The photographer is looking for generalized feedback about the aesthetic and technical qualities of their image.
Description
While the colors in Grand Prismatic were excellent, the textures and subtle color changes in these terracettes really caught my eye. Anyone care for a puzzle? As many times as I’ve been here and photographed these structures, they caught my eye much more strongly yesterday that any time previously…
Specific Feedback
I really like the sense of all these strange profiles pointing down slope and the luminosity shifts within each terracete.
Technical Details
R5, 100-500 @ 100, 1/500s, f/16, iso 800, tripod and polarizer. A 5 shot stack for dof.
Me too. I had to look at this one for a while before it drew me in. Then it did. I suspect that you learned from your previous attempts. It’s a fine shot.
Hi Mark,
I am really liking this intimate scene. I love the way the squiggly lines draw me into those terraces with their varied shades of earth tones. You are right; this would make an excellent puzzle. My only suggestion; and just my personal preference; might be a small crop from the right side to remove all of those lines sitting along the edge. I hope you have some images of the terraces to show us as this looks like a fascinating area full of possibilities to explore. This is beautifully done.
Ah, my favorite feature in all of Yellowstone Park. The Grand Prismatic Spring dishes out every color in the rainbow and at the same time, that gorgeous pool of water cascades down and over these “Terracettes” creating a geological wonder and a photographers dream shot. What’s so interesting to me is that you can’t see any water flowing over these terraces. Did you use a Polarizer to eliminate any and all water glare or was it actually dry when you shot this? I’ve never seen them dry so that’s why I’m asking. The composition looks good to me but I do see why @Ed_Lowe mentions a slight crop off the right side to eliminate all of the gathering of lines on the very edge of the frame. The colors are muted and are not screaming “look at me” but instead the low saturation allows the terraces to take center stage. Seeing this makes me miss Yellowstone but I’ll be back soon enough. Thanks for taking me there with this image.
@David_Haynes, these were wet, the lack of color shows that the water was cool. When they dry, they turn grey. I don’t think I used my polarizer (but am not sure). Since the sun was coming over my shoulder, earlier views showed very little polarizer effect.
Wonderful, Mark. I can see this one working in black and white also, but I lack the natural palette of this. As we all know, a subject doesn’t have to be colorful to be engaging. I also find the right edge a little distracting with the closer contour lines, so to speak, but I’m not sure a crop would improve the overall image. I can also see a rotation to put that heaviness of lines at the bottom, but that doesn’t quite line up with your near to far approach.
A true, natural abstract! I love how you’ve isolated these patterns (and colors) and agree with your observation of the colors and luminosite changing as you move downslope - although honestly, the slope could be going up!
