School House Road

[Jack R Mann]

f8 1/60s iso 100 canon 5dmk2 70/200 at 70mm Looking north at pendleton or.

[FrankMi]

Hi Jack! Nice use of sunlight and shadow to emphasize the vastness of the landscape and how the road seemingly goes on forever.

You might want to play with a landscape crop of 16:9 or 2:1. It is also looking like it might benefit from some Local Contrast Enhancement. Are there two smudges in the top left of the image? Dust bunnies?

[Donald]

I'd go with Frank's idea re the crop. Also, the horizon needs straightened up.

But, again, a well seen image.

[JohnnyG]

I almost always look at a sweeping landscape such as this one and see it in B&W. To me, it's not a matter of good color vs better B&W as much as if there isn't something about the sky or a very centralized object in the primary image are which screams to have to be in color, then it's always B&W for me.

I didn't see either of my two criteria in this image and then looked to it as a great B&W. Of course, it is always a matter of opinion and likes, but I think B&W does a good justice to this already nice image. I did crop so the horizon line falls almost exactly on the top "third" line and tried to adjust the horizontal structure so there were good, interesting intersects in the primary 4 intersections. I only used the B&W layer adjustment combined with brightness and contrast and two exposure layers in CS5.

[stardelta]

Hi jack,
what a great picture , I just want to jump into this photo, and see where this road takes me.
I love how you get shadow,then sunlight, again and again. I find myself exploring everything in this scene.
I also get the feeling that the picture is pulling me in, which is a great thing. I would be very proud of this shot.
Your new fan . Glenn.

[Jack R Mann]

Thanks Frank, Donald , johnny and glenn for your comments and suggestions all appreciated.

[Jack R Mann]

re crop

[Jack R Mann]

B+W and crop love b_w with crop thanks for the ideas everyone.

[JohnnyG]

You did someting to the color image on the recrop that makes the color image much more pleasing...so, would you like to share?

[Jack R Mann]

Johnny i just toned down the highlights, 1st image was a little to bright and blew out clouds, and i should have done the same thing to b+w.