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Description
A short moment: the clouds lifted a bit and a little sunshine slid over the hills.
I had captured several images, most of them wider, while the hills were more covered. But I think that the colour palette makes this one more interesting.
Specific Feedback
As I said, I also made wider images. Wider also means: more FG. Do you feel that this ones still has too much FG, or is it interesting enough to guide you to the hills?
Technical Details
Pentax K3 Mk. III, ISO800, f/11, 1/250s, 55-300 @300mm.
Raw development in DxO PL6, cropped a bit to a wider aspect ratio, small changes in curves.
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Hi Han, What a fabulous image you have shared with us. I really like how the foreground brings you up the mountains. The textures and delicate colors really give the eye lots of opportunity to explore. I really like that you have not exaggerated the saturation, allowing the natural beauty of the colors to carry the image. Really well seen and processed.
The light in this photograph is quite amazing. Such luminance and they way it builds the further the eye moves in to the BG is very cool. That being said, I am not sure the immediate darker FG helps in this photo. I might consider cropping it out.
Hi Han, you captured a lovely moment with the light kissing the hills! The light and color palette are quite nice. I personally like the darker fore- and midground, although I wonder what it would look like with the bottom-most layer cropped out.
The one dark ridge that goes from one side to the other is what makes this image for me. There are some nice ridges on the right as well. If you cropped any of the bottom it would mess the composition as the sky layer would be too large. It would be too panoramic and would require further cropping in my opinion.
Hi Han,
The light is amazing and I love the soft colors as well as the layering with the ridges in this scene. I could also see this as more of a pano with a little crop of some empty blue sky as well as just a little from the bottom. I hope you do not mind, but here is a rework with what I was thinking. Just my opinion of course.
Thank you @guy , @Mark_Orchard , @Igor_Doncov , @Youssef_Ismail , @Matthew_Chatham and @Ed_Lowe for your comments. Much appreciated.
Interesting to read the different opinions about the crop, that’s why we post our images here, isn’t it?
I’ll go back to the original uncropped frame and play with different crops/aspect ratios, although I think that I agree with @Igor_Doncov that I must crop (at the left side) as well if I cut some of the FG.
Beautiful image!! I especially like the middle layer of color, light and textures. It is also a nice balance between the dark bottom layer and the light sky layer. Nicely done, Han!
This has such nice subtle colors and textures and layers in it Han. I really love the way the light plays across the hills in the upper right mountains. Beautiful. I don’t see any need to crop anything in this one.
I really love this image, colors and lights. I think that the forground is very interesting but the mountain behind is beautiful so I wouldn’t expand it. For my eyes the forground is a bit too dark in comparison with the light part. Splendid image.
Like all the others, I find the layers of texture and the limited color palette very engaging. The scene has an unworldly quality.
I felt that the foreground darkness was a bit heavy, in part because it is uniformly unlit. I tried to see if illuminating one ridge would add interest, and I sort of like it. Better than cropping the bottom, I think.
I noticed that the sky seems desaturated and with minimal contrast. I added some contrast to the bottom of the sky, for your consideration. A distant mountain range emerges.
Thank you @Dick_Knudson for your comment and suggestions! Much appreciated.
I agree, that if you wish to change the FG, your solution is better than cropping the bottom.
