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    Pyramid Mountain at Dawn Jasper National Park

    Critique and comment encouraged as usual. A trial of black and white versus colour. Still trying to get my head around the processing differences between the two genres.

    Pyramid Mountain  at Dawn  Jasper National Park

    Pyramid Mountain  at Dawn  Jasper National Park

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    Re: Pyramid Mountain at Dawn Jasper National Park

    Very nice pair; i go for color more

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    Re: Pyramid Mountain at Dawn Jasper National Park

    It looks to me like the shadow area between the trees and mountain is a bit muddy. Since it is a broad band at the bottom 1/3 line it detracts somewhat from the image.

    I looked at it again and discovered that it isn't so much a shadow as the treeline and what looked like noise are trees. In trying to bring some detail into it, I just made it look worse.
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    Re: Pyramid Mountain at Dawn Jasper National Park

    Quote Originally Posted by tbob View Post
    Still trying to get my head around the processing differences between the two genres.
    Me too! Hope some the sages will weight in on that one. But they are gorgeous and I do like the B&W.

    For the B&W, my first instinct is: brighter/more contrast but that may just be a newbie, stock reaction, and I wouldn't know whether it's better to start on that with the color version before the B&W processing, or not.

    Also, things have a rightward lean look, and this is enhanced/confirmed by the lean of the spruces - so whether you were leveled or not, I wonder if a crop to get leftward tilt correction wouldn't settle this image some and squeeze out a little more majesty.

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    Re: Pyramid Mountain at Dawn Jasper National Park

    Hi Trevor,I would need more sky and less trees in both images.

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    Re: Pyramid Mountain at Dawn Jasper National Park

    Nice shot Trevor, I prefer the colour version in this case.

    Dave

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    Re: Pyramid Mountain at Dawn Jasper National Park

    Yes, my first thoughts were also about that wide dark area in the monochrome version.

    You can get away with it in full colour because of those subtle tints, but it all tends to merge together without any fine detail in B&W.

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    Re: Pyramid Mountain at Dawn Jasper National Park

    Very nice.

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    Re: Pyramid Mountain at Dawn Jasper National Park

    Quote Originally Posted by Downrigger View Post
    Also, things have a rightward lean look, and this is enhanced/confirmed by the lean of the spruces - so whether you were leveled or not, I wonder if a crop to get leftward tilt correction wouldn't settle this image some and squeeze out a little more majesty.
    Iwill revisit this. Even if the trees are windswept you may be correct in that it is a bit distracting and needs to be amended. Black spruce often grows at weird angles even with no wind effect.

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    Re: Pyramid Mountain at Dawn Jasper National Park

    Quote Originally Posted by bnnrcn View Post
    Hi Trevor,I would need more sky and less trees in both images.
    Sort of stuck with this composition in this image as it is not cropped. I have other shots from the same day that are wider.

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    Re: Pyramid Mountain at Dawn Jasper National Park

    I'm wondering what might happen if you were to brighten up the trees a bit in the b&w. As is, they've lost detail to the darkness, which in turn, affects the entire image. But it's a nice exercise - to compare the same image in both color and b&w.

    Thanks for sharing, and good luck.

    Zen

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