Wrangell Mountains 4

Any comments or ratings are appreciated! :-)

This is it ... the very last one ... the final image from Alaska from my road trip last summer (good thing, as it took almost a year to get through them!!)

 

Now, I still have a couple of pictures (maybe) to give you from the 2 week drive back (but, then again, maybe not). And, as I work on my Photoshopping skills this summer, I may revisit some Alaska images, or even upload images that I had skipped over the first time. But, I have given you what I think are the best images that I got there.

 

My task, over the next few weeks, will now be to weed them out and get my portfolio back down to a respectable size (right, Els?). Thanks for sticking with me through this journey.

 

What will I shoot next..........??????????

Thanks for sharing all those photos that have made me visit Alaska with you and acquire a knowledge on Alaska that otherwise, would have been impossible for me.

There will be a lot to shoot, and I hope you will have fun working with photo shop. I still don't understand what I am doing in paint shop. But it is fun to do, perhaps that's the most important thing.

 

Lou Ann, revisiting older photos is good, too. When you keep playing with PS, you will learn new things that can enhance some of the images you may not have thought were worth a second look. And, if you truly have the "bug" to shoot pictures, you'll find images wherever you look.

Come to Michigan and visit! You can go lighthousing with me! :) In all seriousness, there is a 2-day lighthouse cruise in August I am going on in the UP of Michigan.

 

This is a nice shot. Nicely detailed and profiled.

very good mountainscape!!!

Jen - this will actually be the first year in the past several that I won't be in Michigan with family at any point. Well ... at least I don't have any plans as of yet. One of these days, though, I am going to spend a summer doing a tour of the Michigan coast lines ... lighthouses and seascapes ... and lots of advice from you and from David. :-)

This is a good photograph to end the series with! It has a nice balance of foreground and sky, and Wrangell appears very majestic. I am looking forward to seeing what you do over the summer with PS. Regards.

Wonderful. It's hard to get a good exposure on snow mountains, because partial over-exposure posts a possible challenge for many of us, but this one did it right. Congrats.

Lou Ann, Thanks for sharing all your Alaska shots with us. You have created a memorable series and I now know a lot more about the place than before! I will also be revisiting some of my earlier uploads and using my (hopefully) improved PS skills to re-present them. So what's next?? regards - Colin

Actually this is a relatively straightforward and mediocre composition. In a shot like this, without the proper filtering tools, it is an impossible task to try and cast an exposure balance between a dark foreground and bright white background. The mountain is over exposed- that simple. In your situation, you should have exposed properly for the highlights of the mountain and let the dark foreground fall where it may. TO make this shot work, you need detail in the white snow, not detailess white. ALso, as you said, your choice of film makes it impossible to capture a truly prime landscape shot like this.

It's beautiful! I like it!

that is an beautiful amazing shot...very well done