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    Ashland smoldering, Part II

    #1 in Mono

    Ashland smoldering, Part IIsmoldering mono by sharonkay finley, on Flickr


    #2 softened in color

    Ashland smoldering, Part IIsmoldering color by sharonkay finley, on Flickr

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    Re: Ashland smoldering, Part II

    No 2 works for me Sharon.

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    Re: Ashland smoldering, Part II

    Original is really awesome; i like the monochrome variation also, with its blue black tone

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    Re: Ashland smoldering, Part II

    Preferring the colour version. Lovely image

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    Re: Ashland smoldering, Part II

    For me, the mono version requires a crop to reduce the amount of dark sky, which means having a different size ratio. At the moment it seems a bit 'top heavy' with a large amount of dark sky overpowering the delicate plants.

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    Re: Ashland smoldering, Part II

    I prefer the colour version. The plants are quite striking and I think the sky is is overpowering them a tad. How about reducing the amount of sky?
    Cheers Ole

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    Re: Ashland smoldering, Part II

    Thanks for the great suggestions and comments, they are appreciated.
    A crop of a good chunk of the sky is actually a good call.
    Thanks for taking the time to comment.

    Ashland smoldering, Part II20200908-IMG_3690-5 by sharonkay finley, on Flickr

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    Re: Ashland smoldering, Part II

    I find that your second try (#7) is just a bit to crunchy. The softness of the low clouds seems to have been lost from the original.

    I feel that your crop of the sky moves you in the right direction, but suspect being even more aggressive there plus a bit of a dark gradient might be worth considering.


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    Re: Ashland smoldering, Part II

    [QUOTE=Manfred M;758640]I find that your second try (#7) is just a bit to crunchy. The softness of the low clouds seems to have been lost from the original.

    I feel that your crop of the sky moves you in the right direction, but suspect being even more aggressive there plus a bit of a dark gradient might be worth considering.

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    Manfred, thank you for taking the time to comment and provide a much better edit.
    Looks better and appreciated.

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