"To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy."
~ Henri Cartier-Bresson
This is a really great shot, the sky is really powerful. i think you might have been better to crouch just a tad in order to 'compress' the foreground into a smaller area on the image just a little, and to darken the ?ice? and brighten/saturate the grass a little more. if you want to send me the raw i'll show you what i think would help, if not i think this is a superb sky, and a really goood composition if you just crop it off at the bottom to ~ a square format, and just use the grass as a frame, not as a subject. I can tell you've switched your colour profile now (and use a polarizer) the sky colours are superb
I'm confused by the talk above and now I would like to know whether you used a polarizer or didn't use one. I love the clarity in the foreground and the way the background appears to be such a looooong way off. Personally, I wouldn't change a thing in this image.
You will be led to the knowledge of the internal things which are invisible to you, by the external things which you see before you. . . . Even so then, we can represent to ourselves in thought the Author of all that is, by contemplating and admiring the (visible) things which He has made, and ever brings into being.
- Hermes
Thanks for all of the comments. For this i did not use polarizer as i've been to cheap to buy one for my 10-20mm lens. (stupid things cost so much since they need to be the thinest kind to avoid vignetting on the wide angle). I did adjust the sky differently than i did the ground in this one using mostly curves and a channel mixer layer. The channel mixer layer was set to monochrome, and then the blending was set to overlay. That does some interesting things i don't really know how to explain (better to just give it a try:P).
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I think i like this one better than the first one, but both are great! I love the vertical arrangement, it totally adds to the mood. Great shot - into my favs!
Shanon
"...here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which grows
higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart
i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart)"