Frozen Dawn

Hi Hisham - nicely done here, I like the subject and the composition a lot.  My only recommendation would be to see if you can brigthen up the foreground (with bison) a bit as it looks under exposed relative to the horizon.

Cheers,

Joe

Hisham,

a very moody image and what I like especially about it is the good integration of the landscape. It says a lot about the conditions at the time you made the photo. Well done.

I really like this, Hisham!  The light levels are very realistic which sets the mood of the scene and I especially like how you composed the landscape around the bison.  It shows the animal in the context of it's environment and makes for a very pleasing scene!  I don't know that I would do anything different with it except maybe open up the shadows around the bison's face just a tiny bit.

A very fine image. A classic 'animal-in-its-environment' shot. The snow and the beautiful sunrise add something extra special. My only suggestion is to perhaps lighten the shadows a bit so the face of the bison is easier to see? Otherwise, wonderful. I love it!

Hi Hisham,

This image has lots of potential and agree with the other reviewers comments about pulling more detail out of the shadows. Other than that the other elements of the image work well in showing the toughness of nature.........................Jim

Love the light, mood and composition here - my kind of image!
I agree with lightening the face a tad?

Thanks for the feedback!
Here's another frame taken seconds later with more light added. I couldn't push the shadows anymore on the original without major noise issues.

Cheers,

Hisham.

Hi Hisham,

I agree with all the others in liking this scene overall - a very nice "animal in its environment" (enviroscape) of a bison. I prefer the re-post over the original.

While I was obviously not with you at the time of the shot, it appears to me that the shaded region is a little heavy on the magenta end of the spectrum. I've noticed many, many times that when shooting sunrise (or sunset) scenes - and ESPECIALLY snowy ones - the shaded regions take on a colour-cast that is exaggerated (and almost always too cool). Although our cameras have become MUCH better at get WB "right" in scenes, when capturing scenes that have full light (like your sky here) and shaded regions they struggle. If this were mine I'd experiment with selectively warming up the shaded region here (definitely not much, but I think a tweak would make a world of difference).

One final note: Please don't take my comment above as negative - many may find the cooler version of the shot (i.e., your posted shot) MORE appealing than one with a warmer foreground. All depends on one's post-processing goal - going for the most aesthetically pleasing shot OR the one that replicates the original scene most closely (they're not always one and the same thing).

Cheers...

Brad

Hey Brad,
I must admit I liked the otherworldly look with a cold foreground but you're probably right that it wasn't very faithful to the actual scene. Here is a version with less magenta and more warmth. It does have the benefit of homogenizing the scene rather than creating a  extremely warm and extremely cold area.

Cheers,

Hisham.