Temple of the Moon (+edit)

[Ben Egbert]

This is a sunset shot, the clouds were dramatic, but no color, so it was a natural for B&W

CC encouraged.

Here is an edit with contrast and darkness added to the foreground as suggested by Kyle.

 

[AlanLichty]

Nice - I like the way your B&W processing accentuates the exposed layering in the Temple's geology. Pretty wild clouds too.

 

[Jim Dockery]

You are becoming a B&W master Ben! This is GREAT (but take my review with a grain of salt since I'm a sucker for contrast). Of course the clouds make it, but without the temple they would be interesting, but not part of a mythical story - I can almost see Gandolf on top, waving his staff to call up the storm which he'll use to send a flash flood down upon the approaching orc army.

 

[Ben Egbert]

Nice - I like the way your B&W processing accentuates the exposed layering in the Temple's geology. Pretty wild clouds too.

Thanks Alan, I just had to make use of those clouds.

You are becoming a B&W master Ben! This is GREAT (but take my review with a grain of salt since I'm a sucker for contrast). Of course the clouds make it, but without the temple they would be interesting, but not part of a mythical story - I can almost see Gandolf on top, waving his staff to call up the storm which he'll use to send a flash flood down upon the approaching orc army.

Thanks Jim, you are always encouraging me to try B&W so here I am.

 

[Kyle Jones]

That sky is fantastic! I would take a look at darkening the foreground and maybe adding some contrast too it. That may frame the rock formation nicely within that and the great sky.

 

[Ben Egbert]

Thanks Kyle, I will give that a try. See new edit above. Thanks Kyle it does look better.

 

[JimFox]

This is so cool Ben! Love those clouds! I don't even remember them now, but what you captured has me wanting to go see what I had shot for sunset.

Your edit is awesome, those few touches really made all the difference.

And I agree, you are starting to get really adept at B&W. I guess we are all picking up new things? I have been doing Astro and IR and you now are doing B&W. I think it's awesome.

 

[Jim Dockery]

Good advice from Kyle, I like the edit.Now that I see it I think you could take it further, darkening the ground even more with a GND pulled up from the bottom for a really dramatic rendering.

 

[Ben Egbert]

This is so cool Ben! Love those clouds! I don't even remember them now, but what you captured has me wanting to go see what I had shot for sunset.

Your edit is awesome, those few touches really made all the difference.

And I agree, you are starting to get really adept at B&W. I guess we are all picking up new things? I have been doing Astro and IR and you now are doing B&W. I think it's awesome.

Thanks Jim, I can learn new things, but I am still an old dog

Good advice from Kyle, I like the edit.Now that I see it I think you could take it further, darkening the ground even more with a GND pulled up from the bottom for a really dramatic rendering.

Thanks Jim I am a bit shy about adding too much contrast, but I see it works in B&W, it will take a while for me to get the eye for this.

 

[Jameel Hyder]

Good work with the edit Ben.