At first I didn't consider this image worth post-processing. It grew on me for months and just recently, few days ago, I stumbled upon it again, while culling through my images again. This time, however, I had a clear vision of what I wanted to achieve and convey with this picture. It all was there, sitting in front of me. I just couldn't see it until just now.
As always - I'm happy to hear your thoughts. Especially on toning the image. In one frame I have almost three different landscapes - harsh sun, clouded shade and rain/fog - at the same time. It was quite a challenge to get everything in place. If you have any suggestions on this - don't hesitate. :)
I think it looks great. Its an incredibly awesome scene full of drama. I think that if you'd like it could handle a bit more contrast to further enhance that drama going on. The warmth of the sunlit areas really accentuates the coolness of the clouds above.
Hi Daniel, thank you for your thoughts. :) I have to say, tone balancing in this image was particularly difficult to me, given so many different light qualities in one frame (harsh, direct light, soft shade and fog / rain the background). I didn't want to overdo it, so I decided to leave it as it is. But I'll have in mind what you said and experiment with it later. Thanks once again! :)
I like the partially desaturated flowing to the saturated concept. I think I would like it better if the saturated area was emanating from the rainbow. So instead of it being saturated on the bottom and then less saturated at the top it would be more centrally saturated and then become monochromatic towards the bottom left and top right of the photo. It is definitely A cool concept to keep developing.
Thanks, Logan! I used (mostly) very subdued colors and what I was trying to achieve is a natural distribution of color, given the light. Hence the more saturated colors in direct side-light (bottom part) and less saturated at the top (cloud, shade, rain/fog, generally lower contrast and less of visible color). But I'l give a thought to what you said and try to incorporate that. :)