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Minarets Sunrise

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Posted by Eric A. Rosen on April 20, 2006 at 11:56 AM
:wavey: Near Mammoth Lakes, CA is a viewpoint called Minarets View. This is a shot of the Minarets of the Ritter Range of the Sierra Nevada at sunrise...

A very early cloudless morning on October 2005. These was still snow there from the previous winter....

Tech
D2x
70-200VR
ISO 100
Posted by Christian Kiely on April 20, 2006 at 8:40 PM
Nice shot Eric... shooting sunsets behind dark mtns is tough, but I think there's enough detail there for me. I might try some selective contrast adjustment, but I like it as is too.
Posted by Richard Wong on April 22, 2006 at 1:45 PM
There looks to be an overall cast to the image that eats away at the foreground colors. Perhaps your zoom picked up a lot of haze hence the large amount of orange shadow detail.

The Minarets are amazing, but the weather seems to be bad everytime I've been there. It was so windy last fall that I couldn't even set a tripod up. They remind me of the B.C. Rich Warlock Guitar.