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Description
The way the low evening light on Grand Prismatic spring in Yellowstone plays across the water and small terraces is compelling to me. The gradations from light on dark to dark on light are fascinating.
Specific Feedback
Any comments welcome. I’m happy with this, but there’s always room for improvement.
Technical Details
Sony a7r3, 1/60s, ISO 4000, f/11, 96mm. Not focus stacked, although I did try some.
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This is sooooo coooool Bonnie. . . . It looks like sheets of steel or a giant sheet of flaking shale. I love the peaks and valleys and the layers upon layers, and that steel grey color is amazing. Nice work to see and save this image. Sorry for getting your name wrong Bonnie.
I absolutely love this, Bonnie. I see mountain ridges, as I suspect many viewers would.
There is a faint ridge near the center of the photo, angling left and down, that bothers me slightly. I think it needs to be as pronounced as the other ridges or absent altogether. I lean towards absent.
Holy Cow!!! This is wonderful – the seeing, the capture and the presentation! It’s a classic face/vase thing (which shelf is higher?) and I love the way it inverses right to left. The gradient is amazing! I think @Don_Peters has a good point about the much smaller ridge – it’s not a huge thing but I’d remove it.
Bonnie, this is great. The transition from bright ridges to dark ridges across the frame is compelling. The big “V” pointing down sets off the side to side changes very well. I also like how the large view contains extra details that are hard to see in the standard view. Subtle additions like these are what, in my mind, makes a photo worth viewing repeatedly.
This is wonderful, Bonnie. I had no idea what I was looking at when I saw it and still can’t quite figure out what was going on (and don’t really care). This is just mesmerizing. I don’t mind the fainter ridges as to me variation is going to be in anything natural.
I certainly saw those fainter “ridges” and I rather liked them. There’s some darker ones towards the lower left, too. For the time being, I’m leaving them in just because they don’t bother me.
Yes - this is the most interesting feature of the low light on the terraces. I find it fascinating.
This is great, Bonnie. I would normally suggest flipping the image horizontally, so that it reads dark to bright, but something about this works very nicely as-is. Perhaps because the tones are so well balanced? Regardless, very nicely seen.
Thanks, @Cody_Schultz. It was originally horizontal, of course, but Jennifer saw it on the back of my camera and immediately said, “oh, flip it!”. I did equalize the dark to light transition across the frame so it would be +/- balanced.
This is mezzmorizing! My brain things it is something different every 10 second. Great texture and pattern. I love the gradiant from light to dar as well. Great job.
