The contest entry that didn't win anything!
Sep 23, 2018 14:39:00 #
My first glance the ountain held my eyes then I looked at thae sitionky they did not fit together sun mountain and dark stomy sky it held my eyes for a long time trying to see thru your composition, sometimes the judges are in diferent ballpark artistically I think it is beauty, by the way I love your surfer images it brings mempries from the fifties when I was a young man in southern Cal. YOU WILL WIN THE NEXT ONE
Sep 23, 2018 15:04:03 #
I can't imagine why this didn't win something, Brent! It just breath-taking and soooo beautiful!
Sep 23, 2018 16:17:52 #
One problem with contests is; people entering photos that are better than yours. If you had entered it in another contest you might have won something. I remember entering in a contest with several hundred other photographers where one person took first, second, and third with pictures of an organ grinder and his monkey. I've had what I thought were great pictures and they failed, and I have entered pictures that I thought were just okay, and they won. So it's what you are up against. Also the judges judge differently. I've seen pictures entered that I thought were terrible and they won.
Sep 23, 2018 16:36:04 #
I would like it much more if you cropped out about 2/3 of the sky and lightened it a little. The mountains are fine. Just one man's opinion.
Sep 23, 2018 16:42:13 #
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Sep 23, 2018 17:18:33 #
BrentHarder wrote:
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First it is a very unique and nice image. That being said I think it has too much going on and thus detracts from the focal point. I am assuming that the point is the mountain and the lake. The clouds and foreground take away from that. I agree with turp77 where he cropped it some. I would tend to crop it even more drastically thus eliminating some of the foreground as well as the clouds. When you do any editing in its current configuration. parts of the sky in the upper part of the image turn too blue to be natural.
Swede
Sep 23, 2018 17:43:12 #
aubreybogle
Loc: Albuquerque, NM
BrentHarder wrote:
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I like the composition and "Feel" of the photograph, including the clouds. But the clouds and especially the sky are over processed (saturated) to my taste. But it is your photo, and if you like it that is good enough for me.
Sep 23, 2018 18:06:19 #
I loaded three photos that I bracketed at 0, -2, +2 f-stops into Photomatix Pro. The top one was at 100% strength. The bottom one was at 24% strength. This can cause clouds to become gray and black in areas where the clouds were actually mostly white. That may have happened to the mountain photo. I'm not sure. The clouds may have been really saturated with moisture and dark.
Sep 23, 2018 18:13:06 #
Sep 23, 2018 18:45:56 #
Too much HDR and clouds can look like an oil slick. When I am working a photo I always check myself: Can that location, at any time in the day/year, look like that? Clouds are a big thing to watch out for in my opinion: it's fun to inject them with drama, and dramatic clouds are truly a thing: but, tweaking can make them look like smoke, or oil slicks in the sky. In my perhaps uninvited opinion, your clouds look very oily, and, the mountains just beneath them are so sunny that it invites the viewer to perceive a contradiction. I think that's the trouble. But it's art, and it's in the eye of the beholder. If that image strikes your heart with something that works for you, then that's your vision!
Sep 23, 2018 18:48:57 #
This s is my opinion, for me itâs to buys, too much distractions but my attention are going to the mountains with the sun light..... I would crop some from the sky button and a bit left and maybe right side- I did a quick try .....definitely itâs an amazing image
Sep 23, 2018 18:50:30 #
CO wrote:
I have this HDR guide that I downloaded online.
CO where'd you find this? Looks interesting.
Sep 23, 2018 18:55:40 #
Sep 23, 2018 18:55:53 #
In my 'pleasant moon shot' pic from yesterday ( https://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-555118-1.html ) I let the clouds remain a bit dark but I don't think they resemble oil or smoke. This is the sort of thing I mean.
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