penneydude posted:

Where in Colorado were you? I live in Fort Collins, and I absolutely love Colorado sunsets, but for me they're hard to get a good shot of without looking cliche because here everyone and their mom (literally) has a stack of about a thousand lame snapshots of them.

I really like the second and third of yours though, the third especially.

Dread Head posted:

Really digging the black sky although I feel it is a bit empty at the top. Looks like quite the location where is it and what is that structure at the top?

brad industry posted:

I think what is interesting to me about these is how they lose the sense of scale and perspective with the dark skies. I would pursue it more along those lines when you're shooting, rather than as an after-the-fact processing thing.

MrFrosty posted:

This weekend I decided to drive 4 hours so I could wake up at 4am the next day and climb a drat hill. At least something good came out of it (I hope )

8th-samurai posted:

Here are a few from my recent cross country trip.

man thats gross posted:

You've probably mentioned this before, but what kind of glass are you running for most of these shots? I really like your landscape work.

Radbot posted:

Oh hells yes. Don't you DARE listen to anyone who says these are too dark. Get the color one printed on Kodak Endura Metallic and the black and white ones on true black and white paper immediately.

fenner posted:

This shot is amazing, I stole it for my desktop and everytime I tab to desktop it blows me away. Care to share your processing technique on this masterpiece?

fenner posted:

Would love it send it to fenner.no.u@googlemail.com thanks a lot and keep shooting

Radbot posted:

Whitezombi - Are you filtering these somehow (with a filter or a red-biased channel mixer selection in Photoshop)? The skies look brilliant, perhaps I'm just not used to seeing such beautiful haze-free skies here in Southern California.

Interrupting Moss posted:

That's good.

Burn the bottom area a bit, then it's great.

(or use a 5 filter in the printing, if these are film... don't think so though)

Good texture on the second one, too, though the DOF blur at the bottom is distracting.

Interrupting Moss posted:

The entire mountainous region. Specifically, the lower left area could use a bit more contrast, and the bluff in general increased in brightness a bit.

I've hacked away at it to show you; the quality would be much better if performed on a TIFF file from the RAW.

If you're really into digital B&W, Nik Software's Silver Efex Pro is excellent.

SKULE123 posted:

Interrupting Moss posted:

Split-toning look to this, less vignetting, similar structure look.

This is going to be printed and hung in a particular place, and the selenium look was going to be too cold.

Pretty happy with this.

Interrupting Moss posted:

I like this photo. Could you try a square crop? Holding up my hands it looks like it would balance nicely if you centered it to the left a bit.

Found this place randomly in northwest Oklahoma. Color or B&W?

    

I forgot to throw on the polarizer since my car was going to be towed in 15 minutes and I had to run 1.5 miles down a mountain sooooo

Interrupting Moss posted:

Fairview. Google Maps link to exact location. I found the general area by looking at topographical maps and Google street view.

Here's a better color version; I'm always conservative with colors. I still like the B&W version better.

Interrupting Moss posted:

coooooooooooool

e: okay more specifically, this does what you see a million photos TRY to do, and does it well: it makes the clouds the subject, and you can FEEL them. They have presence. The slice of Petroglyph below is probably the best way I've seen those three little mountain thing portrayed. They feel small as they are in the context of New Mexico, a footnote to the glorious sky that was around this weekend.

Really, really, like it because it's what I see when I look at that skyline from a distance, but never thought to portray it like that.

Interrupting Moss posted:

Interrupting Moss posted:

So I finally found out, two weeks later than anticipated, that I won a place in a week long access to Valles Caldera the first week of June. I have no clue what I'm doing. My only real plan is to wake up at 4AM every morning to be in place for specific shots every day, and repeat the same thing in the evening. I just ordered a few more batteries and CF cards; anyone have any other advice for this sort of thing?

Interrupting Moss posted:

Son, I haven't even been camping since I was 14, and that was in a nice prepared camping area.

I'm going to die.