Dylan MacMaster
Autumn Aspen Alpenglow
This is the beginning of my Dr. Zeus alphabet series. Stay tuned next month when I post Beavers Building Barricades. Okay, not really, but when I needed a title for this shot, it just fit, so you can just deal with the tongue twister. :P
This is another of my Sawtooth Mountain shots from a few weeks back when I was up there with Chuck Knowles, Robert Gifford, and Vishwanath Bhat
My first shot on this scene was a 5 minute exposure with clouds throughout the sky (including the upper-right bare spot on this shot) and the sense of movement was incredible. You might be asking yourself, so if it was so great, why didn't he post it? Well, some idiot (yep, that would be me) forgot that he had mirror lockup on when he hit the remote on that 5 minute shot. So the "clunk" I heard was just the mirror locking up, without the accompanying shutter "click". So while I was fishing around in my pack for a Cliff bar for breakfast I missed that shot. I didn't realize my mistake until I went to stop the exposure 5 minutes later. Dooh! With the quickly changing light, I had to drop this shot down to just 2 minutes. Oh well....*sigh*....this one still turned out pretty good I think. If you also look closely, you can see the last fleeting star of the morning in the right half of the frame.
This looks almost HDR-ish, but that's a combination of the even predawn light, 70% luminosity smoothing (lots of noise showed up in the sky) and I also pushed clarity to 80 and vibrance to 50.
Oh, and yes I put the horizon right in the middle of the frame. I still like it anyway,so there you comp nazis. lol.
Autumn Aspen Alpenglow
This is the beginning of my Dr. Zeus alphabet series. Stay tuned next month when I post Beavers Building Barricades. Okay, not really, but when I needed a title for this shot, it just fit, so you can just deal with the tongue twister. :P
This is another of my Sawtooth Mountain shots from a few weeks back when I was up there with Chuck Knowles, Robert Gifford, and Vishwanath Bhat
My first shot on this scene was a 5 minute exposure with clouds throughout the sky (including the upper-right bare spot on this shot) and the sense of movement was incredible. You might be asking yourself, so if it was so great, why didn't he post it? Well, some idiot (yep, that would be me) forgot that he had mirror lockup on when he hit the remote on that 5 minute shot. So the "clunk" I heard was just the mirror locking up, without the accompanying shutter "click". So while I was fishing around in my pack for a Cliff bar for breakfast I missed that shot. I didn't realize my mistake until I went to stop the exposure 5 minutes later. Dooh! With the quickly changing light, I had to drop this shot down to just 2 minutes. Oh well....*sigh*....this one still turned out pretty good I think. If you also look closely, you can see the last fleeting star of the morning in the right half of the frame.
This looks almost HDR-ish, but that's a combination of the even predawn light, 70% luminosity smoothing (lots of noise showed up in the sky) and I also pushed clarity to 80 and vibrance to 50.
Oh, and yes I put the horizon right in the middle of the frame. I still like it anyway,so there you comp nazis. lol.