Grand Tetons

[MatthewWilliams]

Just messing with some pictures from this summer, I like the scene here but the original photo was so so.. I played around with it in Rawtherapee and i kinda like the old time feel of this -- maybe I went to far .. but just trying to 'Artistic' I guess --- I pushed the contrast and black levels Way up to get some definition in the clouds ... maybe if I created different layers for the foreground and background would work better .. as always comments and blunt criticism is welcome ------ the border came from playing around on Flicker and editing it in Avairy

[IzzieK]

Yes. You did the clouds very well here..the mountain looks great too but something is amiss -- the greens and the yellow needs a little bit of pumping up to make this image pop some more.

[Shadowman]

Nice capture.

[flashback]

I think I have that exact same photo, circa 1985.
I would play around with the mountains, see if I could pull a bit more detail out of them.
As for the border...meh. It doesn't add any thing to the image, after all, it is Le Trois Tetons.

[Manfred M]

Matthew - this shot really does not do anything for me. Starting with, as you put it, a "so-so" picture and playing around with effects is unlikely to result in an improvement.

1. The shot is badly underexposed. My guess is at least a couple of stops. This means you are missing a lot of the information that could result in a good image. The lack of contrast doesn't help at all either.

2. No "head room" in the shot - the mountain looks "cramped" the way you've framed it. A bit more sky along the top would have helped.

3. The frame - it really adds nothing to the image and just adds an unwanted distraction. I personally love frames around images, but this one doesn't do it for me. I don't love the design for this image (it would work fairly well if you were going for a grunge style shot) but it would need to be a fair bit thicker; it's too narrow to work on this shot.

[MatthewWilliams]

yes this set was under exposed but we already down the road .. was driving with my wife an mother in law and bathroom stop was more important at the time then making sure the camera was set properly....

i tried this one also

[IzzieK]

Now that looks better...do you remember why it has a barrier? Is it to prevent the public from trudging through the bush? I love the mountain and now it has more room to move up with the clouds and extra space at the top...

[MatthewWilliams]

it was a fence around a small around the parking area

[MatthewWilliams]

Matthew - this shot really does not do anything for me. Starting with, as you put it, a "so-so" picture and playing around with effects is unlikely to result in an improvement.

1. The shot is badly underexposed. My guess is at least a couple of stops. This means you are missing a lot of the information that could result in a good image. The lack of contrast doesn't help at all either.

2. No "head room" in the shot - the mountain looks "cramped" the way you've framed it. A bit more sky along the top would have helped.

3. The frame - it really adds nothing to the image and just adds an unwanted distraction. I personally love frames around images, but this one doesn't do it for me. I don't love the design for this image (it would work fairly well if you were going for a grunge style shot) but it would need to be a fair bit thicker; it's too narrow to work on this shot.

well I did ask for brutal feedback -- The original was pretty bad i will admit and my PP skills aren't that good ..... so for a shot like this how do I get the mountains to look sharper and not so bland. Is more of that to do with the post then actually in the camera. I've seen several articles but like i said my skills at that are quit limited as is the software i have.