Posted by Andy Astbury on March 31, 2012 at 4:53 AM
Driving through Snowdonia the other week with Mike Warrender we were greeted by this awesome atmospheric spectacle over Tryfan, Brag Rocks and the Bochlwyd Buttress.
It was changing very fast so we just had time to jump out of Mikes new camper van and get some shots handheld.
HH
D3+24-70mm
5 shot exposure bracket 1/150th to 1/2500th @ f11 ISO 200
Hi Andy, how the bigger version breathes so much life into an image.
Certainly atmospheric and love the shafts of subtle light cutting across the mountains. Was it your choice of 'toning' re colour? What was the EXIF, just interested, although it only gives an indication and each image will very react in different ways.
TFS
Steve
Posted by John Robinson on March 31, 2012 at 6:23 AM
Don't know much about landscapes but looks impressive to me.
JR
Very atmospheric. If this were my shot I would probably have opened up the dark tones to get a bit more detail.
Posted by Andy Astbury on March 31, 2012 at 7:17 AM
Stevo - remiss of me - sorted.
Tone is pretty much 'as is' - just a pseudo 65% LBA warming filter added.
Thanks John - I'm pleased about that - cheers
Phil - you can obviously see a lot more on the full rez 6000 pixels tiff, in fact right up into the big gully under the top most godray; the only thing is, if I start bringing more detail out of the shadow areas it'll change the atmosphere of the shot and it'll go all typical "HDR - ified". I've tried to process as I saw it - there's about twice as much detail visible as the camera could capture in one hit, so it just about sits right with the dynamic range of average eyes.
I've come to the conclusion that shooting into the sun (or in this case as near as dammit) is, for me, the mutts nuts thing to do, and that less is more!!
Posted by David Sewell on March 31, 2012 at 7:30 AM
That is one great image, Andy. The sort of thing that you could blow up large, hang on the wall, and live with for years to come.
David
Posted by Malcolm Muir on March 31, 2012 at 9:28 AM
Very nice - to me the exposure is about right in terms of bringing out the shot's "atmosphere" and graphic impact.
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18 repliesIt was changing very fast so we just had time to jump out of Mikes new camper van and get some shots handheld.
HH
D3+24-70mm
5 shot exposure bracket 1/150th to 1/2500th @ f11 ISO 200
Thanks for looking
Certainly atmospheric and love the shafts of subtle light cutting across the mountains. Was it your choice of 'toning' re colour? What was the EXIF, just interested, although it only gives an indication and each image will very react in different ways.
TFS
Steve
JR
Tone is pretty much 'as is' - just a pseudo 65% LBA warming filter added.
Thanks John - I'm pleased about that - cheers
Phil - you can obviously see a lot more on the full rez 6000 pixels tiff, in fact right up into the big gully under the top most godray; the only thing is, if I start bringing more detail out of the shadow areas it'll change the atmosphere of the shot and it'll go all typical "HDR - ified". I've tried to process as I saw it - there's about twice as much detail visible as the camera could capture in one hit, so it just about sits right with the dynamic range of average eyes.
I've come to the conclusion that shooting into the sun (or in this case as near as dammit) is, for me, the mutts nuts thing to do, and that less is more!!
David
Bob
Dave
Keith.
Oscar
You're good at these, and enhanced still further when viewing the larger image.
Matt