California Mountains on Xmas day

• pete4130

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  January 6, 2009 at 7:23 am

  
  aoluain

  Participant

  January 6, 2009 at 9:15 am

  Hey Pete,

  Very dramatic shot, love the contrast everywhere in the shot.
  Great sharpness too.

  Really like this

  Alan
  mgst

  Participant

  January 6, 2009 at 9:57 am

  Gree very dramatic love the clouds.

  Mick
  BM

  Participant

  January 6, 2009 at 12:17 pm

  Great shot.

  What is the enclosed areea in the foregound?

  What post processing did you apply? – the detail in the mountains in the middle distance is astounding.
  Deebo

  Participant

  January 6, 2009 at 12:34 pm

  Really nice shot, the clouds are excellent as is the far mountains just in view.
  The cars and vans add the scale really well just to show how big these are
  Dee
  pete4130

  Member

  January 7, 2009 at 12:14 am

  Thanks everyone. I spent a little bit of time on this. I did some selective levels and curves adjustement on dofferent parts to balance out the image and desaturated the sky a little, it was a tad green/yellow for watever reason on the original RAW. The area in the foreground was an unused field that was pretty wide and filled the foreground so I cropped it. I shot this on a 200mm lens so that gives another idea of the scale. It was shot while I was taking a leak on the side of the road (not at the same time obviously!) and I wasn’t really too happy with how it looked. I was really shocked at what a little post processing did to it. There were all weather conditions at the same time that day, within 5 mins I’d been through a cloud, rainstorms, snow and blazing sunshine which gave me the nice light, shadows and dramatic clouds. I’m still a little overwhelmed at how it turned out. Landscape is not my thing at all!
  BM

  Participant

  January 7, 2009 at 10:19 am

  Thanks for the replies, Pete. Always good to learn some PP techniques and to see what the outcome is.

  The scale must be massive.

  pete4130 wrote:

  There were all weather conditions at the same time that day, within 5 mins I’d been through a cloud, rainstorms, snow and blazing sunshine which gave me the nice light, shadows and dramatic clouds.

  Sounds just like Ireland in the spring and summer.

  pete4130 wrote:

  I’m still a little overwhelmed at how it turned out. Landscape is not my thing at all!

  It is now!
  wirepic

  Participant

  January 7, 2009 at 2:08 pm

  I like the layers of colour in this one. And the cars on the highway give a real sense of scale.
  con20or

  Participant

  January 8, 2009 at 8:29 pm

  Greta pic pete!