Posted by Tom Kloster on August 10, 2007 at 1:13 AM
Hiked up to the tarns below McNeil Point last night - I had a good feeling about the clouds breaking up, and after taking "fog" photos of flowers for about an hour, voila! The clouds burned off nicely. If you've shot this area, you know the drill -- difficult lighting at any time. This is another composite of two images, with the break running roughly diagonally from URC to LLC. Also tried some GND shots, but was disappointed in how they turned out. Comments and suggestions welcome, as always!
Posted by Jim Turner on August 10, 2007 at 10:40 AM
Very nice capture, Tom. I've been up to McNeil Point so I know what you mean by the lighting problems. Good job!!
Jim
Posted by Curtis Knight on August 11, 2007 at 12:21 AM
I like it Tom. the right side's a little dark on my monitor, but that's a minor nit...
Posted by Mike Stovall on August 11, 2007 at 7:29 PM
I love that hike, haven't been up there since I picked up a camera, so I can only imagine the difficulty in the exposure, but I'm sure it is difficult by the look of the shadow area. I wouldn't have known this was a composite without your description. Good work!
Nice light! Definitely helps recall the emotions of walking through a meadow during the evening.
Posted by Tom Kloster on August 12, 2007 at 7:43 PM
Thanks, all. Looking at this again, I think I could have toned down the square rock on the far side of the tarn, in addition to working on the shadows a bit.
On the topic of blended images, I started quite a debate (unintended!) last summer on the Portland Hikers site by posting a step-by-step where I had merged the foreground from a morning image and the background from an evening image. I quite liked the results, but several found it highly unethical to merge images from different times of day! I didn't share that worry, and in fact, plan to re-create the image at some point (this was from images taken several years ago with my first "pro-sumer" digital camera). I'm not sure it would be appropriate to post here, but here's the link to the image.
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Olympus E-300, 14-54mm lens at 15mm, polarizer, 2-images roughly 1 stop apart.
Jim
On the topic of blended images, I started quite a debate (unintended!) last summer on the Portland Hikers site by posting a step-by-step where I had merged the foreground from a morning image and the background from an evening image. I quite liked the results, but several found it highly unethical to merge images from different times of day! I didn't share that worry, and in fact, plan to re-create the image at some point (this was from images taken several years ago with my first "pro-sumer" digital camera). I'm not sure it would be appropriate to post here, but here's the link to the image.
Tom