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The magic of Moraine Lake. Here is one of several glimpses! Enjoy,

savor.

Eye catching, but a little to fake and contrasty. I liked it at first, but it get cheesier by the minute

Please leave your comments on your self-portrait on your own page. Thanks.

 

Nothing cheezy about reality. Sorry your experience doesn't transport you to the unusual.

 

 

Nice to see some more shots frmo you. I expect Charles's reaction is because he's never experienced such a sight. Neither have I but I have no reason to doubt that you created the image naturally. Can you share some technical details behind the image? It's one of the most unique images I've ever seen.

Certainly; what would you like to know?

Very nice composition and light ... but I wonder what the shot would have been with the dock bare. Did you take one? Thanks ... :-)

Not possible; the canoes are rented during the day and stowed at night. This was a sunset shot. Look at one of my other Moraine fotos--you'll see some canoeing on an 'Endless Journey'. Thanks for looking!

Technical details-I wondered how you got the canoes so bright when the surroundings are much darker. Also the sky is so dark when there is still light on the mountains. Thanks!

Here's a trick that you won't see in 'Outdoor Photographer':

 

1) take a split ND filter;

2) attach polarizer;

3)Let the bottom 'half' of the FOV be exposed first with the polarizer;

4) Flip the split on the ND filter;

5) Wait a bit;

6)take the second (of the intermittent) exposure(s) on that frame.

 

The result is that the water/canoes end up being exposed on the first of the two exposures, with the water dark from the polarizer. The mountains end up exposed very litle.

 

And in the second of the intermittent exposures, the canoes are dark, with less reflection of the mountains. But the mountains are exposed.

 

That's how to do it. Takes some trial and error to judge this.

 

Remember: this is all on one frame, with a 'double exposure' at the same location separated by many, many minutes. That is the 'intermittent exposure' technique. Astronomers commonly do intermittent exposures. That's my professional background.

 

Not a lot of light from higher elevation skys when there's no water vapor or dust to scatter light. It got dark pretty quickly that night, albeit at 10 o'clock PM!

little high on satration

What is 'satration'?

 

If you mean 'saturation', then I disagree. It works perfectly in conveying my personal vision.

 

You might like BW fotos, they are unsaturated.

Wow that's complicated. I don't take proper scenic photos. I mostly use my digicam to take photos of the kids. But your method sounds like a lot of effort and it must be very error prone with the exposure levels too. Could you take the same frames on a digital camera and then combine them on the computer to achieve the same outcome but more reliably?

I have never tried such stitching, so I couldn't tell you.

 

Photography is primarily a control of light. If you wish to do that through IP, that's fine.I have seen very, very few competent IP photographers, for the simple reason that they press buttons and don't understand dynamic range; deconvolution; noise; and so on.

 

I would say one shot in 3 comes out the way I want. Thirty years ago that was probably one shot in 100. Forty years ago it was one shot in 400, which for a kid, is essentially once in a blue moon.

 

This was done on film. I now have a Canon 20D and am customizing settings to emulate my film efforts.

 

Good photos mean you have to 'think' like a camera, rather than the camera 'thinking' like a person. The better digital cameras actually are pretty good in both areas, surprisingly.

 

If it was easy, then why do it?:-)

Here's a digital image of Mt Rainier, approaching my personal vision that I go for on film.

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