Huascaran Norte

Gallery: LandscapePosted October 23, 2010126 views7 comments

Huascaran Norte stands at 21,834 feet in the Cordillera Blanca, Peru. I took this shot back in August at about 15,300 feet while on a climbing expedition. The scenery was simply spectacular! Wish I had my large format camera with me.

I was trying to capture and convey the vastness and grandeur of the area. One feels quite small when standing in a valley surrounded by peaks over 20,000 feet. I'd like to get feedback as to whether this photo conveys this.

Canon 40D + Canon 70-200mm L + Tripod + Minor tweaks in ACR

Thanks for looking! Large version attached.

Comments

7 comments

Comment posted by Tom Dobrzanski on October 23, 2010 at 9:31 PM

You make me miss snow Gabriel! You took 40D and tripod on a climbing expedition. Ha! That is impressive :)
I' haven't done such subjects in the past so I might be incorrect. Only IMO that black FG mountain, covering pretty much 3rd of the photo is making sure my attention is taken away from that spectacular subject....and the subject is spectacular :) If that FG would be a bit brighter and you would add another perspective to it like a tree close by or a man standing looking at it...perhaps, (again only in my opinion :) this message of being "quite small" would be perceived.

Registered on September 27, 2010, 17 Posts, 164 Comments

Comment posted by Michele Williams on October 24, 2010 at 7:41 AM

Gabriel, I think you captured the mountain well ... the light is nice and the clouds add a lot. But the dark corner really detracts from the image. If you could pull out a little detail it would make a big difference. As for conveying the massiveness of the mountain, I agree that a reference (man, tree ...) would work but there isn't anything you can do about that. Maybe including more of the foreground would do it. I see that you used a 70-200 lens so this image may not be cropped.
~Michele

Registered on April 3, 2010, 28 Posts, 146 Comments

Comment posted by Anand Narayanan on October 24, 2010 at 6:42 PM

Thats a beauty

The pic conveys how rugged and forbidding the mountain is.

Registered on October 25, 2009, 110 Posts, 835 Comments

Comment posted by Doug Roane on October 25, 2010 at 9:55 AM

It's hard to convey 'vastness' with a 70-200, but you definitely communicated the commanding nature and grandeur of this peak! I like the image!

Registered on December 12, 2008, 213 Posts, 2226 Comments

Comment posted by Tony Kuyper on October 25, 2010 at 10:07 AM

Very dramatic. Wonder what this would look like in B&W.

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Comment posted by Arild Heitmann on October 26, 2010 at 4:01 AM

Pretty damn impressive!

Registered on October 13, 2010, 27 Posts, 378 Comments

Comment posted by Håkon Iversen on October 27, 2010 at 3:13 AM

I would consider cropping this from the left hand corner and up, (I.e. both the bottom and the left hand side of the shot too still keep the perspective). This to exclude some of the mountian completely int he shade, and the shaded bit of the main mountain and the mountain behind it. I think htat would isolate the main mountain in a better way. THe light on it is really good.

Registered on August 16, 2010, 20 Posts, 123 Comments