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[HikinMike]

Taken along highway 395 on my way home from my Lone Pine, CA trip last week....

5D, 70-200mm f/4L, ISO 400, f/11, 1/500

 

[KmH]

There is not enough contrast between the sky and the mountain for my taste.

I'd be dodgin' those hills.

 

[icassell]

Mike, I like this but agree with Keith about the mountain-sky contrast. Maybe a bit of lightening up the sky would help it.

 

[HikinMike]

I personally like the darker sky, but I can see what you're talking about.

 

[Derrel]

You mean that's not from an Ansel Adams glass plate negative from his Korona camera, that you bought at a garage sale in Fresno 10 years ago???

 

[LaFoto]

I take it, this is a photo taken with the polarising filter turned to its FULL effect, then worked at in colour until it was really contrasty and brilliant, and THEN converted into a very contrasty black&white?

I think there is enough contrast between mountains and sky, though the very dark sky makes one stop and think for a moment. But stop and think is never bad when it comes to viewing photos, is it?

 

[HikinMike]

I take it, this is a photo taken with the polarising filter turned to its FULL effect, then worked at in colour until it was really contrasty and brilliant, and THEN converted into a very contrasty black&white?

I think there is enough contrast between mountains and sky, though the very dark sky makes one stop and think for a moment. But stop and think is never bad when it comes to viewing photos, is it?

No CP on this one. I processed it as a regular color image, then converted it into a BW. It's late and I don't have Photoshop opened, but I'll post the color version tomorrow.

 

[LaFoto]

Then how did you get the darkness of the sky and the brightness in the patches of snow, I wonder? How can you create such a distinct "polariser effect" in post? It genuinely interests me.

 

[HikinMike]

Here's the color version. I used two Curves, one for the background and one for the foreground and added a little Saturation. I used Channel Mixer in CS2 to convert it to black in white (170, -14, -60 and -2).

Feel free to suggest/show another conversion.