"This image was taken during autumn in The Flinders Ranges in South Australia. It is a beautiful, colourful area of genuine Australian outback which offers many and varied photographic opportunites and has been a favourite part of this country for me since childhood.
I accompanied a dozen others for a photography workshop to practice and learn, especially about landscape photography.
This image was taken very early morning in a high sided gorge - that is, we were on the road which was at the bottom of Brachina Gorge, looking upwards and waiting for the rising sunlight to catch the gorgeous colour of the rock sides of the gorge.
As you can see the red-gold light on the rusty coloured rock is beautiful but I wonder if that along with the ridge lines and trees, is enough. I'd appreciate your thoughts on what might make it better or more interesting.
Fujifilm X-T4, 70-300mm lens @ 300mm, ISO 10000, f8, 1/900 ss
Light editing including cropping and colour enhancement in Lightroom."
This round’s discussion is now closed! 7 comments posted
Bob Scott
It's a promising idea bit I think it would play better with a greater range of color--more great in the trees and a deeper blue in the sky. I would get rid of the tree jutting out on the left side of the mountain
The more I look, I think cropping the lower left corner to eliminate the darker part of the slop with trees so that the picture is all about the bright rocks would make an impact Posted: 07/18/2024 04:20:02
Meredith Bain
Thanks Bob. Good point about the tree on the left, as well as your other suggestions. Posted: 07/18/2024 09:44:31
Howard Frank
I like the concept of your image, but I think there is to much blank sky and I think you could open up the rocks a bit. I played with this in Lightroom (camera raw in Photoshop) and opened up the brightness, clarity and midtones in the mountain and darkened the sky a bit. I also re-cropped the mountain and sky. I would be curious as to what you think. Posted: 07/19/2024 19:48:50
Meredith Bain
I like that better Howard. Thanks for the suggestions. Back to the editing drawing board for me. Posted: 07/24/2024 04:32:16
Delian Slater
I like your image I might have waited until the sun hit the trees in the background to catch their colors
Posted: 07/20/2024 17:54:15
Ricarda Dudek
Meredith: I agree with Bob's cropping suggestion and love what Howard did with the clarity and midtones. It always amazes me when a second set of eyes takes a great photo to a higher level of interest that just makes it "pop". Posted: 07/23/2024 21:51:26
Peter Cheung
I like the Bob's cropping version also. Beautiful colors and the pattern of the rocks. Posted: 07/30/2024 19:30:51
