Bald Mountain Autumn | Nov '07

Another B/W version of Mount Hood, this time from the slopes of Bald Mountain, near Lolo Pass. In this case, the scene was pretty stark and brown, and the north slope of Yocum Ridge (right side of image) impossibly dark, so the B/W decision was really the only option for resurrecting an image. Hopefully, I've brought out enough detail in those shadows -- I tend to not mind very dark areas, but think I'm probably in the minority on that front.

Comments and suggestions welcome!

Olympus E-510 (my first day with the new body), 11-22mm lens at about 12mm, polarizer.

Beautiful shot. Great detail and contrast in the mountain and the lines are very nice in this. I feel like more definition of the windswept trees moving up from left center would be really appealing. Great in B+W.

Really nice Tom. The snow level is supposed to drop. I bet next week might lend to some nice shots from this area.
JG

Looks to me, Tom, like you might have gone just a bit overboard with the shadow recovery on the hillside in the FG. Also notice some fairly severe haloing around the trees at the top left.

I like a lot of this photo Tom, but like Bryan my eyes grabbed on to that haloing.

I like the dark stark contrast of this - not a fan of the halo's on the Left. Clean them up and it's a winner for me.

Thanks for the suggestions - I'll work on this one a bit more. Jack, you're right about the snow level. It's supposed to drop down to 3,000 feet today (after being very high for the past several days), then clear off a bit over Thanksgiving. So it could be one of those nice visits where you can hike w/o snowshoes, yet get a "winter" landscape from the viewpoint... now I just have to figure out how to slip away from visiting relatives and actually do that!