The Crystal Mill

bgarlandbgarland Registered Users Posts: 761 Major grins
edited September 8, 2012 in Landscapes
We were on a camping trip in Colorado last week and I had to seek out and try my hand at the often shot Crystal Mill near Marble Colorado.

My results, CC welcome:

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Comments

  • TreyHoffTreyHoff Registered Users Posts: 388 Major grins
    edited September 7, 2012
    I just posted on your other thread....I knew that was the Crystal Mill road! I'm planning a fall colors trip to Colorado and plan to hire a jeep out of Marble to take me in....might be a bit tight for my Sequoia don't you think? All these shots are great. Nice Job. What time of day was this and what lens did you use to capture?
  • bgarlandbgarland Registered Users Posts: 761 Major grins
    edited September 7, 2012
    TreyHoff wrote: »
    I just posted on your other thread....I knew that was the Crystal Mill road! I'm planning a fall colors trip to Colorado and plan to hire a jeep out of Marble to take me in....might be a bit tight for my Sequoia don't you think? All these shots are great. Nice Job. What time of day was this and what lens did you use to capture?


    Thanks Trey

    The photos of the road in the other thread are between Crystal and the Lead King Basin. The road from Marble past the Crystal Mill into the town of Crystal is pretty easy. Your Sequoia would have no problem getting all the way to Crystal. You would only need a jeep if you want to go past there up into Lead King Basin. Although if you will be looking for fall colors, that would be an awesome place for it. The basin was lined with large stands of Aspen mixed with blue spruce. I wish we would have gone in there 3-4 weeks later and been able to enjoy the fall colors.

    The Mill shots were taken with two lens. I shoot with a 7D. The wide angle was my 10-22 and other closer images were taken with a 17-55. They were taken in the late afternoon but the sun was being filtered by clouds drifting through so I got the filtered and direct light. I used a 3.0 ND filter to slow the shutter for the water frost.

    I have several versions posted in this gallery and you can display the camera settings I was using. To be sure I got it a shot a ton at different F-stops and exposures for each angle and lens I used. I didn't want to come home and end up saying, oh, I wish I had tried X.

    http://bgarland.smugmug.com/Camping-Trips/Colorado-2012/25192233_GSSJVz#!i=2070966994&k=W2g93Kw

    Happy shooting.
  • TreyHoffTreyHoff Registered Users Posts: 388 Major grins
    edited September 7, 2012
    Thanks for the info about the road....I'll take the Sequoia then! We're going to rent a Jeep in Ouray and go over Engineer and Cimarron Pass for fun mwink.gif As much scouring as I've done looking at Crystal Mill shots, your compositions from the low vantage point and that late afternoon light is the some of the best I've seen.

    I'll be there around Oct. 3rd and hope to have good colors and ......clouds!

    Your gallery was fun to look at.

    Trey
    bgarland wrote: »
    Thanks Trey

    The photos of the road in the other thread are between Crystal and the Lead King Basin. The road from Marble past the Crystal Mill into the town of Crystal is pretty easy. Your Sequoia would have no problem getting all the way to Crystal. You would only need a jeep if you want to go past there up into Lead King Basin. Although if you will be looking for fall colors, that would be an awesome place for it. The basin was lined with large stands of Aspen mixed with blue spruce. I wish we would have gone in there 3-4 weeks later and been able to enjoy the fall colors.

    The Mill shots were taken with two lens. I shoot with a 7D. The wide angle was my 10-22 and other closer images were taken with a 17-55. They were taken in the late afternoon but the sun was being filtered by clouds drifting through so I got the filtered and direct light. I used a 3.0 ND filter to slow the shutter for the water frost.

    I have several versions posted in this gallery and you can display the camera settings I was using. To be sure I got it a shot a ton at different F-stops and exposures for each angle and lens I used. I didn't want to come home and end up saying, oh, I wish I had tried X.

    http://bgarland.smugmug.com/Camping-Trips/Colorado-2012/25192233_GSSJVz#!i=2070966994&k=W2g93Kw

    Happy shooting.
  • Art MorganArt Morgan Registered Users Posts: 107 Major grins
    edited September 8, 2012
    I must put this place on my bucket list! I like #2...seems to have a wee bit more detail than #4, but they are all great comps. Nice work!
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