Ghost Ranch Country IV. One Four Challenge December Week Four

Ghost Ranch Country IV, New Mexico. Copyright Joanne Mason 2014.

Here is my final image for December’s One Four Challenge. In the One Four Challenge (Initiated by Robyn G), we choose one image and do four different process edits in four successive weeks. This is the last week of the December cycle.

Starting with the original image, this week’s edit is cropped sharply to a panoramic view (which we’ve decided works best for this image). (Click image for larger – Looks Better.) All of the editing this week is done in Nik Silver Efex Pro, including a few exposure adjustments, the vignetting, and toning. The final image replicates an early film style. The style seeks to emulate the pictorialist style of the early 20th Century Photo Secessionists. (I’ve recently done a series of images in this style.)

Besides giving the scene a kind of “old west” feel, this treatment completely alters all the relationships in the image. No longer are the cliffs the main (or only) point of interest (it seems to me); now the overall fields, the road and the fenceposts converging, make up the main theme.

Love this One Four Challenge! – Great fun!  Here are the original image and all four edits for December. Tell me what you think. Comments definitely welcome!