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Peak in a Pocket
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Peak in a Pocket

by Gary Minish

Gallery: Weekly ChallengePosted January 6, 2017126 views4 comments
Looking toward the sunlit sky at a mountain peak beyond the canyon. The contrast was pretty severe so to get any detail in the canyon walls I used the in-camera 3 exposure bracket and blend feature.  

Sony ILCE-6000, SE-55210 @ 135mm (202mm equiv.), ISO-100, f/11.0, 1/320, 3 hand-held exposures blended.

 

Comments

4 comments
Comment posted by Paul Breitkreuz on January 6, 2017 at 9:19 AM
Gary, as you pointed out this contrasty scene would be a difficult photo to balance the extreme differences. As it is you did an excellent job of making things balance out very nicely. This view obviously shares in this weeks theme with the canyon walls and mountain peak joining in on the angles of view. 
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Comment posted by Mark Seaver on January 6, 2017 at 11:53 AM
Yes, Gary, very nicely set up with the symmetric framing of that single peak.  You're exposure processing look good, especially in the larger view.  Given how monotonic this is, I wonder how a b&w version would look, even as I enjoy how the blue tones of the main peak provide a good sense of depth.
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Comment posted by David Schoen on January 6, 2017 at 1:16 PM
 I like the simplicity of this image and it took some technical know-how to put it all together.  The larger images much better.  The detail comes through in the larger image.  Good use of diagonals.
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Comment posted by Dennis Plank on January 6, 2017 at 6:40 PM
Nice, Gary.  From your description, the images are combined in-camera and you only get one image out?  Did you play with bringing out the darker areas a bit more in post processing?  With this much contrast, I think manually exposing one shot for the dark areas and another for the mountain would have given you more latitude to play with it.

The diagonals definitely come through in this one.

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