Large Format Landscapes

[EOTS]

Wow. You must have been jumping up and down when you came upon that scene: Stop the car, Stop the car !

Have you considered making the lighting a bit more dramatic ?

Thanks Ken,

I walked there by feet ... the road is not really public ;-)
But my compañeros only took close-ups pictures of the icicles ...
I decided to step back a little bit ...
normally I don't do roads and stuff ... but here I liked how it leads into the picture ...

More dramatic in terms of an more contrast (like an S-curve?)
Or local sculpting?

Natural lightening changes ... for example sunset is hard to do there as the mountains block virtually all light in the foreground ... I mostly did closeups of the Mountains with Alpenglow ...

[Ken Lee]

Thanks Ken,
More dramatic in terms of an more contrast (like an S-curve?)
Or local sculpting?

Perhaps something a bit less literal, more of the mystery we sometimes feel in the early morning. My version is a bit exaggerated, but it's a direction you might consider.

[mono]

Sorry, but way too dark!
I like the original as is.

[Ken Lee]

Sorry, I am working on a machine at my workplace, where the monitor is not calibrated.

Here is a lighter version. Perhaps it's still too dark.

As I said, the sample I provided is a suggestion, and... exaggerated

[Old-N-Feeble]

RE EOT's gorgeous mountain scene: With others making suggestions about it I just couldn't help myself. It's such a great image. Tweaked curves and hue/sat then reduced the brown stains in the ice/snow (got it too pink) and added a corner-burning curves mask.

[EOTS]

Thanks guys,
I guess I could punch up the contrast a bit,
I like what Kens version does with the sky...
but I won't sacrifice too much foreground detail ...

@Old-N-Feeble: how's your technique of getting rid of the stains?
Haven't been successful in my attempts...
Although they're not pee but stem from the icicles ...
But of couse the first thing that comes to mind is that they are ...
so I'm willing to let them go ;-)

[EOTS]

Theres a more constrasty version

[Old-N-Feeble]

<snip>how's your technique of getting rid of the stains?

That looks really nice, EOTS... but the original is great too. We all have our personal opinions though.

I didn't want to state that the yellow-brown areas in the snow look... just a tiny bit... like moose pee stains.

I used the Eyedropper Tool to select the color from an average part of the snow in the same vacinity and used the Paintbrush Tool in Hue Mode set to 50 percent Opacity. The most deeply stain areas required the most painting. It's important to follow the shape and contours of what you're painting over especially linear shapes like the icicles. I wasn't very careful though. I overdid it in places and should have selected from more similar shadow areas as I painted but I was in a hurry. Also, some of the areas I tweaked have a red tinge on this other monitor.. I moved the image from one PC to another and back and they have mismatched profiles.

I'm sure there are better techniques but that's what I did.

[EOTS]

That looks really nice, EOTS... but the original is great too. We all have our personal opinions though.

Thanks!

I didn't want to state that the yellow-brown areas in the snow look... just a tiny bit... like moose pee stains.

No, your're right ... I think it would draw the viewers attention too much ...
At least for the final print I try a version without those...

I used the Eyedropper Tool to select the color from an average part of the snow in the same vacinity and used the Paintbrush Tool in Hue Mode set to 50 percent Opacity. The most deeply stain areas required the most painting. It's important to follow the shape and contours of what you're painting over especially linear shapes like the icicles. I wasn't very careful though. I overdid it in places and should have selected from more similar shadow areas as I painted but I was in a hurry. Also, some of the areas I tweaked have a red tinge on this other monitor.. I moved the image from one PC to another and back and they have mismatched profiles.

I'm sure there are better techniques but that's what I did.

Thanks I'll try that!

[cpercy]

Severe is an understatement. You have rendered perfectly the starch terrain. I don't think that I would like to trek this area...

Cheers,

Luc

Thanks Luc, about had a heat stroke there one time in July when me and couple of friends hiked several miles out into the less severe part, this stuff is almost impassable.