Wildflowers on High

A beautiful image of a beautiful place. The moody sky really makes the colors sing, and the red in the mountain is frosting on the cake. In an ideal world it would have been nice to have the extreme foreground in sharper focus, but that would have been hard on a dark day like this. It might be interesting to try cropping a bit off the bottom of the frame--that might make the soft focus on the lupine foliage less noticeable, though the trade-off would be the loss of some of the dark moments in the extreme foreground. Where was the photo taken?

very beautiful

Nicely don, beautiful image.

-BLM.

Bella Leslie and Mehmet

Thanks for looking. This was taken at Paradise Mt Rainer in WA state. I did a bit more of a foreground crop and I see plus and minuses to both. Mark 

Mark, this is an excellent image.  About the DOF, I don't understand what the weather would have to do with focus in the foreground.  To me it's the impact of the purple lupines that sets up the drama in the mountains.  The light is quite advantageous here.  The image speaks to me about the beauty and grandeur of nature.  Nicely seen and presented.  Larry

Sorry, that was a pretty cryptic comment on my part. What I meant was that because of the lower ambient light, you have to open up the lens, so you're often working with a smaller depth of field than you might like. With our Cascade storms (and especially the summer ones), you often can't trade off a longer exposure time for a smaller aperture because of the storm winds. Tall flower stalks tend to react to even a small breeze.

The wind was robust and in other scenes where I played around with aperture and shutter speed-- clearly had wind effects on the vegetation. Appreciate the comments