North Face

I posted this in the critique gallery, and thus, all negative comments are welcomed and encouraged. I can assure you that you will not hurt my feelings. I have very thick skin. Of course, if you have something positive to add, that is okay too. In either case, I would love to hear the why part, that is, why you hate it or why you like it.

Every year I try to allocate 20% of my film to try experimental images that I have never done before. This is one of those images, and I am not sure if it works myself.

It's a striking image, lots of texture.

If you're looking for criticism... there's quite a bit of fall off on the right side and little bit on the left. I don't know if that's an artificat of the scan. If you're not against cropping, the line of trees on the bottom doesn't do anything for me. At anyrate, it's very impressive work.

It seems otherwordly, the colors. To then read that it was real boggles my mind. At that point I'm very impressed, and I want to know more. So I think that right there makes this an obscure winner.

Ghostcount, your comments are noted, and I agree with the suggested cropping. I try to do as much editing in the field, to minimizing any changes I have to make in the darkroom. Cropping is usually something I think long and hard about because my biggest sellers are 20x50 panoramics. The more I crop the bigger the enlargement I have to do, and the softer the image is.

Perry, the actual print is done on glossy paper, and emanates a creamy warm yellow light from the setting sun trying to punch through the thick fogged sky cover. It was visually overwhelming what I witnessed, and it was there in the final print. Unfortunately, the scanner did not capture the sense of warm light in the print. Within a few minutes of taking this photograph, the thick fogged sky cover turned to a medium magenta pink and the rocks were casted in a subtle blue black color as the sunset matured. I did photograph that scene as well replicating this with exact same setup, and it will be my next print to explore.