Eternally

Standing high on the sandstone escarpment, your gaze is into the

setting sun across Lake Superior, in front of you the Miner's Castle

promontory joins your reverie. This photograph was taken during my

annual struggle to prove that I am smarter than a Rainbow Trout. Your

comments and suggestions are welcome.

Who won the battle, Walter, you or the trout?

 

I love the colors and lighting in this one - very nice!

Kim, in contrast to previous struggles, this year I was the victor. But it was close. Thanks for stopping by. Regards.

Great Capture, with an excellent composition!!

With this shot you won, I'd say, and you didn't go home empty handed. Congrats on the shot and the fishing.

This is a winner.Excellent photography..! Very well balanced , between high contrast and shadow areas.

Great shot! Simple but excellent: great composition, colours and contrast. Well done, congrats.

Interesting composition.Nice rocky face.... Pnina

wonderful composition & tones.

Great balance in the exposure above and below the horizon line. Very pleasing composition.

thanks, I was wondering if anyone else would notice that "Stone Face" looking into the sun. But I guess it is just you and me. Regards.

Nice shot, Walter. Yes, I see the stone face.

 

I was wondering if you would upload the photo before it was treated with Neat Image.

sorry, I can't do that with this one. I ran the original file (about 195 Mbytes) into Neat Image and then trashed it to save disk space. All I have is the filtered version. I will try to upload a comparison of something else in the future. If I do, I will let you know. Regards.

I'm just browsing your presentation, and I really enjoy this photo. A very unique landscape and sunset, extremely beautiful. The "face" is particularly intriguing aswell. I love your work with Fuji Velvia, a film that (from what I've read) produces very saturated and strong colours, and can be hard to work with; but you have controlled colour balance and saturation perfectly in each photo made with this film. BTW, I'm interested in knowing what Neat Image is.?

 

Excellent image.

I hope you got my email. The best way, I think, to tell you about Neat Image is for you to just visit their Web site (www.neatimage.com). It is not the only program of its kind out there, but I think it works very well. Regards.

I rarely like an open sunset without any clouds and the sun this high up. This one is an exception. It also proves that there are NO hard and fast rules in this craft. It simply works for me because each part of the scene here maintains a very simplistic theme. In this day and age we can all use a bit more of that! Colors are nice as well. I really like how you kept a great measure of detail in the foreground rocks. Very well composed and captured Walt!

Congratulations on a beautiful study Walter! (By the way, I am getting on fine with my Multi-Pro scanner now - my thanks again!).

Good to hear that...the Multi Pro is a nice piece of gear. Regards.

This is a very nice simple, semi-graphic composition.

 

I'm a little confused about one thing though. The two sections of rock are silhouetted whereas the remainder of the foreground holds lots of shadow detail. How did this occur? Was the grad pulled down past the horizon, resulting in additional darkening of those areas? Did you perform extensive shadow recovery on most of the foreground but leave those two areas?

Great capture of a beautiful, serene scene, Walter! Looks like another 7/7 to me. (-;

Sorry, I meant to answer your question but got sidetracked. The filter was aligned just below the horizon. The dark upper sections of the landforms are primarily due to a darker shade of sandstone strata. This area in the UP is called Pictured Rocks and the sandstone cliffs look like sandwiches of various shades of rock; very similar to what we see in the American southwest. Some of the darkening, especially around the "throat" of the face on the left, is indeed simply due to shadows. However, you have a keen eye, and I did do some shadow recovery as well. Regards.

one more idea. You can get a different perspective of this scene from my Miner's Castle photograph. "Eternally" was taken from just behind the Castle rock. The highlights in that are a little blocked-up but I think you can get an idea of the different rock strata. Hope this helps. Regards.

Hi Walter! Late to this image, but well, I've been busy;-)

 

I agree with Vince's assesment..the balance here is wonderful. I love the foreground colors, too.

Walter, thanks for the explanation. I think you may have overdone the foreground dodging, since it leaves the two stark silhouetted areas looking a little odd. A lighter touch with the shadow tool would have made for a more coherent result.

 

Nice photograph though.

Sadly, this well-known rock structure no longer exists. In the Spring of 2006, after weathering from Lake Superior's blasts, it fell into the water below. I always looked forward to visiting this area during my annual fishing trip up north. It is like an old friend has been lost. Regards.