A winter storm #2

This is the Orco river in the Gran Paradiso National Park, Italy. I

took this picture in a late afternoon last week, while it was snowing.

This is a stitch of 4 vertical frames, for a full size image of about

35 Mp. Be sure to see the larger size, compression really hurts in

images like this.

 

Your C&C are as always highly appreciated, thanks in advance for your

time.

 

Details: Eos 50D, Zeiss Planar *T 50mm f1,4, tripod. Double exposure

blending and stitching

excellent work

Paolo, this is an exceptional winter image! Your treatment of the snow, it's texture and color are perfect. The exposure is spot on and the dark stream is such a nice contrast element for the total scene. This is 7/7 for sure and into my favorite photos, now!

 

Best regards,

 

Dick

Great 'WinterScape' Paolo. DOF shows excellent processing of the snow and river. Just enough color to make a fine contrast against the snow. 7/7

Wonderful detail, and I like the color throughout that contrasts with the white of the snow.

Beautiful image and moment. What about a vertical format? Regards.

the snowy rocks at right are amazing! likes me a lot an are perfect exposed. regards!

Yes it is true, you could never gather all of the incredible info in thus image from a 1000 pixel wide web preview. Even so, I know just how good this is. The hints of color with the perfectly exposed snow is brilliant. I can even see the faint detail of the distant mountains. You mention "double exposure blending". I take it you are blending two exposures for increased dynamic range. In this case, perhaps to provide detail in the distant mountains and to hold detail in the snow? Curious to know if these are manually blended and if so, what are your methods without going into a great amount of explanation. I have been blending images for some time now and I have left the grads in the bag. My images are cleaner than ever, in most cases noiseless, even in extreme conditions. How is this working for you?