Pamela Hoaglund
About the Image(s)
With no travel this year, dangerous air quality due to wildfire smoke and then rain I’m having to dig into my archives. So, I revisited images I took in Colorado in 2017. This is outside Crested Butte. Taken with my Canon 6D and 70-200 f/4 lens. I did bracketed images but chose to process the underexposed image only. ISO 100, 1/100sec at f/11. One of the challenges is getting reasonably sharp images of the trees as the slightest breeze causes the aspen leaves to move. I loved the colors on this hillside and the threatening sky. Post processed in ON1 2020, setting white and black points, adding a little structure, a little negative haze and a little saturation and vibrance. I then added dynamic contrast and sharpening and a slight vignette.
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9 comments posted
You mentioned the difficulty in getting sharp images of the trees due to moving leaves. Do you find that the 1/100 sec speed you used is fast enough to capture sharp tree pictures? I was wondering if a slightly higher ISO would have improved your shutter speed and created a photo requiring less post-processing work?
Thorro Jones DDG 97 Admin
  Posted: 10/08/2020 15:12:17
(Group 90)
Compositionally I would love either more foreground or less. Seeing as the original is the same size/aspect as the posted image, cropping is the only option. The reason I suggest is this is to create a very subtle but strong mirroring between the grey of the mountain peeks and the grey of the visible tree trunks. (see attached)
  Posted: 10/20/2020 15:45:38