I finally made it back up to Oregon for a feew weeks. For the first week I stayed at Mt. Hood for the High Cascade Snowboard Camp photo workshop which was amazing. After that went to the coast for a sunset at Ecola State Beach and then headed to Bend where my mom lives. I fortunate to go on my first solo backpacking trip which was amazing! I started from Devils Lake trailhead up in the Three Sisters WIlderness and hiked around to the east and north side of South Sister just exploring off trai. I actually stumbled upon a lot of Marcs spots . When I flew in I purchased a 10-22 in Portland so I used that for most of my shots. Anyways this was a couple days shy of my 18th birthday and the first morning after staying overnight to the east of South Sister. A storm was moving in so everything was very grey at 5:30 so I thought a black and white suited the situation.
Please feel free to critique.
Thanks for looking! Lots more to come.
30d
10-22
Around 20 seconds
no filters
Posted by Adrian Klein on September 2, 2008 at 10:06 AM
Khristian, the scene looks very pleasing and spot on for composition IMO. And I think b&w seems work well here too. Nice job! My only issues are the couple hot spots. The couple small patches in the water and the right corner of the sky. If you shot in RAW and can blend those out to show a little detail this would make a fine final image. Hope this helps!
Posted by Chris Hodney on September 2, 2008 at 12:02 PM
I agree, this is a very nice composition and exposure. I like the slow shutter speed, but do agree that those hot spots should be blended out if you have the RAW file.
Also, I'd like to see a little more detail in the rocky areas of the mountain.....probably a combination of Levels and Sharpening adjustment layers in photoshop.
Thanks Adrian and Chris,
Right after I posted this I noticed a few hot spots in the water aswell. I'll have to work on those.
Thank you for the help!
Posted by John Zinn on September 6, 2008 at 9:43 PM
Nice shot Kristian. The 'hot spots' in the water can be tricky to deal with. The main issue is that with a long exposure time you will loose detail, and even that can't be recovered from the raw file. Yes you can darken those areas but the best way to maintain detail is to keep you shutter time down to under a few seconds.
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4 repliesI finally made it back up to Oregon for a feew weeks. For the first week I stayed at Mt. Hood for the High Cascade Snowboard Camp photo workshop which was amazing. After that went to the coast for a sunset at Ecola State Beach and then headed to Bend where my mom lives. I fortunate to go on my first solo backpacking trip which was amazing! I started from Devils Lake trailhead up in the Three Sisters WIlderness and hiked around to the east and north side of South Sister just exploring off trai. I actually stumbled upon a lot of Marcs spots
Please feel free to critique.
Thanks for looking! Lots more to come.
30d
10-22
Around 20 seconds
no filters
Also, I'd like to see a little more detail in the rocky areas of the mountain.....probably a combination of Levels and Sharpening adjustment layers in photoshop.
Right after I posted this I noticed a few hot spots in the water aswell. I'll have to work on those.
Thank you for the help!
John