Dreary

[Downrigger]

Have had a spate of bad winter in Salt Lake - rain and gray - though finally some snowpack high up. These two images were taken on such dreary days and the capture and the process attempt to communicate that sort of damp grayness, but still a sense of the scale and handsomeness of the country here. Can't always have gleaming peaks, billowing cumuli, and cobalt blue skies. I'd really appreciate some thoughts on whether these work as intended.

[Shadowman]

They work, the peaks need a slight separation from the sky in the first image.

[Brownbear]

Hi Mark,

Lovely! Beautiful composition, detail (especially the trees in the 2nd image), depth of field, soft colours and the perspective. So much better to be on top of the mountains to take images of them. I love the 2nd image.

If these were mine for the first image I would crop a little bit off of the bottom, mostly because the bottom left hand corner of the image is not as beautiful as the rest of the image. And in the 2nd image I might crop off just a little bit off the top of the sky just to the first band of clouds but I can't explain why.

[Downrigger]

Thanks much, Christina and John. I like your suggestions very much.
Christina's is sort of the obverse of John's with regard to the first image. I can't add sky - was stuck at 70mm at widest with the lens I had out that day, but by cropping the bottom (I agree Christina - I wanted foreground but just got messy stuff) we get a higher ratio of sky to land which helps some to address John's valid concern.

[Shadowman]

Thanks much, Christina and John. I like your suggestions very much.
Christina's is sort of the obverse of John's with regard to the first image. I can't add sky - was stuck at 70mm at widest with the lens I had out that day, but by cropping the bottom (I agree Christina - I wanted foreground but just got messy stuff) we get a higher ratio of sky to land which helps some to address John's valid concern.

Very nice.

[Otavio]

Hi, Mark. They work, for me. I like #2 better, due to the color range. Nice shots! Cheers,

[Downrigger]

Thanks, Otavio and John. Given the objective, I'm afraid they succeed about to the degree that they aren't that exciting.

[Bobobird]

Dreary is so hard to capture but you have done a good job on them.

[Sergio M.]

Thanks, Otavio and John. Given the objective, I'm afraid they succeed about to the degree that they aren't that exciting.

I wouldn't say that, Mark. You succeeded in the goal of showing the handsomeness of the country while also displaying the damp grayness. The images and your being out there to capture them, are exciting. Well done.

Sergio

[Wavelength]

I really wonder how Nature maintains so much differences in various places...this is really different.... i liked them especially the second one

[bnnrcn]

Hi Mark, I like them both..May I ask how the mountains at the very back side became so blue?

[Downrigger]

I appreciate, Sergio, Bobo, Nandakumar that you comment on these in the spirit of the capture and processing intent.
Binnur, thanks - the distant mountains themselves aren't that blue in the first image - I think the snow is about the same, near and far. What's different is the fir and spruce at higher elevations and on the north sides of the distant peaks - they confer that hue - especially if there's some haze as well. I think haze in the Salt Lake Valley is responsible for the distant blueness in the second. It's not WB - notice the warm hues in the sky and elsewhere. Good question. It's not any local adjustment in PP.

[deetheturk]

Nice captures Mark,well done bud