New Snow On The Tetons

Gallery: LandscapePosted December 2, 2015140 views5 comments

The high level Jet Stream creates Cirrostratus fibratus and Cirrocumulus stratiformis high level clouds while at mountain top level Stratocumulas clouds appear and disappear like ghost as winds blow around the mountain peaks. Rain and snow from the night before has cleared all the haze from the air giving us an increadibly clear view of the peaks.

While processing shots I did in Jackson this fall I ran across this forgotten gem. To fully appreciate this image one needs to view with high resolution viewer available on my web page. (Use the Purchase Print option to navigate to page where you can view high res. Click on the photo to go to high res view.) Would make an excellent wall mural. Zooming in to maximum magnification in high resolution viewer on 24" monitor is approximately equivalent to viewing a 8' x 20' wall mural from 3ft away.

This image is made up of 36 individual HDR shots from a 3 shot RAW bracketed set shot at f-11, ISO 100, 1/60th, 1/320th & 1/13th sec. Canon 5D3 & 70-200mm lens @ 95mm mounted on Gigapan Epic Pro. Sept 18, 2015. Processing was: 1, Camera RAW conversion to TIF. HDR processing was done using Oloneo Photo Engine. Stitching was done using Kolor Autopano Giga. Final crop in Photoshop.

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964 Megapixels
11400 x 28200 pixels
38" x 94" 300 ppi original image size

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Comments

5 comments

Comment posted by John Tobias on December 3, 2015 at 12:42 AM

John, I went to your web site and found this photo, but to me something just does not look right. Maybe it is just too big to view on a small monitor. Like the subject.

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Comment posted by John Freeman on December 3, 2015 at 11:28 AM

Thanks John for your input. Perhap you could elaborate a little more on what doesn't look right. Small monitor shouldn't be issue. Only thing I can think of is that if your internet connection is slow or it is older computer it may take a few moments to download the full resolution of the image. It may start out looking very pixelated until it calculates the full resolution view.

Registered on September 27, 2013, 16 Posts, 33 Comments

Comment posted by Ana on December 3, 2015 at 12:36 PM

The detail is amazing in this photo. Viewing the photo as a whole, I'm not sure the tree line being where it is works for me. Personally I'd probably crop a bit off the bottom, although I can imagine that if this was printed "life-size" the scale would change the experience quite a bit. I also wonder if it would benefit from selectively introducing a little more contrast in certain areas like the sky where the HDR has flattened things out.

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Comment posted by gary phillips on December 4, 2015 at 12:46 AM

Nice look at the Tetons, John. I lived and worked int he Tetons for 30 years and am quite familiar with the moods and colors. For me, this just has too much of an HDR feel and look to it. I appreciate the amount of precision required to produce an image like this. However, I think sometimes, it can appear over produced and that's the vibe I get. Additionally there are some tree limbs protruding into the frame left side that I would remove. Not something that really works for me, sorry.

Registered on October 24, 2013, 185 Posts, 4136 Comments

Comment posted by John Freeman on December 4, 2015 at 5:05 PM

Gary Phillips -- Yes, I tend to agree. I find that many of the photographers that are actually selling their work tend to push colors, contrast etc. to way beyond natural feel. Seems that the buying public like the exagerated colors and contrasts. This project was an effort to compete with that look. I don't care for the HDR look when pushed too far and to my personal taste what I did was "too far". This image is a rework that is not HDR which better matches reality. Curious which one folks prefer?

Registered on September 27, 2013, 16 Posts, 33 Comments