sometimes it looks right thru the lens Original version was technically crap and displeased me so this is my dark vision for the Monolith Updated using the Clarify function in Adobe's Camera raw. Thanks Karla!
Proportionally, I dig this photo, a glowing sunrise glistening against the rock formations in the background. I appreciate you didn't choose to saturate your colors too much.
However, there are two things about the photo that disturb me. First, the foreground of the rocks seem too light. I'm not sure if this is from underexposure, selective editing, or HDR, but if you look at the tone range shadows, especially on the left-hand rocks, you can tell there's something off in their value. I was reading some of the descriptions in your other recent submission...maybe you adjusted the dark range of the levels too much here?
There are two disturbing dark spots in the middle vertical 1/3 (not sure if this is a lens spot or selective editing), and in the lower-left hand corner there seems to be some selective burning...and ironically what these do is further pronounce the lack of comparable contrast among the rock formations.
However, there are two things about the photo that disturb me. First, the foreground of the rocks seem too light. I'm not sure if this is from underexposure, selective editing, or HDR, but if you look at the tone range shadows, especially on the left-hand rocks, you can tell there's something off in their value. I was reading some of the descriptions in your other recent submission...maybe you adjusted the dark range of the levels too much here?
There are two disturbing dark spots in the middle vertical 1/3 (not sure if this is a lens spot or selective editing), and in the lower-left hand corner there seems to be some selective burning...and ironically what these do is further pronounce the lack of comparable contrast among the rock formations.
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