Winter hiking at Mt. Baldy

erich6

Last weekend we got a lot of snow in the So. California mountains. Took the chance to do some winter hiking and sledding with my boys. Here are a couple of shots from the trip.

Erich






If you're interested you can check out more at http://hbphoto.smugmug.com/gallery/1281703

Erich

Frog Lady

I really like the 1st one Erich, great job How bad was the drive getting up there?

Colleen

devbobo

very nice Erich

marlof

The first one in particular is very beauttiful. I love how the stream is really coming towards you, and that the brownish colors of the stones in the stream stand out against the mostly white background.

erich6

Hi everyone!

Thanks for the comments. I like the first one the best also. It was hard to find any color to contrast against all the white. As soon as I saw the stream I knew I'd get something decent. It was very pretty up there.

Erich

grimace

Beautiful shots!! I especially like the 1st one!!

Jamoke

I've got to ask
would you mind sharing the exif on the first one. I'm dying to know how you get that affect at the bottom of the falls. I tried to get that effect this weekend on some of my shots, and I failed, thus proving my ignorance.

Please let me know.

gpgold

erich6 wrote:

Last weekend we got a lot of snow in the So. California mountains. Took the chance to do some winter hiking and sledding with my boys. Here are a couple of shots from the trip.

Erich

I checked out the exif info on the first shot. I'm curious, did you use any ND filter? Or, was that a straight f20 @ 1/8? Nice shots BTW.

regards,

Gary

erich6

Hi everyone,

Thanks again for your positive comments on the shots. You can see the EXIF for the first one here http://hbphoto.smugmug.com/photos/newexif.mg?ImageID=60202567.

As Gary pointed out this was 1/8th sec exposure @ f/20. I didn't use an ND filter which is why I had to use the slowest speed setting I could (ISO 100) and a fairly small aperture to get as slow a speed as I could get. Even so, 1/8th isn't enough by itself.

What I did is take 6 shots in continuous mode with the camera on the tripod using a remote release. I then took these shots and "stacked" them in Photohop. That is, I made each a layer of a composite image. Each layer opacity was adjusted so that the first layer was at 50%, the next at 25%, then 12.5%, and so on. This has the effect of averaging all of the frames such that you get the same effect as an extended exposure.

Erich

DanielB

both shots are beautiful eric, but i especially like the 1st, beautiful composition and follow-through

kewlginko

Question about hiking Mt. Baldy in Winter
I'm thinking about taking a backpacking trip to Mt Baldy next weekend and I wanted to talk to someone whose been up in the winter. Where exactly did you hike, just Ice House Canyone trail? How high up? And, what were the trails like, snow packed, worn, visible? Thanks!

Nikolai

Nice, Erich!
I didn't realized there was still so much snow over there...
Very nice images!

Forehead

Let's hope there's enough moisture later on to keep those wildfires at bay!

johno

Fun! My family used to camp at Mt. B all the time when I was a kid. Still have the scar in my head from a "stray" rock that fell from the sky.

peace.
johno~

erich6

Well, that shot was from 2 months ago so I'm not sure how things are there now. This was hiking Icehouse Canyon Trail. We only went up a couple of miles. Didn't have crampons so we didn't go too far.

Erich

erich6

johno wrote:

Fun! My family used to camp at Mt. B all the time when I was a kid. Still have the scar in my head from a "stray" rock that fell from the sky.

peace.
johno~

It was fun!

Sorry about your head. We had a couple of sledding accidents but no major injuries!