I don’t post much in this group (mainly because I don’t shoot landscapes that often, and my post-processing skills in the landscape realm are still a work in progress). I took this almost seven years ago when I was just getting into photography, and I would like to print it on an acrylic. I have VERY little printing experience, so before I send it in, I’d love some feedback. I blended a dark and a light exposure. I selected the midtones with a TK mask and did a levels adjustment. I also selected the sky and the mountains individually and did some levels adjustments. Then, I flattened the image and brought it into C1P and worked on the saturation, removed a blue cast from the mountains, and lightened the darkest areas. Finally, I exported a 1600 px jpg and ran a little smart sharpening in PS. With fresh eyes, I see some areas on the edges of the horizon that need some attention. All feedback welcome. Shot was taken from Sentinel Dome during what was probably the prettiest sunset I’ve ever seen. Every direction you looked, the colors were different, and there were beautiful mountains under them. Quite an experience.
Beautiful image and viewpoint. As you mentioned the horizon needs a bit of touching up. For me personally, the purples are a bit excessive on the landscape areas. I’m also seeing a bit of fringing on the clouds from over saturation. I believe I’d also crop out a bit more of the right edge as the dark area causes the image to feel a bit out of balance. Overall though what a shot and I can only imagine what it must have been like in person.
What a glorious sunset. I’ve seen color in the sky from Glacier Pt. as recently as last November and the sky can really go off. A great angle on Half Dome and I like the line of trees to anchor the scene. No doubt a memorable moment.
I would want this scene hanging on my wall as well and acrylic would look awesome. And if you’re going to have a print made, you’ll want to make it the best it can be. I would agree with David that the colors, and specifically the purple/lavender in the granite and landscape in general is a bit over the top and oddly sporadic; notably in the far mountain range on the right and the left where there looks like some fringing. I love the sky as presented, but think some work needs to happen in the granite landscape. Hard to offer a suggestion without knowing where you started.
And this is getting nitpicky, but going to print you want things as flawless as possible. there are a number of very faint dust bunnies. A set of them just above the horizon left of center and a few in the bluer upper reaches of the sky right of center. Actually, faint might be an overstatement, but I think if you review this at 100% you’ll find some.
Thank you very much, @pixeldave downs and @Lon_Overacker. That is precisely the type of feedback I am looking for. I’ve given it a re-edit. I’d love any further thoughts (from anyone).
A lovely image. My nitpicky suggestions are: slightly lighten up the lower right and perhaps crop it a bit, darken the bright spot of sky in the left edge, crop the left edge slightly to get rid of the sliver of tree in the lower left, either darken or crop the top pink-blue sky, and remove some of the magenta/?blue color cast.
Needless to say this is a jaw dropping view, Lyle. I think the repost with David and Lon’s suggestions is getting closer. I think you could dial back the saturation just a bit more and take just a bit more off of the right side; just my opinion of course. I would also clone out the tree along the bottom left edge and the one on the right. This will make a lovely print.
