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Equipment & Techniques => Landscape & Nature Photography => Topic started by: Jon Meddings on January 06, 2013, 06:38:57 pm

Title: Castle Mountain in Winter
Post by: Jon Meddings on January 06, 2013, 06:38:57 pm

This is a lovely little area just outside of Lake Louise in the Canadian Rockies.  We often seem to end up there in the winter and this was a very cool afternoon at -20C.  However, there are some warm springs just upstream that keep the water open.

(http://www.pbase.com/meddings/image/148206495.jpg)

Jon Meddings
Calgary

Title: Re: Castle Mountain in Winter
Post by: sdwilsonsct on January 06, 2013, 06:41:29 pm

Fine shot, Jon.

Title: Re: Castle Mountain in Winter
Post by: shaunw on January 07, 2013, 01:42:21 pm

Wonderful scene/good comp...just looks a little soft to me?

Shaun

Title: Re: Castle Mountain in Winter
Post by: Jon Meddings on January 07, 2013, 03:55:56 pm

Thanks Scott.

Shaun, the softness is all in the jpeg conversion (and I guess the size) It is crystal sharp on the screen from the little snow-covered tree top up close out to the mountain.  The image ( I forgot to say) is a composite of 25 different shots stitched and blended. Focus was done with hyperfocal focussing rather than focus blending (and it was cold enough I didn't want to put the T/S on!).  I really should have uploaded a bigger image - my apologies.

Title: Re: Castle Mountain in Winter
Post by: Matt Tilghman on January 08, 2013, 12:58:30 am

Nice!  I only wish the trees on the left weren't cropped.