Grand Sentinel + rp

I love this scene Preston. It's a tree to match the mountains and the boulder. I like this a lot as posted.

With regard to the Cyan, I'm using a current Chrome browser on a Macbook Pro with retina display and would say I'm seeing a little too much cyan in the sky and I saw it before reading your comment. It's not enough to bother me much though. Part of the reason that I still haven't gone ahead and bought a NEC professional monitor and color calibrated it is because practically none of the people I send images to have anything resembling color calibrated monitors and most of them are running some version of IE. Unless I start trying to sell my images, which is very unlikely, I just can't justify the cost.

pat

The large version is very nice Preston doing justice to the tree and the mountain. I like this a lot. Chet

I am partial to trees and I really like this one. Great light and composition.

Oh, do I ever like this scene, Preston! The tree is magnificent and a worthy subject against the mountains and among the boulders. Lots to look at but at all overwhelming. A pleasant journey, indeed. Thanks for the treat!

What amazes me is such a perfect looking Cottonwood survives in such a harsh terrine, I like this alot Preston, excellent job with the processing.
John

Preston, what a healthy looking cottonwood. As usual they always take advantage of growing where three is any bit of runoff in this gorge where it is located.
The composition works nicely especially with LPP in the visible BG at the URHC. The selected processing looks darn good to me. If the cyan, I'm on Firefox latest as of yesterdays update, is not what you want obviously you can color select the sky and push the Hue bar to the right a bit. Otherwise......good to go!...

Well balanced and love the peak peaking through. I might darken the shadows a bit,looks like a slight lack of contrast. On a work monitor, so may be better on the proper viewing set up.

The cottonwood has quite the view here, Preston. I really am enjoying the details and textures to enjoy in the large version along with the stately tree. I too am seeing a bit of cyan in the sky, but take that with a grain of salt as I am on IE.

Ed

Thanks for your comments, everyone!

I went back to the master file and did the following:

*Darkened the blue in the sky just a bit.
*Reduced the cyan saturation in the sky
*Increased the blue saturation in the sky
*Deepened the shadows in the foreground.

These were all small adjustments.

I am still seeing the cyan in the sky in IE, but it looks better, I think, than the OP. Again, it looks fine in Fire Fox.

Any further suggestions will be appreciated.

--P

On my Macbook Pro with retina display running the current version of Chrome the sky looks perfect to me. Same for FF. I don't have IE for the Mac loaded and probably never will and when I retired from systems I got rid of my Windows based pcs so I can't look at this in IE. From what I'm seeing here though, all your changes were slight improvements - very slight but improvements none the less.

pat

Nice tree portrait. I like how the boulders and mountain peak compliment each other.

Preston, I like this shot a lot. Wonderful comp and feel with a great background. Viewing in Chrome I see the cyan tint in the sky too. The repost is better but still might have just a little to much of a cyan tint. I don't have fire fox on my computer right now so can't say about that. Really nice image that I very much enjoy.

Nick Bristol
Lone Rock, WI

Wonderful contrast between the oak and the surrounding granite. The repost is much better; nicely done.

The repost is a fantastic portrayal of royal mature tree Preston. I would love to see this printed large!! The tree is really providing a sweet contast to the rest of the scene. Thanks for sharing this image!!!

Hi Preston, this is a super image. I love the comp, color and textures. Excellent work and really nicely done

Now, this is how the Eastern Sierra needs to be portrayed. A striking image depite the subtle colors, which goes a long way to show the deft touch of the person behind its creation.