening the storm cloud a little more to add a bit more of a dramatic touch to the skies. Nice work!