French Alps

Stan

I spent last week in the Alps, some of the worst weather for photography or skiing. When the weather did clear I managed a few shots.


Aiguille Rouge


Col du Petit St. Bernard



I love the mountains so it was very disapointing to have such poor weather.

Thanks for looking

Stan

digitalpins

WOW!!! beautiful pics

Marc Muench

Stan

I believe that with the wild and wooly weather the potential for REALLY great images increases, such as the first image you posted

I think this helps show the mood a bit more


alps.jpg

Stan

digitalpins wrote:

WOW!!! beautiful pics

Thanks for the comment

Stan

Stan

Marc Muench wrote:

Stan

I believe that with the wild and wooly weather the potential for REALLY great images increases, such as the first image you posted

I think this helps show the mood a bit more

Thank you for the work, Marc the change in crop and light has made an enormous difference.
The original shot had a temperature of 5800 +8, giving this


To neutralize the clouds I pushed the temp to 9800 +22. Having moved that far, I think I got cold feet and didn't push the shadows any more than the default in ACR at 28 Now I see I could have pushed it to double that.

Thanks again for your help. I will do some more work on it and see...

Stan

kmorgan

Beautiful, #1 looks like a painting!

Kevin

Stan

kmorgan wrote:

Beautiful, #1 looks like a painting!

Kevin

Thank you for the comment. It was just as the sun came up. The clouds cleared just enough to see the summit.


Here is my second attempt, I worked on it last night. Now in the daylight the monitor is struggling to see the detail in the clouds. It prints well enough at 11.5x7 inches.

Let me know if I pushed it too far...



Cheers
Stan

tobers

That's much better! I'd be tempted to make it more panoramic and lose some of the black from the bottom. I know it's boring, but putting the top of the lower cloud layer a third up the image rather than a half. This sort of pic really suits a long thin format I think.

Something like this?



edit: actually, it looks a tad unbalanced with the mountain too low now. Maybe drop the top edge down a bit as well?

Stan

Thanks for the crop, I like that. I haven't time to work up another version now, I have to finish packing, Val d'Isere beckons for a long weekend

Stan

cocasana

Very nice shots. You shouldn't push it too far IMHO. It already seems there's a fire instead of clouds!!!

DavidS

Wow! I love the first one.

Stan

cocasana wrote:

Very nice shots. You shouldn't push it too far IMHO. It already seems there's a fire instead of clouds!!!

Hi Cocasana, I am back, yes I agree with what you say. My final push did go too far.

I will try to reduce the fire a little and see what happens with less saturation. This is obviously not a realistic landscape but it could be an interesting interpretation given Marc's starting point.

Cheers
Stan

Marc Muench

Stan
I think at this point you will have to trust the print! Great job