How to make something look large

eagle_I wrote:

This comment immediately took me back to my first, "Oh WOW! This looked SUPER when I took the picture but what came back from the film lab (the print) is just trees and rocks. Where's the FEELING?"

For me it was a view through tall pines from a hiking trail on the side of a steep ridge. The spectacular view that took my breath was another tree covered steep ridge about a mile away. It's too bad my old film or our new digital cameras can't capture the perfume of sage or pine trees. Nor can it record sun warming your shoulders. From my memory a real life scene like yours is one that is absorbed by every pore of the body!

I look at your sweeping panorama in your gallery by enlarging top to bottom so it nearly fills my 30" Dell monitor then used lower scroll bar to go side to side. "Reading" left to right I first take in five planes. Five layers of dimension. First the out of focus scrub in the foreground then in focus sage and then WONDERFUL red rock formations. The color contrast POPS! between the red rock and blue sky background. Oh yeah! And the fourth plane is the distant blue hazed hills. Then I consider the sky as another, the fifth plane.

So on the rocks my eyes start exploring. At the magnification I'm viewing the rocks don't look especially sharp (Clouds seem sharper) but their sculpting and texture is very attractive. Then ... it's ... Faces! I see faces .... then animals ... including an elephant ... Yeah! They're hiding in folds and facets of geography! Amazing! Now I'm panned far right and here the view opens up so I'm prompted to take it all in and to ponder yonder. The kind of zig-zaggy back n forth eye leading planes slowly steers me to eventually stare off into space ... to infinity.

I'm relaxing in my easy chair so I can't smell sage or feel sun on my shoulders, but I still enjoyed your pic! THANKS for sharing it!

Mark

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