Grey Tetons

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Austin Photographer John R. Rogers shot this photograph. Check out the website www.JohnRRogers.com for more information & please make a comment .
The last time I was in Jackson Hole Wyoming this great storm swept across the Grand Tetons. I shot some photos of the storm but never really liked any of the images. For me, these images just didn’t pop. At first, I felt they were all too monochromatic. The colors were all too muted for my taste. If anything is obvious about me from looking at my images, it’s no real secret that I like chroma. I think it is because it’s the way I see the world. It was a grey stormy day, but my images just didn’t reflect the scene the way I remembered it. Also it was before I shot virtually everything in brackets from a tripod in case I wanted HDR post processing as an option for the images. So, the images just sorta sat on my hard drive waiting to be rediscovered. When I ran across this image today I had a bit of an epiphany; Since the image is somewhat monochromatic, make it truly monochromatic. And so, by pulling out all the color and with a bit of dodging, burning & contrast enhancement, I was finally able to have the photograph more closely match the image in my memory.
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Great scene, light, clouds and illuminated rain.
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Wow! You mean the saturation slider works in the other direction too?
Great shot, John. I love the tonal recession in the mountains. Very nice indeed.
Great use of what you once rejected as bland!! Wonderful
Love all of teh shades!
John, great treatment! Love the different shades of grey!
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Really impressive. Beautiful and dramatic shot at the same time. Excellent process
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Love the image; i feel like the foreground may be competing for attention too much with the mountains. i had to look very closely to figure out what was in the foreground…i felt a little distracted. beautiful image.
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Lovely shot… thanks for posting
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wonderful!!!
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