Morteratsch Glacier #1

Gallery: LandscapePosted February 9, 2013180 views7 comments

Morteratsch Glacier, Switzerland

It's been a long time since I posted here. I hope this will change. I am also behind with processing. This is still from last october after some early snow. There were already skiers on the slopes!

I'm not a big fan of panoramas, but here it was the obvious choice.

Thank you for looking, C&C are welcome.

Shantikara

Canon 5D markII + EF 17-40 No filter
ISO 100 - f/7.1 - 1 sec - WB: 5700K
Single exposures, some burn/dodge, curves

Comments

7 comments

Comment posted by Basil Greber on February 9, 2013 at 8:13 AM

Love the light and the landscape. I think that the foreground center is a bit empty, it would be good to have some compositional element there (pattern, object, lake, whatever). Like this, there is a lot of interest in the peaks, but the lower half of the frame doesn't excite quite as much, in my opinion.

Registered on November 8, 2005, 219 Posts, 1340 Comments

Comment posted by Nick Palmieri on February 9, 2013 at 1:02 PM

Beautiful light and sky. Love the colors and love the peaks just getting lit. I agree that this would be strengthened of there was more interest in the FG.

Registered on September 1, 2011, 35 Posts, 748 Comments

Comment posted by Brian Schrayer on February 9, 2013 at 4:43 PM

Beautiful location with nice soft lighting. The panoramic format really shows the expansiveness of the landscape. Nice work!!

Registered on May 28, 2004, 114 Posts, 2890 Comments

Comment posted by Hamed Musharbak on February 9, 2013 at 11:26 PM

where is your snow board

nice view

Registered on June 1, 2009, 372 Posts, 2282 Comments

Comment posted by Eva McDermott on February 10, 2013 at 5:28 PM

Beautiful view of earth's shadow on the right Shantikara as well as those wonderful mountains. Just a thought, but maybe brightening the foreground slightly would bring out the pattern line in the snow.

Registered on January 4, 2009, 1015 Posts, 13229 Comments

Comment posted by Vlad Sadovsky on February 11, 2013 at 3:09 PM

Just spotted this one - really attractive light conveyed here, though I am with Eva here - brightening the foreground a bit and adding a little local contrast may bring up textures. I like the tops the most though, just wonderful transitioin of the lighted tops from right to very left, panorama in it's own way.

Registered on November 12, 2010, 48 Posts, 358 Comments

Comment posted by Shantikara Valuska on February 11, 2013 at 4:16 PM

Thank you all. I agree on the empty space in the middle. However nicely the early snowfall covered the mountains, unfortunately also covered the glacier's patterns. I tried with more contrast, but there's not much there to bring out. I have to revisit this place in the summer.

Registered on July 25, 2011, 38 Posts, 451 Comments