Ok so I know this is off topic but I wanted to do this for a while. I really like Ansel Adams stuff and thought I would compare his original shot of half dome in Yosemite National Park and a shot I took from the same spot in Yosemite. I took this photo about 6 years ago and it was taken on fuji valvia I think..and then scanned..I tried to get the contrast between his black and white shots with taking my shot in autumn when the colours are out in full force. Any crits are welcome..
2 comments:
Hi Jason
i really like the way the Velvia has given those punchy colours a boost. My personal preference, particulalrly if you are trying to get the same kind of tonal contrast as Adams, would be to darken teh blue of the sky. At the moment the detail of Half dome sort of blends into the colour of the sky. Obviously, one can't go back and reshoot that easily :) but I'm really interested in seeing more of the reflections in the water (in other words to have included more of the tree reflections). The pine on the left top is also breaking the image's colour and symmetry sadly. Nice shot all in all.
E
I really enjoy 'then and now' type stuff. Thanks for putting these up. And what would a comment be without disagreement! For me I am less disturbed by Emil's pine at left, than I am by the yellow Beech (just tossing out botanical names really. I don't have a clue what tree it is!), but it is the yellow one at right. I love the way it frames the image at the top but the dense yellow blob at centre interferes with my preferred viewing pleasure of the rear tree's reflections. So maybe I do agree with Emil after all!
Paul
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