My stab at black and white . . . love my mountains . . . where I find peace.

[Kathy O]

Mountain photo's taken on our recent hike in the mountains. I know they are soft, they were taken with a long lens, no tripod. I know . . . shame on me, but at the time my tripod was unavailable to me.

Constructive Advice is welcome.

[LePetomane]

Kathy, you have mountains like that in Nebraska? I like the contrast in the first one a little better.

[Kathy O]

Kathy, you have mountains like that in Nebraska? I like the contrast in the first one a little better.

LOL!! Paul! No mountains where I live, flat as a pancake!! These are mountains in Colorado, RMNP. Thank you for your input

[LePetomane]

No mountains where I work (Minnesota) but a lot of them where I play in Wyoming.

[Kathy O]

No mountains where I work (Minnesota) but a lot of them where I play in Wyoming.

I have never been to the Sheridan area, we have visited the Snowy Range a couple of times Wyoming is a beautiful state!

[lovelife65]

Nice scenes. I would bump up some contrast between the snow and rocks and also the clouds and sky.
My old stomping grounds, I went to college in Colorado.
Thanks for sharing your beautiful photos.

[Shadowman]

Nicely done, how long of a lens, I ask because I will tackle a landscape with a 70-300mm; angle of view is abbreviated but it does work.

[pnodrog]

I prefer the composition of the second photo but the tonal range of the first. Below is an example of a tonal range that may suit. It just seemed easier to show you rather than try and explain. I will remove if you wish. If starting with a RAW file a far stronger result could be obtained.

[Donald]

Paul has addressed the technical issue of the development of the image. Do you have a calibrated and profiled monitor. If not, your images could look okay to you, but be badly over-exposed to the rest of us.

In terms of composition, I again agree with Paul in that the second version is a more pleasing image. Why?

In the first one, we have a lump of rock dominating the image. Well, you might say, it is a mountain! But, I think a mountain needs to breath within an image. It needs to have space around it. Unless you are really zooming in to focus on a particular feature and/or the tones/lines/shapes are strong enough, then pull back and show us the mountain in a context, such as with the second one.

[lovelife65]

Pauls edit looks great. Beautiful mountain.

[Kathy O]

Nice scenes. I would bump up some contrast between the snow and rocks and also the clouds and sky.
My old stomping grounds, I went to college in Colorado.
Thanks for sharing your beautiful photos.

Thank you for your input

[Kathy O]

I prefer the composition of the second photo but the tonal range of the first. Below is an example of a tonal range that may suit. It just seemed easier to show you rather than try and explain. I will remove if you wish. If starting with a RAW file a far stronger result could be obtained.

Love it!! Thank you for sharing your vision of this photo

[Kathy O]

Paul has addressed the technical issue of the development of the image. Do you have a calibrated and profiled monitor. If not, your images could look okay to you, but be badly over-exposed to the rest of us.

In terms of composition, I again agree with Paul in that the second version is a more pleasing image. Why?

In the first one, we have a lump of rock dominating the image. Well, you might say, it is a mountain! But, I think a mountain needs to breath within an image. It needs to have space around it. Unless you are really zooming in to focus on a particular feature and/or the tones/lines/shapes are strong enough, then pull back and show us the mountain in a context, such as with the second one.

Donald thank you for your advice and I do agree about the breathing of the image I have a Pavilion 20 xi hp monitor, it is a nice monitor but I have not been able to calibrate it yet -- something I know that should be done.