Quoting steve harley <[email protected]>:
on 2013-06-20 20:29 Brian Walters wrote
G'day all
Slowly working through the images from my USA trip.
Here's one taken around dusk from Alamosa, Colorado.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1370864/PESO/slides/_IGP2364-K5-1peso.html
this is an interesting way to portray the area, and nice to look at overall
it so happens i was there Wednesday through Friday last week; while
much of the San Luis Valley was shrouded with ominous forest fire
smoke, there were angles of view where i could see clearly,
including Blanca from the Alamosa area; to my eye the foreground is
too vivid since the desert floor is generally fairly dull-colored,
but perhaps you found an unusual patch of grass … looks like it was
not so late in the day as to put red on the mountaintops, or perhaps
you white balanced from the snow?
the tweaks i would propose are to not let the shadow point of the
clouds get so dark, to let the base of the mountains go darker, and
to reduce the overall vividness of the grass/fence colors; the
proportion of the foreground seems imposing to me, but i think that
perception would change if it weren't so vivid
Thanks for the feedback Steve.
The image was, in fact, shot late in the day - just before dusk, but
there wasn't any red colouring on the mountains so I didn't do any
white balancing on the snow. However, I agree that the colour on the
foreground grass is somewhat more vivid than I recall - it certainly
had a golden hue but probably not as intense as I've presented.
I'm going to re-visit the image and I'll experiment with the ideas
you've suggested.
Cheers
Brian
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Brian Walters
Western Sydney Australia
http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/
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