Diamond Sunrise: This is an image of Longs Peak shortly after sunrise. The large precipice is called The Diamond . Very popular with technical climbers across the US. The alternate...

Gauss Loc: Earth

This is an image of Longs Peak shortly after sunrise. The large precipice is called The Diamond. Very popular with technical climbers across the US. The alternate crop includes Storm Peak. If you have a preference, let me know; just curious. Thanks for looking.

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Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

Number two by the way.

UTMike Loc: South Jordan, UT

#2

JayRay Loc: Missouri

Gauss wrote:

This is an image of Longs Peak shortly after sunrise. The large precipice is called The Diamond. Very popular with technical climbers across the US. The alternate crop includes Storm Peak. If you have a preference, let me know; just curious. Thanks for looking.

Beautiful photographs Gauss!
#2 is my favorite.

dennis2146 Loc: Eastern Idaho

I like number 2 as well. Both are beautiful well done photographs especially in black and white.

I used to live in Fort Collins, just North of Longs Peak. I hope we are talking about the same mountain, one of the Fourteeners in CO. I often thought of climbing it but good sense got in the way.

Dennis

Gauss Loc: Earth

Thank you Longshadow, UTMike and JayRay.

dennis2146 wrote:

... I used to live in Fort Collins, just North of Longs Peak. I hope we are talking about the same mountain, one of the Fourteeners in CO. I often thought of climbing it but good sense got in the way.Dennis

Thanks Dennis. Indeed it is the same Longs Peak. I've driven past Fort Collins many times on my way to Estes Park and RMNP. The Keyhole route, though non-technical, is certainly not for those timid of heights. On my one attempt, I made it to the base of the Homestretch about 300ft below the summit and turned back because of an approaching thunderstorm. Being the highest point and only 14er in RMNP, the route is very popular. I have been on the summit of Storm Peak and Mt Lady Washington - the mountain just out of the frame on the left.

AzPicLady Loc: Behind the camera!

I know that off-center is supposed to be best. But I actually like the centered one better.

tommystrat Loc: Bigfork, Montana

Very nice b&w. Good tonality and the lighting is spot on. #1 is the more dramatic image, IMHO...

Tjohn Loc: Inverness, FL formerly Arivaca, AZ

#2
The foreground doesn't contribute anything to my eye and could be clipped a little, say up to the closest lighted foreground.

Gauss Loc: Earth

AzPicLady wrote:

I know that off-center is supposed to be best. But I actually like the centered one better.

Thank you. Personally when it comes to centering things and similar decisions, I think about things like balance, tension or dynamics, not sure what the best way to say it is. Maybe weight or mass is another term that applies. In the original image - which is a little taller and wider than #2 - there isn't really any thing else in the frame that can be positioned as a counterweight to Longs Peak. Think of it like a teeter-totter with equal or different weights on each side. If you have that situation, then I believe moving the subject (or co-subjects) off center should definitely be considered. Otherwise, centering creates a static scene, kind of like one person sitting on the center of the teeter-totter. Anyway, just my 2 cents.

tommystrat wrote:

Very nice b&w. Good tonality and the lighting is spot on. #1 is the more dramatic image, IMHO...

Thank you. I do like the drama of #1. On the other hand, having climbed on both mountains and the surrounding area several times, and having viewed the pair from many locations throughout the park, #2 almost seems more natural. I'll likely be getting both versions printed.

Gauss Loc: Earth

Tjohn wrote:

#2
The foreground doesn't contribute anything to my eye and could be clipped a little, say up to the closest lighted foreground.

Thank you Thomas. Good point. I did lighten up the shadowed area across the bottom, but the corner is still quite dark and lacking detail. I don't mind having limited areas like that in an image, but here it really isn't necessary to keep it. I tried scrolling the image down to clip off the bottom per your suggestion, and I do like it. I consider all my images to perpetually be works in progress, so I'll create another version to ponder. Thanks again for the feedback.

dennis2146 Loc: Eastern Idaho

Gauss wrote:

Thank you Longshadow, UTMike and JayRay. br br ... (show quote)

That would be me, what a nice way to put, scared to death🤓. One tall mountain I did climb while elk hunting was scary, not so much for the height but because my hunting partner and I ran into an area near the top where we could see static electricity all around us with a storm coming up. Let me think about this, fall to my death or electrocuted. Neither sounds pleasant.

Have a great day,

Dennis

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Both.

Moondoggie Loc: Southern California

Number 2.

joecichjr Loc: Chicago S. Suburbs, Illinois, USA

Gauss wrote:

This is an image of Longs Peak shortly after sunrise. The large precipice is called The Diamond. Very popular with technical climbers across the US. The alternate crop includes Storm Peak. If you have a preference, let me know; just curious. Thanks for looking.

They're both excellent 🖤🖤🖤🖤