JD750 Loc: SoCal

Windy blustery day, cloudy, snowing in the mountains but mild weather no snow, in the Big Pine valley. The mountains seem to loom over the meadow. Tried to capture it. Comments?

Meadow Near Big Pine CA

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Frank2013 Loc: San Antonio, TX. & Milwaukee, WI.

I believe with a bit more contrast and or clarity and lower highlights and whites those background mountain tops might be a bit more prominent, if that is your goal. Maybe a slight crop up from the bottom to lose some foreground. A pleasing photo though.

Edit: And yes as pointed out my minniev, Welcome to the section.

Billyspad Loc: The Philippines

The processing has made the horses very prominent and moved those mastic mountains into a supporting role. They are not doing any looming Im afraid. Needs detail and color bringing out in Photoshop I feel

minniev Loc: MIssissippi

I do believe you may be new to FYC and if so, welcome! Hang around, join in the conversations, share your pictures and talk about whatever, it's a fun village we have here!

The Eastern Sierras is one of the most wonderful places on the planet and you captured a beautiful scene that is classic ES - horses, flatland, gorgeous mountains towering above.

I wish there were more sky to give those wonderful mountains some breathing room, even at the expense of giving up some of the grassland in the foreground. You have good detail in the shot, and can probably bring out the mountains more in PP, despite the hazy atmospherics from the snow in the higher altitude. I have taken some similar shots in that area with that same atmospheric so I know it is a bit challenging to do that and still retain the natural appearance, but it's a lovely shot and worth wrangling with!

Linda From Maine Loc: Yakima, Washington

Living east of the Cascade Mountains, I can well appreciate weather differences that are separated by just a few miles and few hundred feet of elevation.

This is an appealing image for the contrasts and the glimpse of vast, rugged space.

As others have mentioned, I'd be more comfortable with a bit of additional space above the peaks. If you don't have another viewpoint, on this one perhaps consider cropping the area in front of the darkest clump of grass on left. That would bring us a bit closer, and the wider aspect would enhance the feel of the space.


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JD750 Loc: SoCal

Thank you Linda, et. al. I am new to this site. FYC was recommended to me by my UHH friend, R. Malarz, I wish to thank him too.

Linda you explained what I was tying to capture better than I did. Down in the meadows it was blustery but mild, higher up in the mountains it was snowing. Thus the lack of clarity and contrast in the back range. I am always fascinated and amazed by the extremes of mountain weather. And that was a cropped image so I have room to re-crop, show more space above the back range of mountains, and widening the aspect ratio is also a great suggestion (smack hand into forehead). Thank you. I will definitely give that a shot.

Thank you to everybody for the views an comments.

JD750 Loc: SoCal

I re-cropped and added some sharpening for the near background. I like it a lot better now. Thank you for the suggestions and critique.

Meadow Near Big Pine CA #2

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Linda From Maine Loc: Yakima, Washington

It feels so much "righter" to me too :) Not only the breathing room at top, but seems like I also notice the contrast even more between placid grazing horses and wintery, rugged mountain peaks.

minniev Loc: MIssissippi

Definitely more appealing with this crop and aspect. Nice improvements.

There may be a little more you can do with the lightest areas of the distant mountains but it will require some care and caution in order to keep it looking as it did to your eyes and brain when you were there.