This is a great start. The scene is wonderful. It definitely needs some work, though. Digital camera images generally capture a lot of shadow detail than you see. Your exposure is perfect for the highlights. If you lighten the forground a bit I think this will start to get really, really good. I might also crop a bit of the sky out. The clouds are nice, but I think the overall composition has the mountains too centered.
I'm very happy to see this photo here. It's beautiful. Hopefully my criticism will encourage you experiment a bit with post-processing. For me, it's the difference between nice pictures and great photos. The greatness happens either in the darkroom or on the computer - depending on whether you're shooting film or digital.
Photo-John
thank you for you knid words. I do take your comments as positive criticism.
I only point and shoot at the moment but have asperations for bigger and better things.
Your quite right, i don't do any enhancement of my digital pictures - what you see is what i took. I think my next purchase will be some decent enhancement software - do you have any suggestions?
I only use Photoshop, and I'm sure you know it's very expensive. One of the best things about it is it allows me to make adjustments that don't affect the original file, and I can use masks. That would make it possible for lighten only the dark foreground in this photo. I think the top looks near perfect. But live I said, Photoshop is expensive - especially to start with.
