Chairlift Into the Cloud

by Jonathan Sinclair

Gallery: Man & NaturePosted February 22, 2010196 views13 comments

Taken from the chair lift at Red Mountain Ski Resort. Shows a sense of the unknown.

F/5.6
1/400 sec
ISO 64

Comments

13 comments

Comment posted by Kah Kit Yoong on February 22, 2010 at 3:48 PM

Very cool minimalism. There's some colour noise that might be less distracting by conversion to BW.

Registered on September 27, 2006, 636 Posts, 10682 Comments

Comment posted by Sam Chrysanthou on February 22, 2010 at 4:43 PM

I really like the concept here. The objects are instantly recognizable yet you present them in an intriguing and mysterious way. Only nit (and not sure if this is something you could safely change!) is the merging of the one chair with the pole.

Registered on December 18, 2007, 71 Posts, 1191 Comments

Comment posted by Stan Rose on February 23, 2010 at 8:20 AM

Ive been on lifts so many times and wished i had my camera with me... This is cool, as KK mentions could use a bit of noise reduction.

Registered on September 15, 2005, 836 Posts, 17099 Comments

Comment posted by Kurt Budliger on February 23, 2010 at 9:45 AM

Sick shot, I love the negative space around the lift. Was the noise intentionally added in post or the result of high iso?

Registered on June 11, 2006, 113 Posts, 2116 Comments

Comment posted by Jonathan Sinclair on February 23, 2010 at 11:48 AM

Thanks for the comments!
Kurt, the noise was a side effect when I auto-leveled the photo in photoshop. At first I didn't like it, but it showed the trees and chairlift better.

Registered on February 11, 2010, 35 Posts, 39 Comments

Comment posted by Ross McClure on February 23, 2010 at 5:33 PM

Jonathan,
Really like the dreamness of your compostion. It reminds me of the old movies where they used "Panovision". I would not change a thing.
Cheers,
Ross McClure
Golden, Co.

Registered on January 29, 2010, 16 Posts, 66 Comments

Comment posted by Debashis Bandyopad on February 23, 2010 at 7:38 PM

WOW... Super creative and arty. well done

Registered on June 24, 2007, 130 Posts, 1309 Comments

Comment posted by Rick Gomez on February 23, 2010 at 9:04 PM

Cool shot... Can't say I've ever seen another shot like this one.

Registered on March 3, 2007, 206 Posts, 1853 Comments

Comment posted by Jim Sabiston on February 25, 2010 at 1:02 PM

Very nice. Excellent use of negative space.

Registered on April 7, 2007, 134 Posts, 443 Comments

Comment posted by Cliff Dodge on February 26, 2010 at 7:04 PM

Another reason i dont ride those things. I think i am a fatalist. Cool shot.

Registered on March 25, 2006, 125 Posts, 507 Comments

Comment posted by Margo Pinkerton on February 27, 2010 at 1:24 PM

I love the simplicity of this photo. There are, however, some distracting textures in the lower left that you might want to clone out.

Registered on October 18, 2007, 39 Posts, 214 Comments

Comment posted by Jonathan Sinclair on February 27, 2010 at 2:22 PM

This is the image after I ran it through a Denoise program, converted to BW, and removed textures bottom left hand corner.

Registered on February 11, 2010, 35 Posts, 39 Comments

Comment posted by Robert Dayton on February 28, 2010 at 10:22 AM

I like this very much, Jonathan. It's dreamy.

Registered on November 11, 2008, 281 Posts, 3958 Comments