mountains - valais The long way ahead

At the end of the approach march, the start of the glacier. One will

have to rope up, get crampons on and ice axe at hand, and follow it

all the way to climb, early the next morning, the mountain at the

horizon: a long way ahead.

 

Does the picture convey this message? And the joy of alpinism, to

finally see your target, indeed, "a long way ahead"? Comments on the

composition are extremly welcome... Thanks! s.

Nice, imho underrated picture: the snow lines on the "moraine" converge and lift your eye up to the summit. I guess I've been on that summit at least 15 times but that's a rewarding one. Three small remarks, as I'm trying to be useful (but tell me if I'm not or seem to get noisy): (i) it is slightly underexposed (you could correct this without any difficulty using Photoshop or - much better and handier for quick fixes - with irfanview, an easy to use shareware). (ii) Noon isn't probably the best time of day for photography. (iii) your buddy's stance. See you later ! cheers chris

Chris, thanks.

 

(i) the exposure does not look so terrible to me. Actually, I think I even darkened it a bit in PS, the maximum I know how to do with it. I usually take for reference to get some more or less white snow (in the center of the picture), the red of her bandanna and the black trousers, and get them more ore less of the true colours...

 

(ii) I agree completely, midday (actually must have been around 11am) is not the perfect time for this activity!

 

(iii) Which posture would you have liked most? No sticks held sideways for equilibrium? Joint feet? I'm quite curious about this point.

 

a+, s.

She not he... oh I'm so sorry. I'll change my eyeware, increase the screen contrast and shall in the future look at all your pics in the "large" format :-) Again, this picture is geometrically speaking pretty nice and I like it. I still maintain the sky and the brighter parts might be a bit lighter (maybe, learn to use the PS color dodging/burning instruments and the progressive layers, they are worth it). As to her posture, well, it was not obvious at first sight which posture it was actually intended to be or at least, it seemed a bit unnatural. But as I told you... my eyeware. A+ c.

Chris, I told her, you're forgiven.

 

I still remember when I was dodging and burning with the hands and a cronometer in the darkroom...

I agree with the point that selective enhancement could do well here, and I should get around doing some, but I also spend enough time in front of a screen to find little motivation to spend even more with post-processing... let's wait for bad weather in Fall.

 

Thanks for this and all other comments,

 

s.