Crystal Mill

The Road to Crystal is about 8 miles long, And strictly a 4 wheel

drive trail. The road actually makes about an 11 mile loop via

Lead King basin, but the full loop should only be tried by idiots in

Jeeps, Not all Jeep drivers are idiots, And not all idiots drive

Jeeps (I Drive an 82 Toyota Land Cruise And am Frequently

Referred to as Idiot) I am talking about those who do dumb

things after being warned. Do NOT attempt to take the road past

Crystal up to Scholfield Park, unless you both know what you're

doing, and you are also crazy. This portion of the road is known

as the Punch Bowl, And should be closed. There are deaths (17

at last count) or very serious accidents every year. However if you

need Jeep parts there are two Jeeps one on top of the other

about a mile east of Crystal, And about 100 feet straight down

from the road. OK I guess you don't have to be crazy to drive this

road, But it dose help!

 

 

Oh Ya Im supposed to ask you what you think of the photograph.

This is absolutely brilliant. One of the nicest bw landscapes I've seen on photo.net--it would definately be hanging on my wall. Question: exposure time? I'm guessing around a second? Filters? Yellow?

Exposure Time Well You Nailed It One Second @ f/32

 

Filters Nope Just Provia 100 Color Film, It's The Best Black & White Film Money Can Buy.

In Photoshop I did the equivalent of using a yellow filter.

 

Color Film has less range but if your exposure is right on that dose not matter.

 

This makes me miss home. I have been here with my Dad back in the 80's wonderful place to see. I have seen several photographs of the mill but non this striking. Very nice!

Fantastic picture !! So busy, yet it doesn't seem to be at all, since everything stands out magically and take its place in a perfect composition. Now that's really the black & white nature shot of such a subject that I've seen here in a long long while. Hats off !

I just realized this was Provia--I should read the description. Thanks. I wish you would have taken it on black and white, but it's wonderful either way.

I agree with the above coment this is one of the best shots I've seen on this site

Wow. I'm blown away. Photo of the Week time.

It's a top photo. Nothing to pick on. Flawless composition and tonality and a great mood!!

This is simply one of the most finest IR and long term exposure pics I have seen in a long time. Excellent work!

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impressive !

 

I've seen it before, but that takes nothing away from the technically proficient job you did here. I wish it was a straight B&W so I could get a nice fibre print but I guess this will have to do. Truly a beautiful image.

Beautiful capture!

Just a masterpiece!

This gets my vote for POW...an awe inspiring photo. Can we PLEEASE see a color version as well?

An original treatment of an oft photographed site! Until I read the details I was guessing you had used IR film, so the bright leaves mean it was "Aspen Season". Could you post the color version in your folder somewhere though; I'd like to compare it this. Perfect exposure for water!

Striking !

 

 

Actually commenting on the photographer's comment: You made me smile with your C.W. McCall reference--thanks for that! "4-Wheel Drive," indeed!

 

Now for the photo: Great tonality. Great placement of subjects in the frame. I'm wondering, though, how it might have looked if shot from below with a wider lens, allowing the structure to grow away from the camera. Would it even have been possible to climb down that fall? Or am I asking for trouble?

 

Either way, nice work!

Fascinating! In my quest to view attractive MF black and white photography, I went to check out this photo and found that my father has a color version of this on his wall where the shutter speed was much faster so the water is "frozen" and the picture is from the '70's or so. Quite the treat to see that someone has gone back to get such an inspiring photo (and one I prefer over the color photo my father has-I think one of his colleagues took it). Fantastic!

fantastic . one of best bw I agree, pow also

Lovely composition and technique, but the tonality worries me somehow. The over-bright highlights cause my eye to dart fretfully around the image, without coming to rest. I suspect PS channel mixer tweaking is responsible for that, although I'm sure a b&w emulsion would yield a more satisfying tonal range. Given the camera being used, it's hard to understand why a b&w exposure wasn't made at the same time as the colour one. Without seeing an original print however, it's difficult to judge the true quality of this fine image.

Well done

 

I Used the HUE and Saturation tool to darken the blue's, lighten the yellow's and grayscale the image. If I took it in Black & White with a yellow filter it would look just like this, No PS channel mixer tool was used. My Photoshop dose not have this tool Im using PS Version 3.1.5 it has every thing that I need nothing more nothing less.

Excellent composition and details. Congrat. and Regards.