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This picture has become one of my favorites due to its bleak frigid appearance. I've done little post with it and the colors are pretty much what I saw at the time. What say yea? Is it too dark? It sure seems to evoke some dark feelings in me !

 

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Interesting image...I think I might crop it in a bit tighter and run the water line along the lower 1/3rd line but I definitely see why you like it!



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I agree with TBonz.  Removing some of the foreground would be beneficial.  To me, the glacier doesn't really contrast with the water or the fog, so I personally would like to see the exposure on the glacier bumped up a bit, or perhaps just the shadows, but I definitely would want to keep the water to be as dark as it is, so I would recommend only applying the change to the glacier itself.  Nice shot!



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As emccarthy25 said, you need to lighten up the glacier a bit to provide more contrast between it and the water/sky. Also, as Tbonz said, the water line shouldn't be centered, so it needs a bit of a crop.

 

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This picture has become one of my favorites due to its bleak frigid appearance. I've done little post with it and the colors are pretty much what I saw at the time. What say yea? Is it too dark? It sure seems to evoke some dark feelings in me !

 

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I believe your description of bleak and frigid pretty well covers all of your bases.  The feeling I get is a picture in my mind of survivors of the Titanic sinking, rowing into the photo.  That is about as bleak and frigid as anyone can go.  I like the whole arrangement.  Well done and thanks so much for sharing. 

 

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Better?

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Yes, the crop helps a lot but I would still lighten up just the glacier a bit.

 

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For what it's worth from my amateur view point, I like the ice floating in the foreground.  I would crop the top and left, on the left up to the small ice floating close to the glacier and about an equal percentage off the top.  As mentioned by others brighten it up just a little.



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Yes, the crop helps a lot but I would still lighten up just the glacier a bit. --Ron

 

 

I agree! Two more points.

  1. Did you pull out the best of the recorded data? The DR seems
    to be insufficient. Maybe a DRL tweak could resolve that.
  2. The shot has a very dramatic light to it but the glacier does not
    look like it is in focus… maybe a front focus issue?