Light on Longs

Beautiful, Jeremey. I love that strong black diagonal and all the other diagonals that parallel it in the image. I'm not sure about the small bright rock in the lower left , though; it definitely stands out in that shadow but seems too small to become an actual focal point...have you considered darkening it or cloning it out?

I love the dramatic black and white you have here. If you have a color version, would you mind posting it? I'm just curious what it looks like; I seldom convert images to B&W myself and would love to compare the two.

Jim

Oh, and I like the title!

Hey Jim, thanks for the kind words. Yeah I agree about the rock too, I'm just a super purist when it comes to photoshop haha, I hate cloning just about anything out unless I could've physically changed it in reality (footprints, trash etc), but that's just me. I wish I figured it out there, but I make silly mistakes, oh well. I've posted the color version here. when I was out in Colorado it was basically all blue skies, and I have found that during the day with blue skies, B&W seems to work better for me if there's strong contrast. I got another picture I may post that's similar from the same trip (unless I already did, I forget). I also have posted here a very quick redo crop of the B&W, what's everyones thoughts? Thanks again James!

Hi Jeremey, I think you initially were right not to photoshop out that single rock. I took your original color image into Capture One, added a layer, applied a luma-mask and tried to work out the very subtle structure in the seamingly black part of your b+w-picture. Then I converted it into a new b&w, which I add here. Even this edit has been done on a screenshot of your color-image, you can see that your capture has indeed a structure beyond. If you try to edit your original file (hopefully a raw-file) in the same way, you will certainly get a much more detailed view into that "black rock field", and James Covello's "small bright rock in the lower left" will get kind of a justification...