Walt Gilbert wrote: >On 10/17/2011 11:10 AM, Stan Halpin wrote: >> On Oct 17, 2011, at 11:04 AM, Mark Roberts wrote: >> >>> School has kept me too busy for a long while but it's time I put some >>> new stuff on my web page so here's a shot from this past spring. Late >>> sprint (May 20 to be precise) there was still -- barely -- enough snow >>> on Mount Washington for some die hards to ski Tuckermen Ravine. They >>> were rewarded with about 10 seconds and a couple of hundred yards of >>> skiing in return for their several-hour hike. Meanwhile down below the >>> snow melt made for some nice photography of various streams and >>> rivers, especially on a foggy morning: >>> http://www.robertstech.com/pages/fotoblog/7db01117.htm >>> >> I don't know what the difference is, but I find this shot very appealing >> despite my strong bias against flowing-water shots. Maybe you've used a >> relatively short exposure here? In any case, nice work. >> >There's a tonality in this one that you don't normally see in any shots, >let alone flowing water shots. I suspect that may have a great deal to >do with it. It's just beautifully rendered -- at least to my eye.
Thanks. The tonality was what I was really going for. The light was amazing (there's no clipping even in the brightest parts of the water) but it still took a lot of subtle-but-time-consuming work in Photoshop to get the tonality you see here. Another think I like about it is that it's both a high-contrast shot and a low-contrast shot: It starts very high contrast in the foreground and gets progressively less contrasty with greater distance, due to the fog. The shutter speed *was* relatively short: 1/4 second at f/22 (ISO 100) with the DA*16-50/2.8 on the K5. I think this will make a nice print on the new Epson R3000. -- Mark Roberts - Photography & Multimedia www.robertstech.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
