Excellent Point of View, and great framing but for my opinion there is too much blue. I would try to remove the blues only in the sky so that you have a dramatic gray sky and the eyes would drive to the fantastic blue water.
Sorry for my bad english!
yeah, it doesnt really bother me. If im being nitpicky I think there is too much of it. Maybe bringing down the mountain blues a hair would improve it.
I would blame here amount of cyan, which can be seen in the colors of the foreground, and the problem be solved easily, with only one slider in the color balance (from cyan to red) in the PS.
If you like, you can leave cyan color in the sky.
After all, these are personal preferences.
Hi really like the overall coolness of the scene that the dominant blue tones create.
It allows the viewer to feel the atmosphere of the overall photo. I say bravo!
Good image, Sebastien! It comes down to what motivated you to make the image and as Radisa says, personal preferences, but since you ask I agree with the "too blue, too cyan" comments; the image looks a bit too stark to me. For what it's worth, here's my edit of colour and tone. I may have overdone it, but I think there are appealing foreground textures which could be emphasised.
I don't know if it would have been possible, but if the path could go right to the bottom left corner without losing all those ridges in the hillside beyond, I think it could improve the already good composition - that is, take the shot from further to the right, and/or angle the camera down a bit. I've VERY CRUDELY approximated this in the second edit.
As ever, I now await annihilation by those who disagree...!
Looks more natural but looses that dramatic element yet its subjective to personal taste.
As for the trail extending to the corner: to me the original image gives you a sense of dept, somehow a symmetry between the bottom corners as they both tend to go darker and "frame" the trail.
With the trail stretching through the corner you might loose that element but you gain somewhat of a completion. As i said its subjective.
You have a point here, Maicon, about the depth and that certain symmetry and "framing" of the trail that invites us to walk along it to a vantage point at its end.
Speaking of symmetry, though, in reframing the image as I've mentioned (rather than my crude post-hoc manipulation), I would have made the whole image more asymmetric; the path would not look as curved as I've made it, and I'd have moved the far end of the path to the right.
To my eye, this image is just a little too symmetrical. Just my own tastes, of course. Still a great image as is!
Hi, I think it's typically a picture that would work nicely in black and white, playing with the hue sliders to get the look you want. That way you can separate everything and make people focus on the path, the shape of the mountains, and the grey hues in the clouds. The red filter would increase the contrast, the blue filter would increase the depth and decrease contrast, so I suggest you could play with everything a bit and see if you stumble upon a setting you like.
Nice composition, great leading lines, only should suppress a little bit highlights in the sky and for a shade to calm cyan. Excellent work!
Excellent Point of View, and great framing but for my opinion there is too much blue. I would try to remove the blues only in the sky so that you have a dramatic gray sky and the eyes would drive to the fantastic blue water.
Sorry for my bad english!
Cool shot, i'll second whats already been said about too much blue. I'd like to see more green in the distant mountains.
Funny, I love the blue ambiant there.
yeah, it doesnt really bother me. If im being nitpicky I think there is too much of it. Maybe bringing down the mountain blues a hair would improve it.
I would blame here amount of cyan, which can be seen in the colors of the foreground, and the problem be solved easily, with only one slider in the color balance (from cyan to red) in the PS.
If you like, you can leave cyan color in the sky.
After all, these are personal preferences.
Hi really like the overall coolness of the scene that the dominant blue tones create.
It allows the viewer to feel the atmosphere of the overall photo. I say bravo!
I think this would look cool as a black and white. You get more of a feeling of solitude.
Good image, Sebastien! It comes down to what motivated you to make the image and as Radisa says, personal preferences, but since you ask I agree with the "too blue, too cyan" comments; the image looks a bit too stark to me. For what it's worth, here's my edit of colour and tone. I may have overdone it, but I think there are appealing foreground textures which could be emphasised.
I don't know if it would have been possible, but if the path could go right to the bottom left corner without losing all those ridges in the hillside beyond, I think it could improve the already good composition - that is, take the shot from further to the right, and/or angle the camera down a bit. I've VERY CRUDELY approximated this in the second edit.
As ever, I now await annihilation by those who disagree...!
Looks more natural but looses that dramatic element yet its subjective to personal taste.
As for the trail extending to the corner: to me the original image gives you a sense of dept, somehow a symmetry between the bottom corners as they both tend to go darker and "frame" the trail.
With the trail stretching through the corner you might loose that element but you gain somewhat of a completion. As i said its subjective.
You have a point here, Maicon, about the depth and that certain symmetry and "framing" of the trail that invites us to walk along it to a vantage point at its end.
Speaking of symmetry, though, in reframing the image as I've mentioned (rather than my crude post-hoc manipulation), I would have made the whole image more asymmetric; the path would not look as curved as I've made it, and I'd have moved the far end of the path to the right.
To my eye, this image is just a little too symmetrical. Just my own tastes, of course. Still a great image as is!
Hi, I think it's typically a picture that would work nicely in black and white, playing with the hue sliders to get the look you want. That way you can separate everything and make people focus on the path, the shape of the mountains, and the grey hues in the clouds. The red filter would increase the contrast, the blue filter would increase the depth and decrease contrast, so I suggest you could play with everything a bit and see if you stumble upon a setting you like.