The photographer is looking for thoughtful feedback on the image as a whole, especially around the areas noted below.
Feedback Focus: Artistic / Expressive
About This Image
Taken in late summer (early September) from the Hidden Lake overlook in Glacier NP. It sure did not feel like summer! Cold and windy with the occasional light sprinkle but looking off the west I was treated to a wonderful light show on the distant hills as the sun peeked in and out of the clouds. This was one of my favorite frames. >=))>
Feedback Requested
The URC is not sky but more distant hills. I considered cropping but did not want to lose the mountain tops on the left. Your thoughts?
Technical Details
Sony A77II
Sony 70-400 G @ 210mm
ISO 400, 1/160 @ f8
I don’t care about the URC, I just love the light and the softness of the colours and light. It’s impossible for me to find anything that needs improvement.
Hi Bill,
The light in this image really draws me in, the lines and texture keep my eye moving through the photo. I feel like I’m standing on the hillside looking out over this vast view, Really beautiful feeling, thank you for taking me there.
I wonder what it would look like if the URC were a tad bit darker? Not sure.
Alice
A wonderful play of light and mist on the mountains in this image, Bill. The upper right is fine with me adn I most certainly wouldn’t take anything off the top.
The Light is truly a delight, like the brighter area as it shows us where its coming from.
Cant see any problems with the processing - which is subtle and perfect to my eyes.
Bill, the lighting is indeed wonderful. I really like how parts of the image glow. The depth of the view is set off well by the clarity of the ridge in the lower left. I’ve “toyed” with adding more contrast to the distant ridges, but second thoughts have me thinking that it would reduce the “glow”. You might try some darks burning along the top half of the right edge, where the mountains are fading away.
My very brief initial impression was that this could benefit from some clarity, but then as my eye settled and I absorbed a bit more I realized the haze gives this a wonderful subtlety that works very well. It’s a nice contrast from the clear lower left to the soft upper right, and gives a beautiful range of sharpness that I find enchanting. Well done!
I love the sense of depth we have here, Bill, and it’s partly that gorgeous light, but also what appears to be an old burn scar (or just a ridge of larches already loosing needles?) and the golden haze as we venture into the image further. There was a slight tip of sky or the very furthest mountain in the upper right corner. I played with different crops, and none of them made a huge difference, all of them diminishing our sense that this goes on for ever.
There was this one tiny crop off the top and right that got rid of that bright corner. Just offered as a grain of salt.
Oh wow, I really like the luminance and tones in this one! The mountains on the far right don’t bother me as much as losing the top of the mountain on the left, BUT I can see how you were stuck! You wouldn’t want to lose any of the ridge on the lower left. I like the way it comes just past center. Sometimes in situations like this, I will turn my camera vertically and do a pano which I will crop to a standard 2:3 crop. This gives you a lot of leeway to crop the image you want from within the larger image.
Magnificent landscape expressing a “painterly” style -Whete the sunlight landed, The way you captured and played with overall luminance: the blended softness of color and mountain/hillside shapes lends itself to an Impressionistic painting. That was my first “impression”
I immediately thought/“channeled” Monet ;)) Simultaneously drawn ~ welcomed into the depth and variance in distance from your vantage point view. You were indeed fortunate to encounter present all this in one frame. I think it is rare skill snd talent to be able to blend photography and painting achieving the marvelous effects of both through the artistic(creative) mind’’s eye.
Reluctant to play with editing tools , I wondered if “tilted” slightly whether an “imposed” symmetry of the angles would change the overall feel of the “slant” of light as you captured it. ?
Then againI like it just the way it is! The kind of photo I would return to view again especially if i were walking through a gallery exhibition in a physical location. Memorable! Thank you.
Really beautiful image. I love the soft colors and all the subtle layers of green, yellow, and blue in the distant hills. The light gives it such a peaceful feel.
The one thing that caught my eye is the peak being clipped in the upper left. Do you have any extra room in the original frame to include a little more of it? Regardless, I really like the soft color palette and mood, very nice image.
