Winter in the Rockies

[Teton Chuck]

This photo is looking down the Snake River from the south gate of Yellowstone National Park. It was totally overcast with snow falling and wind blowing. It felt like it was begging for a black and white photo.

[rpcrowe]

Well done... I remember driving through Northern Arizona after a blizzard. There were only two colors: white of the snow and a very dark green of the trees. Every limb or ever tree was clumped with heavy snow! It was perfect for a shot but, I could not stop on the freeway to get the picture. That is another image that I will carry around forever, in the album of my memory!

[Teton Chuck]

Thank you Richard. I think we all have images in our minds that never made to organized electrons. This one was a quickie but I couldn't resist.

[Mike Buckley]

The quickies are sometimes the best and this proves to be true to that. Quickies so often require intuition to take over, preventing the possibility of overly thinking through everything resulting in a technically correct but uninspiring image. The mood in this image is very inspiring.

If you don't have an image with a little more space at the top, consider increasing the canvas size to make that happen. Considering the even tones in the sky, it would be easy to do.

[John 2]

Does need more at the top but interesting in quite a graphic way. Nice image that I am happy to view as a photograph. Not so keen to be there amongst it.

[IzzieK]

Lovely as this is so beautiful and peaceful and a good composition too, it conveys a feeling of brrrrrrrrrrrr..........cold again!

[deetheturk]

Nice capture Chuck!

[Teton Chuck]

Thanks for the comments and suggestions. Mike, what do you mean by increasing the canvas size? I don't have much room at the top to work with.

Thanks, Chuck

[Mike Buckley]

Imagine a painter's canvas. The painter can choose a canvas of this size or that size. Many software programs, including very basic ones such as Photoshop Elements, allow you to do the same with regard to a digital image. Doing so increases the number of pixels extending beyond your image to the right, left, top, bottom or whatever combination of those that you want. Doing so increases the size of the canvas that you used for your image.

In this case, you would extend the canvas size at the top by increasing the number of pixels in that direction. Once you do that, your image will remain intact but you'll have space at the top that has no image data in it. Simply clone the sky to extend it into that new, empty area of the canvas.

[Teton Chuck]

Thank you Mike. Much appreciated.

chuck