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Tom Dick Mountain | Jan '08

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Posted by Tom Kloster on January 18, 2008 at 1:52 AM
This is the familiar summit block of Tom Dick and Harry Mountain, as viewed from Mirror Lake yesterday. Taken with my "pack" tripod and a telephoto lens. Comments and suggestions appreciated!

Olympus E-510, 40-150mm lens at about 130mm, polarizer, frozen fingers... :cool:
Posted by Andy Drumer on January 18, 2008 at 10:29 PM
Wow tom, I just went up there today

Seems like you were there later and had some better clouds. The image seems a tad flat though, even desaturated maybe. I do like the icy blue look of the rocks though
Posted by Cliff Dodge on January 19, 2008 at 12:06 AM
Nicely composed for me. Nice winter scene. Kinda hard to get some darker contrast out of the rock when there is snow on them, eh?
Posted by Erik Lundh on January 19, 2008 at 1:06 AM
Nice lighting and snow on the trees. I think this would be a good seller for a Doctors office. It makes me feel like I'm there. :toast:
Posted by Darren White on January 19, 2008 at 1:15 AM
very nice...can you brighten it just a bit and make the snow a tad whiter!!!!
Posted by John Williams on January 19, 2008 at 11:15 AM
I really like the snow on the rocks here Tom. I do agree that a bit more sky interest, especially a touch of color, would really set this off. How was the trail up to Mirror?
Posted by Tom Kloster on January 19, 2008 at 1:22 PM
It was totally packed from the previous weekend, John - an easy walk, though there is still about a foot of powder on the surface off the beaten path. The trails disappear beyond the lake, and the trip up Tom Dick and Harry would involving breaking a lot of trail! I didn't come away with any winner photos, but the many of the trees around the lake were coated in 5-6" icicles. Very photogenic, though I had bad DOF results on the images that I tried..

Thanks for the comments, everyone - much appreciated!
Posted by Catherine Reilly on January 30, 2008 at 1:23 PM
This looks good! I like the comp very much. The muted palette is not a turn-off to me. Just, the snow looks a little yellow. Doing a selective color layer on the image in PS ought to fix that, and it will also lend a bit more blue to the sky. Sounds like a great day outside even with the standard issue frozen digits for this time o' the year. :smile: