Nice. Probably taken from about the same spot. I have some similar looks taken late morning. We weren't sure if we needed evening or morning looks, so I shoot it from about 6 PM to 9PM and again from 4AM to 7AM. I remember that there was a small structure up there. Don't recall much else. It was summer, so there were no skiers. Paul On Apr 20, 2007, at 12:23 AM, Mark Erickson wrote:
> Paul's Minarets picture inspired me to dig into my archives and do > some work > on a shot I took last fall. I grew up on the east side of the > southern > Sierra Nevada and hiked, fished, and skied a lot in the mountains > between > Lone Pine and Mammoth. In high school I skied Mammoth 20-30 days > per year, > so the Minarets and Mts. Ritter and Banner were familiar sights. > After an > absence of more than a decade when I went back last fall and took a > bunch of > pictures. > > The URLs below link to a composite made from two shots taken with > my *ist-Ds > and FA 77 Ltd lens hand-held at F/8. Man, that lens is sharp! The > sky was > an crisp, pure blue with no clouds--not exactly Ansel Adams' most > favored > condition for dramatic mountain scenes. To make things a little more > interesting I went black and white with a real emphasis on red to > darken the > sky. The originals were taken RAW. The only other processing I > did was to > stitch the photos together with Photoshop and apply a little Smart > Sharpen. > Apologies in advance to those without 1280-pixel wide monitors. > > http://www.westerickson.net/mark/misc/MinaretsRitterBannerMedium.jpg > > The large is the full size version if you want to pixel peep. I > don't think > that the Bayer pattern de-mosiac algorithms do very well with > really fine > detail like pine needles. A Foveon sensor or dedicated black and > white > camera would have probably done much better... > > http://www.westerickson.net/mark/misc/MinaretsRitterBannerLarge.jpg > > --Mark > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
