Don Railton
03-11-2013, 06:17 AM
Hello All
Another image from New Zealand. Morkel, you did say things seemsed a little quite and i am doing my best...
This mountain is claimed by the locals to be the 2nd most perfect Cone in the world to Mount Fuji in Japan. The mountain stands all alone and close to the coast which means the weather changes very quickly on its slopes. This makes it quite dangerous as you can drive to 5000' and in a short walk put yourself into a situation suited only experianced climbers with the right gear. I have climbed it 19 times during my early years, would like to do it at least 1 more time. I spent 3 days in a search & rescue mission on this mountain looking for a guy that just parked his car up the mountain then hitched a ride to the opposite coast in NZ....! He said nothing. The scene is very typical of the province of Taranaki, where dairy farming is mostly practiced, and many tourists visit but mostly the mountain is covered in cloud and they go away dissapointed...
My inital shot had the peak of the mountain in the upper RH third, but I though 'too much sky' and so I cropped a little from the top. I am now thinking 'too much green foreground' but what do you think..
1D4 + 50mm 1.4
iso 100, 1/80 sec @ F20 on Tripod
manual mode, eval metering.
levels and curves & selective colour to remove blue cast, all done in CS6
Don
Another image from New Zealand. Morkel, you did say things seemsed a little quite and i am doing my best...
This mountain is claimed by the locals to be the 2nd most perfect Cone in the world to Mount Fuji in Japan. The mountain stands all alone and close to the coast which means the weather changes very quickly on its slopes. This makes it quite dangerous as you can drive to 5000' and in a short walk put yourself into a situation suited only experianced climbers with the right gear. I have climbed it 19 times during my early years, would like to do it at least 1 more time. I spent 3 days in a search & rescue mission on this mountain looking for a guy that just parked his car up the mountain then hitched a ride to the opposite coast in NZ....! He said nothing. The scene is very typical of the province of Taranaki, where dairy farming is mostly practiced, and many tourists visit but mostly the mountain is covered in cloud and they go away dissapointed...
My inital shot had the peak of the mountain in the upper RH third, but I though 'too much sky' and so I cropped a little from the top. I am now thinking 'too much green foreground' but what do you think..
1D4 + 50mm 1.4
iso 100, 1/80 sec @ F20 on Tripod
manual mode, eval metering.
levels and curves & selective colour to remove blue cast, all done in CS6
Don