Mt Tom and Owens River Eastern Sierra

Mountains are big and your perspective of them can certainly change

with a lens. I wanted to make the almost 10k feet from the from

viewpoint to the top of the peak to be felt. All of its ridges and

gullies are endless, there can't be a person who has explored that

whole mountain, there is so much nearby that would steal one's

attention. It speaks about it's dominance to its surroundings and

fools the viewer into thinking this river you see is fed me (Mt Tom). ~

We shot a couple of different scenes along the Bends of the Owens

River in the Eastern Sierra during the last private workshop. Showed

them this scene in the middle of the day and they weren't too keen on

shooting it but when we returned the next morning they seemed to enjoy

it a heck of lot more!

Fabulous - Congrats!

This looks great Steve, I think the scale of the mountain comes through in this without dominating. The light and the red/blue colour combo are really nice.

Gary.

Great! I like the way you kept it dark and moody the way it probably was and didn't lighten it up too much. Regards. Jim

I like the lighting and how the reds on the mountain match the red of the branches.

Steve, what strikes me most about this is the light.  Your technical details note 30 seconds at f/16 at 7:41am on January 28.  Sunrise was roughly 7am that day, so I assume you used a solid ND (and perhaps a grad for the foreground) to slow the shutter?  And, assuming you used a solid ND, this leads to another question: why did you feel that 30 seconds was better than a faster shutter speed?  Thanks, Jeff

Sorry Jeff but the time stamp is off by an hour here.   It was before 7am so I'm sure this was pretty mind boggling for you.