Sierra Nevada, East

[GB1]

Taken a week or two ago. comments?

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[Greg McCary]

That's really nice GB the perfectly exposed coulds certainly make this. It doesn't look like it has a single blown out portion. Blown out coulds can really hurt an image but this one is very nice. You pushed the highlights to the edge. Very professional.
By the way have you shot any film lately? I miss those desert landscapes you do. I picked up a used F4s and I really like it.

[GB1]

That's really nice GB the perfectly exposed coulds certainly make this. It doesn't look like it has a single blown out portion. Blown out coulds can really hurt an image but this one is very nice. You pushed the highlights to the edge. Very professional.
By the way have you shot any film lately? I miss those desert landscapes you do. I picked up a used F4s and I really like it.

Thanks Greg. I think it was mostly luck on the highlights. Sometimes there's just enough haze in the air to balance out contrast between two objects - clouds and sky in this situation - where it doesn't blow out on the sensor. I used a polarizer too if you didn't notice. Do you think I should crop off some of the sky? I was thinking a little.

Film, film... oh, yeah... actually, I am doing something with that right now. I shot a model here a few weeks ago and planned on doing a little MF work w/ her with Fuji 160 ISO portrait film, but things got so busy I never got the MF out of my bag. I also loaded a roll of print film in my Nikon F100 and shot that at Mono Lake a couple weeks ago, along with most of the MF roll I should have shot. I will develop those soon. Glad to hear you like the F4. I need to reconnect my film scanner, but it's such a chore trying to get the device to connect to Windows 7/8, as Nikon never provided a driver. There's a hack on the internet but I suspect that it contributed to a Windows corruption issue I had about a month ago, which required me to reload the OS. Next time I'll create a Restore point or whatever they call it first.

[armando_m]

Great exposure ! and I really like the deep blue in the sky

I assume your main subject is the big clouds, I'll try and de-center it some, cropping some of the sky is an option

[mattb]

Yes, the clouds are great. I'd brighten the mountains a little with some fill light/shadows. They just seem so dark against those bright clouds.

[GB1]

Thanks fellows. Here's a slightly adjusted image, also slightly cropped. Matt, I instead darkened the clouds a tad to reduce contrast.. Not sure if this was the way to go or not, experiments are good though.

btw I've realized over the years that serious photography's best done solo, as the average person can't see why we spend so much time walking around the same scene looking for unique angles. My father was driving and I suspect he was a bit confused as to why I kept stopping to snap pix of the mountains.

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[gadgetking]

I like the crop!