Ashland smoldering, Part II

[lovelife65]

#1 in Mono

smoldering mono by sharonkay finley, on Flickr


#2 softened in color

smoldering color by sharonkay finley, on Flickr

[Stagecoach]

No 2 works for me Sharon.

[Wavelength]

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

[pschlute]

Preferring the colour version. Lovely image

[Geoff F]

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.

[mugge]

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

[lovelife65]

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.

20200908-IMG_3690-5 by sharonkay finley, on Flickr

[Manfred M]

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.

[lovelife65]

[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.