First time post, Landscape at Glacier Park

[Maxiecat]

Olympus E-500, Focal length 14mm, 1/125 sec., F8.0, ISO 100

So give your best shot, What can I do to improve this?

[Coyotepsych]

Wow! What a gorgeous scene, and that reflection is captured beautifully!!

The only thing I can think is that I might like to see a little less sky, with the mountains in the more upper third and the tree line up a bit higher then as well. Just a thought to try out and see if that changes the impact. Also, you could play with hue and saturation a bit to up the wow factor even more.

Gorgeous, though. thank you for sharing it!!

[ribkaje]

Wow indeed! Beautiful picture. I'd crop it a little at the bottom to remove the white bit at lower left hand corner (or prob clone it out). Very good picture. Great job!

Oh and welcome to DPS.

[thingy]

Clean! Bright! Sharp! ... Anyone for a dip?

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[flomaster]

I hope you dont mind, but this is my take on your photo

I cropped a bit of sky out, and water.
fiddles with curves make the sky a bit more blue

[uvsub]

Flomaster, I just finished a copy of this in CS3 and it an identical version of what you proposed...great minds bla, bla, bla.

Seriously Maxiecat, this is one gorgeous composition! I absolutely love it. You've done a great job here. In formal composition a dead center horizon is suggested as ideal for a shot demonstrating symmetry, and that is what you have here. You do what makes you happy though. Blow this up and put this keeper in a frame.

If you are able to access this area again, try shooting the exact scene at dawn or sunset, depending on the direction this faces. You might just get a once in a lifetime shot begging to be sold.

PS. How can I get to this place?

[matthewchj]

Maxiecat, welcome.

Lovely shot. Absolutely love the reflection in the water.

[ELAY]

I echo everything that has gone before.

One suggestion -- try running a local contrast enhancement, and you may find that you cut down a bit on the "haze" on the background mountains and gets you deeper colour there.

I think the most popular way of doing LCE is to run the unsharp mask with very high radius settings (like 50 pixels), a small amount (10-20%) and 0 threshold. Here's a tutorial.

EL

[flomaster]

Originally Posted by ELAY

I echo everything that has gone before.

One suggestion -- try running a local contrast enhancement, and you may find that you cut down a bit on the "haze" on the background mountains and gets you deeper colour there.

I think the most popular way of doing LCE is to run the unsharp mask with very high radius settings (like 50 pixels), a small amount (10-20%) and 0 threshold. Here's a tutorial.

EL

EL I just took the photo I fiddled with and did the unsharp mask. and wow the trees popped out with more detail as did the mountains.

[Maxiecat]

I've cropped it a little, and played with the colours. Do you think its better like this? Comments please.
This is Lake Josephine just a short disance from Many Glacier Lodge on the east side of the park. Thanks for all the positive comments so far.