Sea cliffs
by otto22

Comment by snaffles:
Greetings from the Critique Club!

Wow, what an improvement in terms of technique from the last time I critiqued an image of yours. Always heartening to see my advice being taken seriously!

This is absolutely gorgeous - it looks like what Cuttooth would produce if he went to Iceland as this is very like his style with the focus stacking, lovely colours and contrast of dark tonal rocks with cold swirling fog/clouds, shot during a lovely warm orange/red sunrise/sunset. And that's a huge compliment, I'm sure Mark is way up there in terms of overall ribbon winners here.

Composition is great, nice high horizon, there aren't any blown-out highlights (though towards the right it does start to teeter in that direction but doesn't fall into the abyss) and you got a sheen to kill for on the rocks - that is just magical. I do believe you've found your stride, now keep it up! And congrats on a very well-deserved top ten finish, you just barely were squeezed out of an HM. Next time....;-)

Susan

Sea cliffs
by otto22

Comment by tanguera:
Really interesting colors!

Sea cliffs
by otto22

Comment by illini75:
Awesome shot

Fine trees
by otto22

Comment by pearlseyes:
Amazing. I hope to see aurora borealis in my lifetime.

Sea cliffs
by otto22

Comment by Lydia:
7 from me.

Fine trees
by otto22

Comment by Dennisheckman:
Congrats on yet another fantastic landscape master piece.

Fine trees
by otto22

Comment by snaffles:
Greetings from the Critique Club!

Always a pleasure, trying to find fault with a ribbonning image...but I'll try ;-)

Absolutely breathtaking capture of the aurora borealis. Love the front-to-back dof...or did you use focus stacking? The play of the lights on the ice especially is just fantastic; they are so fluid in the sky then look more jagged on the ice. Wonderful. Gorgeous otherworldly tones in the sky, barely any star blur...btw I assume you mean a 1/15th of a second exposure? It would seem to me that at ISO 1600 and 15 seconds you would definitely have some blown areas, but none that I can see here. Canon's ISO is the one thing about that brand that I truly envy :-)

What would I change about this image? If I were lucky enough to be there I might try something rash like a circular star blur, which would take a few minutes. If you had the lights going that night too, could make for some really trippy effects.

Keep up the great work and congrats on the yellow!

Susan

Fine trees
by otto22

Comment by HalldorIngi:
Congrats on the yellow, the show that night was magnificent!

Fine trees
by otto22

Comment by otto22:

Originally posted by marnet: Where is this in Iceland?

//wikitravel.org/en/%C3%9Eingvellir_National_Park

https://www.google.is/maps/search/This+is+Thingvellir/@64.1130949,-21.6590011,10z

And Thanks.

Fine trees
by otto22

Comment by Ivory:
So beautiful, congratulations on your yellow ribbon.