Mountian in B&W

[EJC]

I really like the landscapes Ansel Adams shot. Inspired by him I tried a mountainscape on a recent trip to Banff. I think I made the trees framing the sides to obvious. Your thoughts on the framing and anything else would be appreciated.

Thanks
EJC

[Marko]

This is indeed an Anselesque shot and pretty well done overall.

To improve.....Ansel Adams was of course all about the print being the performance of all the hard work. The mountain and sky are very well handled here. Maybe - just maybe you could pull 5-10% more highlights out of the mountains.

Both the trees that frame the image as well as the trees that are in front of the mountain have very limited tones in them. You definitely have to bring those out if you want to pay an even greater tribute to the Master. The tree at left also needs to be straightened. With some more dodging this print could be excellent.
Hope that helps
Marko

[tirediron]

Marko's right on. I think this image needs to be worked as a number of layers to get the most out of it. One for the mountain with a slight contrast boost, one for the foreground trees, dodge/lighten, and a third for the framing trees, dodge/lighten again.

[EJC]

Thanks guys great input! Your suggestions will be my project for this week.

EJC

[EJC]

Here it is again with adjustments as suggested. I cropped it a little differently to make a 5 x 7 ratio I think I'll make a small print of this one. Thanks again for your help.

EJC

[Marko]

This is getting better in the printing for sure, but is a different perspective....usually I know right way, but I'm not sure which perspective i like better....I think I lean slightly toward the first.

Don't know if you want to invest the time- - but there are still more tones to be brought out here and now that I take a closer look, it may well be a bit underexposed. Ansel would have likely spent a day or 2 on this one print...so that goes to show you just how hard it is to get a print to sing.
Hope that helps - and again - beautiful shot.
Marko