Pics from unnamed vernal pool, Yosemite

Mjollnir

Just back from the Yosemite high country. It would take too long to describe where I took these, but they're from a seasonal pond I've driven by up there my whole life that I finally decided to stop at.











This last one, for the hell of it, was taken Saturday, just off the bridge over the Tuolumne River, center trail, Tuolumne Meadows, going west by about 200 meters.

magicbastarder

you looking for C&C?

Mjollnir

magicbastarder wrote: »

you looking for C&C?

Oh, duh. Yes, I am. Thanks.

magicbastarder

at the risk of sounding hideously cliched, i think some of them work work well in greyscale, or else a bit or warming up.

PostHack

They all look overcooked to me. The colours look unnatural and they are over sharpened. Looks like HDR may have been used and it doesn't work for me.

.Longshanks.

Mjollnir wrote: »

Oh, duh. Yes, I am. Thanks.

Do nothing for me im afraid. Overcooked and nothing of interest

Mjollnir

PostHack wrote: »

They all look overcooked to me. The colours look unnatural and they are over sharpened. Looks like HDR may have been used and it doesn't work for me.

How odd. I didn't do anything to the colors, except a bit more blue in the first one, used a little bit of contrast adjustment, and there is no HDR whatsoever used (I don't even have the software for it).

Steve Reddin

Hi Mjollnir,

My initial comment is that the images are too big to view, I've 32" monitor and I'm still scrolling up and down to see each in it's entirety. This does make it hard to view them properly and critique them as a result. That being said:

I'd agree with magicbastarder, they all seem to have a heavy blue tint to them and are quite cool as a result. If you have the option to change the colour temperature on your camera I'd have a look at that and make sure it's set correctly.

#4 would have the most potential for me from an artistic side, although there seems to be something funny going on with it and its sharpness, I'm not sure if the image is blurred or its suffering from compression...I'm guessing a little of both

The rest unfortunately don't work for me, I can certainly see what you were going for but I'm just not sure it's been pulled off. For example, #5 is quite an interesting composition but the reflection of the trees is too strong against the reeds, as well as taking away from them it is leaving the image very top heavy and unbalanced. This is in addition to the comments on the sharpness issue in all the images, they do look a little unnatural

#6 is quite nice, the tree and rock are nicely balanced in their position. I'd probably crop the foreground though to remove the brambles that are appearing and let the river run to the bottom right of the frame, alongside the island that appears to the right, it's a little dark and its omission won't hurt the composition too much.

Hope this helps

Steve

Thecageyone

3, 4 & 6 I like. but agree they look slightly over saturated and sharpened. I like the composition and with a slight tone-down I think they'd look great.

It's not just the blues, i think the greens look 'over-cooked' too.

magicbastarder

Steve Reddin wrote: »

I've 32" monitor and I'm still scrolling up and down to see each in it's entirety.

what res are you running at?

NakedDex

I'm wondering the same? I'm looking at them right now on a 10in netbook screen and the landscape orientated shots are only a margin bigger than I can view.

Steve Reddin

magicbastarder wrote: »

what res are you running at?

1,360 * 768

Can you see each of the pictures in their entirety on your monitor?

Steve

jpb1974

I'm running @ 1280 x 1024 on a 19" monitor and can see the pics in their entirety.

Steve Reddin

jpb1974 wrote: »

I'm running @ 1280 x 1024 on a 19" monitor and can see the pics in their entirety.

Maybe it's just the wide screen that's playing up for me then, I've only certain options to choose from and that's not one of them.

In any event, it was a minor point on the feedback for the images.

Steve

sheesh

Guys you can zoom out with most browsers these days ctrl and the minus button

first one
just not doing anything for me I can see what you are trying to do and I have seen images like it that work but this does not for some reason maybe it is the angle of the shot also the detail of the rotting wood is not clear enough to provide the contrast i think you are looking fo

second one

interesting shaped rock nice reflections

third one:

if you zoom out the shot kin of works

fourth one.

my favourite. esp the perfect reflections of the rocks.
fifth one.

another one of those shots that should work but does not seem to be
again I think it is the laqck of detail in the grass

sixth one.

I like it interesting shaped rock and trees on the left probably needed less grass in the foreground and more sky.

billbond4

I remember the last one from when I was in Yosemite three years ago, lovely place