Mt. Ypsilon Chilly Winter Morning

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What technical feedback would you like if any? All technical feedback encouraged!

What artistic feedback would you like if any? General and specific please. What do you think of the dark FG?

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Matt,

An excellent and bold winter mountain scenic. The colors and the first light of day are beautiful.

The darker forest area doesn’t bother me; there’s detail there, we can see the trees and I think the foreground ridge contrasts nicely in the overall scene.

I love the colors in the clouds/sky as well as the light striking the peaks. For my own taste, I think the contrast is a little heavy, but clearly within the realm of preference.

I like the framing/crop as well - just right.

Lon

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Thanks, Lon. I’ll try softening it a bit.

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Matt, that simply spectacular light that you have here, it must have been amazing to witness in person. I think the composition works well, the arrangement of elements keeps my eye moving across the scene. As @Lon_Overacker said the foreground has detail, so it’s not a big problem, but I could see lifting those shadows a bit. Again, this crosses over into personal taste, but I think the contrast level is a bit too high, and I would prefer to see a slightly lower of saturation on the sunlit portions of the mountains. The colors and saturation of the sky look fine to me however.

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