ben nevis walk

Sooty_1 (Critique Team)

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4 Nov 2011 - 9:35 AM

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I think you have been hampered here by rotten light. A little more exposure would have helped the greens in the foreground, though you might have needed a ND grad to hold texture in the white clouds (perhaps even two exposures for the land and sky, combined in PS?). Mountains are hard to do justice to, considering their splendour when you are there.

I also find my attention wandering out the right side, following the river, though without any info or EXIF data, it is hard to suggest how you might improve this. Maybe a panoramic of the mountains would work as most of the peaks look visible, and I'm interested in what is out of frame on the right skyline.

Nick

Jestertheclown

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4 Nov 2011 - 10:19 AM

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As has been said already, the light wasn't on your side here.
I agree with Nick when he says that there's a tendency for your eye to want to wander to the right as there's not a lot there in the way of a sky and the river draws you that way naturally.
Also, the image has a red/magenta cast.
I've uploaded a mod. in which I've removed the cast, de-saturated the yellow channel a little, which has toned down the greens and I've made some adjustments using the shadows/highlights tool.
I've also cropped some from the top and the LHS.
Finally, I sharpened it a little.
Hope this helps.

Bren.

Edit: My mod. has turned out a bit darker here than it was/is on my machine at home. I often have problems with mods. looking different once they're uploaded, it's a by-product of the uploading process, I suspect.