Maroon Bells

[mojo0716]

Maroon Bells

[PhoebeG]

What a beautiful scene. I would have like to seen the tops of the mountains with a little more color like the reflections. Not sure why that occured, maybe that's a natural thing with these huge landscapes. Very nice!

Phil G.

[mojo0716]

Thanks. I was thinking the same thing about the tops of the mountains. I have a bunch of shots of this scene and they all turned out this way, with the tops of the mountains more saturated in the reflection. I suppose I could saturate the tops of the mountains and try to match the reflection.

[Martin Brazil]

Speaking from an amateur prospective, the scene is gorgeous. I would have liked to see more colour in the mountain tops too and I think different angles might have worked quite nicely so that it would be not quite so center focused, but I'd have to see other angles to know if that worked or not.
Wonderful place though, I could easily spend a few days camped up there.

[EOSThree]

This is great place to photograph, I imagine you were lined up with several others with tripods on this scene.

The sky has a strange color gradient in it I don't know if you did something up there or the compression, or the downsizing...
HD technique Graduated neutral density filter, or blending two exposures could have helped with the large dynamic range in this scene. Using one of these techniques would have held back some of the bright sunlight on the mountain tops allowing for better all around exposure of the scene. You are losing the highlights in the mountain peaks while the foreground is fairly dark.

[MichaelD]

Looks to me as it was too much manipulated, some things just don't seem to be right.

[mojo0716]

Ok, does this look any better?

I fixed the sky and tried to match the mountain tops to the reflection.

Thanks