On Thursday, November 03, 2011 3:28 PM, "Alastair Robertson" <[email protected]> wrote: > https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/vmqC1uGo6XxogK4zXBBbzQ?feat=directlink > > This is taken at Waimangu Valley - a geothermal rift valley in the > central North Island, New Zealand. The mist is in fact steam from two > crater lakes. A very interesting place to visit. > > Tech Details: K10D, F70-210 @170mm, F8.0, 1/90, ISO100 > > RAW file converted to BW and processed in Lightroom 3.5 >
That's a really intriguing image. My first thought was that it's too dark but on looking at it in some detail, it's the contrast between highlights and shadow, and the texture in the clouds of steam that make it so interesting. The trees look like billowing black smoke. Excellent! Cheers Brian ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/ > Comments welcome > > Alastair > > -- > 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. > -- -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Faster than the air-speed velocity of an unladen european swallow -- 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.
