Posted by Tom Kloster on January 4, 2008 at 12:09 PM
This is the companion image to the Reid Glacier/West Face shot. Both are from the exact same spot, same lens, same exposure, so the only difference is composition.
This piece of the mountain is one that I've shot before from various spots along the Lolo Pass Road - I think it works better as a composition than the Reid shot because of the strong, diagonal horizon line formed by Cathedral Ridge, though the other contrasts in texture are much the same as the Reid view. This view includes more of the mountain fog that was drifting through, and I'm torn in whether that's a useful part of the composition.
Comments & suggestions appreciated, as always - hopefully I've titled this one with enough warning so as not to shock anyone..!
Posted by Marc Adamus on January 4, 2008 at 9:14 PM
Tom, I much prefer the first version. The shadows are more effective in the first version in the mountain area and I feel the mountain is a bit too off-center here to be a strong focal point. Both images together might look pretty cool...
Posted by Tom Kloster on January 5, 2008 at 12:30 AM
Thanks, Marc. Here's a quick merge of the two, reprocessed... there's a (fixable) merge glitch along the north summit ridge due to mismatched images, but you get the general idea...
Posted by Bryan Swan on January 5, 2008 at 12:56 AM
Second one rocks Tom.
Posted by Geoff Shapiro on January 5, 2008 at 11:02 AM
I like them all, Tom. Every time I view these latest images from you they make me think that you were taking them using IR filters - that's the appearance they present to me!
Posted by John Williams on January 5, 2008 at 12:25 PM
With rare exceptions I like the wider views of Hood, so I vote for the second one too. Wonderful shadows and contrast Tom.
Posted by Tom Kloster on January 5, 2008 at 2:22 PM
Thanks for the comments! Geoff, that is something I have always wanted to do - back in ye olde days of film, I was intimidated by infrared because of the processing, but it's definitely something I'd like to try in the film-less era - especially for mountain photography.
Posted by Geoff Shapiro on January 5, 2008 at 2:37 PM
I had tried IR with an Olympus C8080WZ P&S I'd owned several years back. I found it to be quite a bit of trial and error since the IR filter is almost completely opaque to visible light therefore making it very difficult to view the scene and then to estimate exposure. It was a bit of work to compose with filter off, put filter on, take shot, etc.
Whether or not you can do it with your brand of DSLR, I believe depends on the AA filtering installed on your sensor - some will pass more IR than others.
If you're interested, here's a few sites I've found that go into it...
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7 repliesThis piece of the mountain is one that I've shot before from various spots along the Lolo Pass Road - I think it works better as a composition than the Reid shot because of the strong, diagonal horizon line formed by Cathedral Ridge, though the other contrasts in texture are much the same as the Reid view. This view includes more of the mountain fog that was drifting through, and I'm torn in whether that's a useful part of the composition.
Comments & suggestions appreciated, as always - hopefully I've titled this one with enough warning so as not to shock anyone..!
Whether or not you can do it with your brand of DSLR, I believe depends on the AA filtering installed on your sensor - some will pass more IR than others.
If you're interested, here's a few sites I've found that go into it...
http://www.irdigital.net/
http://www.bythom.com/infrared.htm
http://www.luminous-landscape.com/reviews/cameras/infrared%20dslr.shtml