Nuclear mountain

Gallery: LandscapePosted December 15, 2011188 views5 comments

As it seems from my gallery that most of my images come from series. This is no different. I shot this the same evening as my last post just after sunset. I wasn't really having much luck finding compositions until I found this giant lichen covered boulder. The greens were so vibrant, and they contrasted nicely with the red hues of the mountain and the twilight blue sky. I need to mention that this is suffering some from web compression. Even the large version (which I did NOT include this time) suffered severely from web compression due to size constraints. Anyways, I was planning to do a blend with multiple focal points, but this frame seemed to have enough detail for me to work through saving me a lot of time. (Plus I forgot my aperture was set at f/22 anyways). Comments and critiques appreciated.

Superstition mountains- Arizona

Canon 7d
Canon 17-40mm @17mm
ISO 100
1 sec
f/22
3 stop grad ND filter
tripod

Comments

5 comments

Comment posted by Russell Colletta on December 15, 2011 at 7:45 PM

Nice Peter, I'm curious what significantly less DOF would do to separate that interesting FG from the BG.

Registered on October 31, 2009, 114 Posts, 1008 Comments

Comment posted by Peter Coskun on December 15, 2011 at 7:55 PM

Thanks Russ, I do have frames using higher apertures (for blending purposes) and where I had primarily focused on the closest point of the rock the mountains appeared very out of focus as expected. It is somewhat interesting, but with these mountains it's hard to say an image of them that is out of focus is appealing.

Registered on October 31, 2011, 170 Posts, 1240 Comments

Comment posted by Richard Hartmann on December 15, 2011 at 9:18 PM

Nice comp and the greens work well.
The mountain looks under exposed for my taste. A blend of two exposures may have worked better than the grad filter in this case.

Registered on January 15, 2009, 13 Posts, 772 Comments

Comment posted by scott lanz on December 16, 2011 at 8:00 AM

I like the different, colorful foreground. The mountains appear underexposed to me as well, particularly juxtaposed with the bright foreground.

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Comment posted by Luke Austin on December 16, 2011 at 10:45 AM

I like the colours and composition here Peter but think that the foreground could be darkened and mountains lightened to help draw the viewer in.

Registered on November 30, 2011, 5 Posts, 43 Comments