Natural light, it was an incredible morning. It had me running round like an idiot all over the place, conditions were that good. But I have edited it to bring up the highlights on the mountain (a little, didn’t need much) and darkened the mist and sky a little to give it a bit more of a “fine art” feel.
The file straight from the camera is a good image all on its own to be honest but I wanted to do something a little different with it.
What I am chuffed about is this was taken at a focal length of 280mm (that’s long) and if you really zoom in there’s a fence climbing up the mountain that is wonderfully sharp along with the texture in the snow.
cool beans. Loving photography in the snow. Trees etc seem to spring into a whole different look and the light plays so beautifully on them.
Phone cameras are fine IMO provided you treat them as you would a camera and not banging out a selfie or some snapshot. There is of course the power of editing software which just opens up numerous worlds off the back of any image to be honest. It becomes a very personal thing too as no two people will edit a photo in the same way.
I hope to have another up tomorrow, taken on the same morning as the one above.
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Hope this helps…
I’ll admit to cheating a little on this one. I’ve swapped the sky on this image. Basically, I had two images taken a minute or two apart, one where the sky was gorgeous but the mountain had a little bit of motion blur while the other had a less spectacular sky but the mountain was tack sharp.
That picture is the visual embodiment of half of the music I listen to, or actually more like four fifths. That’s stunningly beautiful and haunting, I’m in envy of it, I honestly am.
yeah a camera can help because you full control over the image but by far the biggest things with photographs is light and composition. you’ve got the light here. Composition would probably be the only thing I could call out on the image to be honest. Everything else could be tweaked in post processing to make it really jump.
That’s stunningly beautiful and haunting, I’m in envy of it, I honestly am.
