Three Fingered Jack

Nice comp and great capture of the dynamic range between shadow and sunlit mountains.

Is this an HDR?  Sort of has that color tone look. 

Nice employment of the T/S!

This does look like a blended image with the nice transition from sun to shade. Nice work.

Blended but not HDR.  Used the Nik feature of "Detail Enhancement" which works on its own if there's not to much clipping at either end of the histogram, but it can look HDR'y.  That can be minimized by darkening midtones and boosting contrast a bit. Mostly you want shadows to be shadows and there needs to be some pure black somewhere in a scene that your eye would expect to be contrasty.  I guess I didn't do enough correcting for the HDR look. 

This is very pretty. Great job processing to manage the dynamic range.

Wonderful job on the processing and the stream is a great lead in to this wonderful image, Daniel. Very nicely done. I have to ask; is Three Fingered Jack the name of the peak?

Ed

Ed:
Yes indeed.  Three Fingered Jack is in the Oregon Cascades, south of Mt Jefferson.

Daniel, This is such a pretty scene and it seems like it might make a very nice print. If anything I might wish for a comp with a bit more on the right side so the stream exit was a little more centered. Not knowing what is around there I'm thinking you made the best comp you could, and it does work fine as it is. When I first saw the small image I admit I was thinking hdr. Not that it's a bad thing but not a look I usually like. Anyways, after looking at the larger version for awhile I'm quite enjoying this. 

Nick Bristol
Lone Rock, WI

Very nice, Daniel.  I think that you did an admirable job handling the DR in this image.  My only suggestion would be to clone the rock protruding into the image bottom left.

Excellent landscape. I love the composition and colors. I also like how the lines all lead to your eye to the center. Beautiful. 

Wonderful job of handling the bright/dark light to balance out the image and still see detail in the shadows.  I agree about the slight clone or crop for rock in bottom left corner but really a minor item.  Excellent shot.

Looks like an idealic hike Daniel.  You've handled the extreme exposure very naturally.  Love the dominating view the peaks give at the head of the valley.  I can see you've done some careful composing to place the left peaks between the trees - nicely done!

This is a great image of a rarely captured mountain, Daniel.  I love the composition and the colors.  It is a tish hdr-ish for my taste, but that's of course a matter of opinion. The foreground rocks look very natural to me. The edges of the mountain itself and the trees (at the sky margins) are where I see some signs of the processing.  If you are up for it, you might consider dialing back the Nik processing just a tish.  The wildflowers on the right bank seem to have lost some detail.  I have had the same issue with Nik when using Dfine after doing other processing.  Did you use Dfine?  If so, with a less heavy hand in the color and exposure processing, Dfine might not be necessary.  Regardless, I enjoy looking down this river at TFJ.  I gotta get out there this summer.
ML

 

My thoughts on this comp are similar to Nick's - i.e., a bit more of the stream on the right would be nice, but I assume that the mountains was better centered as you composed it. Certainly a beautiful view -  everything a mountain stream should look like. I like the processing as well.