Palouse Morning

[Jameel Hyder]

Alan's images from Palouse made me dig up my archives. I ended up reprocessing this image and planning to print it later this week. Shot a couple of years ago. This is early morning light on the fields, taken about this time of the year.

C&C Welcome as always.

 

[Jameel Hyder]

Would love to hear any edit/processing suggestions before I print it.

 

[JimFox]

Hey Jameel,

This is sure very cool. I am glad Alan inspired you to pull this one out and edit it again.

Overall this looks great I think. I might crop just a hair off the top, it kind of feels cut off up there. The other thing would be to look at adding more contrast. But, I imagine that early morning light was soft and that's what you have portrayed here well, but... there for me is still the what would it look like question with more contrast. I am not sure I would like it more, but I would try it to see.

I keep getting tempted to run up there and shoot the Palouse... I am heading back to Utah and Colorado in a few days, but maybe I should head north instead of east...

 

[Dean]

Jameel,
Really neat, before i read Jim’s comments I thought the same thing about the contrast. We are talking fine tuning here.. it is beautiful morning light however it has a slightly washed out feeling . I would play with several layers of added over all contrast or even a slight drop to over all exposure and some added contrast. Set up a contact sheet with several versions and see how it looks on paper. Which depending on the type of paper you use will also have an effect on the end result. No points off for some artistic interpretation for the print its a really cool comp.
Regards,
Dean

 

[MonikaC]

I love the colors & shadows. I don't get a washed out feeling from this, but then, I don't think that everything needs to "pop" to be print worthy. As far as Jim's crop suggestions, have you tried a 16:9? Do you have a home printer? That's a really good way to proof for print.

 

[AlanLichty]

You had more green fields to work with than I had. I like the result.

The Palouse can be quite hazy at least from what I was shooting and I found I had to watch the histograms carefully to get full white and blacks in the scene. This feels like it could use just a bit more help on the blacks which would address the contrast comments above.

 

[Douglas Sherman]

I like this palette, Jameel. It has wonderful tones. The only thing I might do is to dehaze it just a bit and crop off just a sliver from the top where there is a break from the hills to the distant plain.

 

[Ben Egbert]

I am with Alan here, just a bit more black. Cropping is optional to me, but I prefer a 16x9 aspect ratio.

 

[Jameel Hyder]

Thanks for the comments and suggestions. Will try them and see how it compares.