A succession of "potholes" in a snow covered stream fed by Crystal Cascades, Mt. Washington, NH
I was up at Pinkham Notch, New Hampshire yesterday trying to photograph around Crystal Cascades near the base of he Tuckerman's Ravine Trail. The weather in the morning was less then cooperative..... Snow, sleet, rain until a little after noon when the skies began to clear (at least in the White Mountain sense of the word) and the temperature rose above freezing. While the morning light was quite flat (during the snow, sleet, rain) providing no detail in the snow, the afternoon light was quite harsh. So using some of the new tools in LR4 beta followed by Silver Efex Pro 2 conversion (high structure) here is my attempt at a save (I think) from a horrific photo day in the White Mountains. Please let me know what ya think. Thanks for looking. BTW - This is the same location where I photographed
Cauldron two years ago in the front pool. Not much ice this year, but a lot of wet snow.
Canon 5DM2
Canon TS-E 24mm
ISO100 1/40sec f/16
Single exposure
I also took some film images with my Pentax 67II and 90-180mm using Kodachrome E100G and Fuji Velvia 50 so it will be interesting to see how those turn out in a week or so but I am not too hopeful.
Comments
16 commentsNick Bristol
Lone Rock, WI
Hi Jim -Many thanks. I drove my son up the night before since he had an interview for summer trail crew with the AMC and knew there was a storm coming (he does not have a car at college, UNH). I loved this place when I was his age and glad he loves it too. He has done two winter summits of Mt Washington and is a student at UNH in their outdoor education program as well as their forestry program now. Living life through your kids. Wow. Just hope he takes up photography too.
Hamed
Peter
Grreat job processing this. I assume you shot it during the "flat" light. That's often the only light I have, so I use curves adjustments to bring out the shadows and highlights in the snow. (Probably very similar results using different processing tools.) Wonderful view, looking down the cascades.