Snow on Mount Charleston (11,900 feet). Photo was taken from the 5,000 foot elevation, about 10 miles northwest of Las Vegas.
Snow on Mount Charleston (11,900 feet). Photo was taken from the 5,000 foot elevation, about 10 miles northwest of Las Vegas.
Here we have a snowy peak as the focal point/subject and the topography creating a channel to draw ones eye to it. This is all good. The dark zig zag in the middle of the picture works well to draw the eye to the snowy mountain top. Another good thing.
Still the light is a bit flat, not entirely but a bit. Indicating the photograph might have been better shot earlier or later. However, the snow covered summit allows you to get away with it to an extent, being so much brighter than the foreground. The sky is not especially interesting so I think I would have either, tilted the camera down or used a slightly longer lens, to put the peak nearer the top of the frame, making the mountain look taller and showing less of the sky. Again we have a landscape with no foreground subject but this time that is less of an issue, becasue of the snowy peak. I might have included just a bit more of the foreground plane to provide a base for the image and to emphasise the mountains' height.
We have not seen it in colour but the monochrome image works well.
Better.
OK! I have been playing with your image. I felt it was lacking but had potential that had not been realised. I have added two layers of a 100% radial ND Grad filter, centred on the snowy peak, with a bit of eraser to clean up the snow so the ND had no effect on it. I then added a regular/stright, ND grad 50% to the bottom, to get a more early or late daylight effect, where in the mountains things get much darker away from the summits. Oh, and the first thing I did was to crop it to make it more cinematic, one of my many peccadilloes.
I have mentioned my leaning to the dark side. Click on it to see it on a dark background, as intended, the white page kills photos, especially the darker type. Not everyone feels the same way, of course, but this is my take on your picture. What do you think?