Ponds just under Piute Pass

Again, amazing colors and contrast...

I have seen few of your images. Absolutely fantastic, those colours are unbelievable.

How do you do it ?

It's called shootin' through a zillion rolls of film and praying to God Almighty that one turns out! :^D As you know, it's all about magical lighting, and as you can see from many of my pics, I take plenty of shots in lousy lighting but upload them anyway! Since I don't use much in the way of filters (other than the occassional GND's to balance harsh light/shadows), I rely a lot on just being out enjoying the wilderness with my camera and snappin' plenty of shots when the light turns magical. Thanks for the nice words!

Looks like bad filtering.

must have used a cokin grad ND. that would explain the purple cast.

 

 

FYI... on this shot I used the only GND I had at the time, which was a 3-stop hard. I lined it up with the obvious shadow. It wasn't the filter to use, but it's all I had on me. It darkened the mountains too much. There was just a strip of light in the middle, shadows in front and behind. The GND brand was a Singh-Ray. These mountains already have a reddish tint to them, so the hard 3-stop really seemed to bring it out. Thanks for the comments!

I guess what we see as purple snow and blue shadows (rocks in the foreground) is the the combination of cool color temperature in the shadows, intense UV/blue light in the High Sierra and high contrast and saturation of Provia F. I had exactly the same thing happening with Provia when taking pictures there. Except for the Grad-ND effect (which is overdone IMHO) I will testify that things look like that up there and it's beautiful !

You have some fine images in this folder.