NO WORDS THREAD 20130330a: Landscape - Mountains

[Tom Mann]

If you have any good pix of mountains you'd like to show off, then post a few of them in this thread.

If you want to chat about the pix, post your thoughts in the corresponding discussion thread:
NO WORDS DISCUSSION THREAD 20130330a: Landscape - Mountains

Please follow the guidelines in the sticky:
http://www.photoshopgurus.com/forum...ly-photographic-threads-rules-guidelines.html .

Cheers, Tom M

 

[Steve]

Canon 60D EF-S 10-22 @ f8
1/350 ISO 200

 

[Steve]

Canon 60D EF-S 10-22 @ f8
1/250 ISO 100

 

[ibclare]

DeAnza (California) Foothills. A section of my Amphitheatre

 

[Steve]

Same camera and Lens
1/750 f10 ISO 200

 

[Tom Mann]

Some fun in Photoshop with a landscape...

 

[Tom Mann]

Death Valley. Old Kodachrome slide converted to B&W in PS.

 

[ForeverFallenAngel]

I don't have mountains near me so added landscape shot from winter

 

[Tom Mann]

Very nice, "Fallen". If you don't have mountains, you don't have mountains -- We are certainly not going to hold it against you in this little forum.

Also, check the parallel discussion thread: NO WORDS DISCUSSION THREAD 20130330a: Landscape - Mountains
I just posted a tweak of your image there. I went nuts with saturation like I usually do with my own landscapes. I'll be curious to know if you like it or you can't stand it. LOL.

T

 

[chrisdesign]

Monte Pelmo, Dolomites, Italy

 

[Tom Mann]

Really nice, Chris. I wish I was there right now -- groan. I love how you captured the cloud hugging the peak, the beautiful colors.

I only would offer 2 suggestions - The version u posted appears to be a bit oversharpened, and personally, I would crop closer to emphasize the massive nature of the peak. This throws out the diagonal leading line coming in from the right, but I kinda like the visual effect better this way. YMMV.

Best regards,

T

 

[chrisdesign]

You're right Tom, it was a bit oversharpend. And with your cropping the mountain is much more impressive.

 

[chrisdesign]

Passo Zebru 3005 m. near Bormio Italy.

 

[Tom Mann]

Here's a so-so photo I took at around 8000 feet near Mt. Baker in the Cascade Mountains. (Olympus XA, almost certainly Kodachrome). The most interesting thing about this shot is that it is from 1980, only a few days before Mt. Saint Helens erupted.

When it exploded, I was with a climbing buddy at about 9000 feet on the (south) tourist snowfield route up Mt. Adams which is about 40 miles east of Mt. St. Helens. We were eating breakfast and I was looking over his shoulder directly at a perfect view of Mt. St. Helens. It was the only time in my life I was speechless -- I kept gesturing, but he thought I was joking. Finally, I could talk. We had no idea which direction the ash plume would go, so we quickly broke camp and headed down below the tree line. Fortunately, the ash never came in our direction. I was so worried that I didn't take a single photo of the explosion, although I have several not very good shots of it on the previous day.

T

 

[ibclare]

Aren't you humble Mr. So 'n So! :mrgreen: Better than most of my best.

I remember that eruption and the old guy who wouldn't leave. And ... I still have a vial of ash from it. Whether it's for real or not, well who knows.

 

[Tom Mann]

LOL, Clare. If you could see what I had to go through in postprocessing to pull that out of the old Kodachrome, you would know why I called it a so-so image. LOL!

T

PS - Correction: My memory is going. My lake is near Glacier Peak, not Mt. Baker. In case anyone is interested, it's Upper Lyman Lake.