Spotlight on the Peaks 1

Gallery: Man & NaturePosted November 2, 2014144 views3 comments

This is a sunrise view from Baxter Mountain in the Adirondack Forest Preserve. The village of Keene, NY is visible in the valley on the right side of this scene. This is most of a 5-frame panorama, so there is lots of room to crop. I'd appreciate your advice about cropping this, as well as any other comments you may have.

A tight vertical crop of this scene (cropping out the village) Crop 3, is in the Landscape Gallery, and I'll post Crop 2 tomorrow in this gallery.

THANKS in advance for your advice.

Canon 5D3
Canon 24-105mm.; Circ. Pol.
0.6 sec. @ f/16; ISO 100
Five vertical frames stitched in PS CC

Comments

3 comments

Comment posted by D.A. Edwards on November 2, 2014 at 7:40 PM

I guess the obvious portion to crop would be the lower right but every crop that I try ends up removing some very nice feature of the image. I wouldn't want to lose the bottom of the snag nor would I want to lose the bright yellow and red foliage on the right edge. One thing that I think I might deal with is the bright spot on the right side of the mountains... a distraction easily cloned away. Just beautiful Wayne.

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Comment posted by D.A. Edwards on November 3, 2014 at 6:00 PM

Whoops, I meant the bright spot on the LEFT side of the mountains. Sorry for any confusion.

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Comment posted by Wayne Jones on November 3, 2014 at 7:39 PM

No problem, Dave. Confusion is my normal state anyway. Actually, I'm glad you got mixed up, because I found an area on the right that actually was too bright, so I fixed it in the next version, which I just posted, so Thanks!

As for the bright spot on the LEFT, that's a slide, which is a fairly common sight in the High Peaks Wilderness Area of the Adirondacks. Except for a few peaks above treeline, the Adirondacks are completely covered by forests and lakes. Over the years, a number of very wet weather events have caused huge landslides, where thousands of tons of forest -- trees, soil, animals and all -- simply slid off the steeper slopes. Adirondack slides are parts of the landscape that I would not dream of cloning out. Here's a closer view of some of the slides in the photo above.

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