Would you like to share the colour version of this with us please?   Posted: 06/11/2022 08:40:22

Attached is the color version for Jamie's June entry.   Posted: 06/13/2022 02:00:58

Hey Jamie, I took a long look at your submission. I love black and white landscapes. Yours has a nice feel and it made me want to put a jacket on (nice when you can feel an image). I am glad Andrew asked for the original. I looked at it and it was very blue (the color) I worked on the tempreature and did some minor cropping and used the highlights to enhance the sky and then went in the selective mask in Adobe Camera Raw, and lightened the foreground along the water. I then opened it in Color efex and played with the tonality. I then opened it in Silver Efex and applied some structure. I went back to Adobe Camera Raw and looked at the black and white presets, but liked Silver efex better. I upened up the clarity slider to make the water look wetter (is that a word?). So here is what I came up with. Your black and white image was very good and set a great mood, but It seemed a little flat, so I punched it up. Just my take. Thanks for sharing. don't be afraid to push your sliders, if you are using Photoshop or lightroom. you can always go back.   Posted: 06/15/2022 10:34:34

I love what black and white does to the drama of clouds and what it does for the snow on the mountains. Don's suggestions are awesome and helps balance the picture very well.
I really love your leading lines and movement through the picture. Well seen.   Posted: 06/17/2022 07:59:07

I think you've done a good treatment of the mono version (nice crop), but I think I prefer Don's version.
Thanks for sharing the original. I like the colour version but not as much. I think it has a blue cast (put it through "auto WB" in Lightroom as opposed to "as shot") and I think it is 1 stop underexposed, so still worth a look as a colour image.   Posted: 06/19/2022 12:32:14

Another comment, at the top left corner is a grey cloud with a couple of dark spots underneath it. Probably perfectly natural but it catches the eye and I just wonder about cloning them out. Just a thought.   Posted: 06/19/2022 12:36:58

  Posted: 06/23/2022 15:32:52

Jamie, I really like your image which is iconic in black and white. My taste, I would lighten it slightly to imply a sunlit day with passing thunderhead clouds.

I think the original color version also has some possibilities after some post processing.

I like Don Hill's comments because he goes so far in his post processing. It challenges me to do more.   Posted: 06/24/2022 09:48:21