Tuolumne Meadows in Spring

There is a lot going on in here and you did a nice job with it. Does seem a bit contrasty though in the FG.

This one is much better, however, as Ken has mentioned, it's a bit contrasty on my monitor as well. Where is this? Colorado?

A beautiful scene - the JPEG compression and aggressive sharpening really hurts the quality of the image as displayed here.

E.J.,

You hit the nail right on the head. Over the past few month I had produced progressively worse scans by trying to improve images with all kinds of unconventional twists and tweaks. Like a cook throwing every available spice onto a dish. It was fun and kinda educative too. But I got so carried away that I ignored the results.

Last weekend I finally woke up and started to revise my scanning techniques. I am now getting the results I want with only a few, simple steps, but it took a little while to arrive there. That's why I have been silent on the forum for the past few days.

I will be silent for another few days because I am leaving for a shoot on the Oregon Coast tomorrow. A rescan of this image is the first thing on my list after I'll return on Tuesday.

Nevertheless, I am glad I posted this and other bad scans here, because without the critizism of you viewers I would never have snapped out of my spicing frenzy and gotten my head straight. Thanks to all of you! This is what makes this forum valuable to me.