B&W Mont Blanc

[SFTPhotography]

_DSC8025 by Stephen Taylor, on Flickr

Finally after months of ignoring the big halo on the image and the sensor dirt on the camera I properly re-did this with some helpful critique regarding the crop from another forum.

 

[viv1969]

Awful..hideous.
Kidding.... Lovely shot, Steve.

 

[Andrew Moore]

_DSC8025 by Stephen Taylor, on Flickr

Finally after months of ignoring the big halo on the image and the sensor dirt on the camera I properly re-did this with some helpful critique regarding the crop from another forum.

Which forum? PM if you prefer

Looks splendid by the way!

 

[R0bb0]

Nice,I'd have has a little more contrast but that's just personal taste, regardless it's cracker.

 

[SFTPhotography]

Which forum? PM if you prefer

Looks splendid by the way!

Photographyforum.org

Contrast wise it's well ramped up but the sun was pretty high in the sky

 

[Andrew Moore]

Photographyforum.org

Contrast wise it's well ramped up but the sun was pretty high in the sky

Seems godaddy is selling that domain lol.. still, superb pic!

 

[MattyW]

Black and white aint my thing, but its a good shot of some peachy mountains.
I know what Robbo says about the contrast, it looks to me like the shadows are similarly dark on some of the lit faces, compared with some that are in shade.
Its beyond my pay grade in processing, but I'd imagine you could selectively work on the shadows to replicate the natural contrast some more?

 

[SFTPhotography]

I've fiddled with it a bit

_DSC8013 (1) by Stephen Taylor, on Flickr

 

[NeilA1975]

Thats rather nice Steve, great work as usual.

 

[G.K.Jnr.]

Very nice shot Steve, well suited to mono, and a really nice bit of PP work.

George.

 

[Nick Livesey]

An amazing scene but not enough going on atmosphere wise to excite me, a record shot? I also think it needs a little slice taking off the right hand side

 

[SFTPhotography]

An amazing scene but not enough going on atmosphere wise to excite me, a record shot? I also think it needs a little slice taking off the right hand side

Fair enough. Sometimes, for me, the subject is the atmosphere. It was a bright sunny day, just the sort that I like

I too have thought about cropping more from the right to remove some of the snow covered ridge, but then you start to cut off bits of the rock face from the third "peak" etc.

I've given it a go thouugh

_DSC8013 by Stephen Taylor, on Flickr

Edit, I got the toning wrong in the last one

 

[alfbranch]

Nice shot Steve working well in mono

 

[R0bb0]

I think the crop is fine, I've never messed with other peoples images before and it's not easy with such a low res image, anyway hope you don't mind, It's already a fine image - I'd have just added a little more contrast ..... ?

 

[Stuart Mc]

I like the view but it looks a shade undercooked PP wise to me, needs more contrast it's a bit on the flat side.

 

[SFTPhotography]

Interesting comments here. I can see in @R0bb0 edit the contrast has just nade it quite dark and heavy feeling. Impact wise sure it has more but the scene in reality wasn't a high contrast one, it was taken a good few hours before sunset, around 3pm when sunset was around 8pm. Maybe a slight increase in contrast, but not as much as in the alternate rendition.