My Bryce Obsession

[bryanj87]

My obsession with Bryce Canyon continues. Thoughts and feedback welcome.

Do you prefer color....
http://www.bryanbzdula.com/newpics/albums/userpics/Bryce-19a.jpg
or Black and White?
http://www.bryanbzdula.com/newpics/albums/userpics/Bryce-19b.jpg

[Bill Boehme]

Something in between.

The colors, especially the sky are too saturated (even the white clouds are blue) for my taste. The B&W is too busy with strong light and dark tones and either needs to be simplified by cropping or toning down the contrasts to get more middle gray tones.

[jdizzle]

I like both Bryan. I would bring it out more since it was midday. Good composition.

[bryanj87]

Thanks for the feedback guys.

[curiousgeorge]

Definitely colour.

I don't think this works in b&w at all because there's not enough contrast between the lights and the darks, so it loses clarity, it almost blurs into one. It's also way too dark.

[Dan_S]

The colour i prefer definately. I agree witht 'curiousgeorge'

[Bill Boehme]

I made a few adjustments in ACR to the images. In the color version, I color balanced the image assuming that they should be some shade of gray, then tweaked the color on the rocks in the foreground to sharpen the detail a bit, and and lastly reduced the saturation of the blue sky slightly.

While doing this, I noticed something that might be a dust bunny in the clouds -- check your other images to see if it is there or if this is just a feature in the clouds.

In the black and white version, I expanded the histogram to give a wider range between light and dark details.

These are just my personal preferences on changes to improve the pictures, but that doesn't mean very much.

[curiousgeorge]

Bill's B&W is much better.