Sea of fog (mono)

I usually have the firm intention (at least in the back of my mind) to produce at least one 'good' monochrome version, when something nice happens.

Here I thought, ..of course I will use the 720nm infrared panorama for that (as it very often is the 'best'), but not this time.

The trees looked better dark, yet what intrigued me the most were the highlights. There were these strips of light on the fog also, but this does not come out very well due to the shallow angle.

 

To the right there is a 'skiing mountain' which has a good 1000m+ more elevation than this location, with pretty crazy all around long distance vistas. There is some infrastructure, but I don't wann pay for that, so it's usually a looooong hike! And difficult in winter, but kinda nice in summer, which reminds me, that I did an extended IR panorama session up there years ago, yet haven't developed any of it essentially. 😪

 

 

What's fun is that this is an accidental panorama, just two shots in landscape orientation I took before switching lenses, that happen to fit together nicely (which is not surprising on a tripod), 9666 x 3843px, ~37,2MP.

And once again, the cousin of "the worst NIKKOR ever made", ha!

 

Nikon D750 (full frame / FX) + MB-D16

Zoom-NIKKOR 43-86mm f/3.5 AI

ISO100, 43mm, f/8, 1/125sec (-0,3EV)

two shots, regular tripod, manual focus

Done