Snowy Colorado Mountain in the Clouds

cgipson1 · Jun 6, 2012

Another shot from this past weekend. Off Highway 14 heading about an hour east of Walden Co. First time using Silver Efex Pro... comments definitely welcome

Snowy Colorado Mountain by CGipson Photography, on Flickr

Again.. looks better on Flickr!

TheKenTurner · Jun 6, 2012

Great shot! I just find the forest to be a bit too dark

-ken Turner

Ernicus · Jun 6, 2012

I'm guessing the dark parts of the forrest are shadows from clouds,..i kinda like. I do like the clouds, wonder if the snow can be a bit whiter. Why does the edge of the mountains against the sky look fake-ish? almost too finite, like a perfect line. Did you select the sky and edit it to bring out the clouds more?

unpopular · Jun 6, 2012

ver, very, very nice. one of the best b/w i've seen since film.

cgipson1 · Jun 6, 2012

TheKenTurner said:
Great shot! I just find the forest to be a bit too dark

-ken Turner

I was questioning that too.. but with the variances in tone from the overhead clouds.. anything lighter started look fake to me. Might give it another go though....

cgipson1 · Jun 6, 2012

Ernicus said:
I'm guessing the dark parts of the forrest are shadows from clouds,..i kinda like. I do like the clouds, wonder if the snow can be a bit whiter. Why does the edge of the mountains against the sky look fake-ish? almost too finite, like a perfect line. Did you select the sky and edit it to bring out the clouds more?

Yep.. dark parts are cloud cover! I could lighten the snow a touch more.. just didn't want to blow it out. The edge of the ridges had the snow melted off.. that was one of the things I liked about this, was how defined the rock was against the clouds. You are right though.. it does look a bit fake. I might have oversharpened a hair too...

Blairg · Jun 6, 2012

Great looking photo one day I will be able to do that

cgipson1 · Jun 6, 2012

unpopular said:
ver, very, very nice. one of the best b/w i've seen since film.

Unpopular... thank you! I really like this shot... and I think I am really going to like Silver Efex Pro! It makes the conversions much easier than PS does... better control and all!

cgipson1 · Jun 6, 2012

Blairg said:
Great looking photo one day I will be able to do that

Thanks! Just takes lots of practice, and some good lenses!

IByte · Jun 6, 2012

Someone been playing around with those color filters. Very good plugin software. I'm going to have to review the photo more. It kind of reminds of a film negative before it's processed.

cgipson1 · Jun 6, 2012

IByte said:
Someone been playing around with those color filters. Very good plugin software. I'm going to have to review the photo more. It kind of reminds of a film negative before it's processed.

lol.. Busted! Glad you like it!

unpopular · Jun 6, 2012

I think I will stick to traditional methods. But this is a very impressive conversion nonetheless. Congrats on the image

RE the trees, I'd like to see a little more detail in some areas, but overall mean luminance should remain similar.

IByte · Jun 7, 2012

unpopular said:
I think I will stick to traditional methods. But this is a very impressive conversion nonetheless. Congrats on the image

RE the trees, I'd like to see a little more detail in some areas, but overall mean luminance should remain similar.

Good point on the trees. The trees detail would made my eyes lead the way to the mountain top.

cgipson1 · Jun 7, 2012

Unpopular and Ibyte... if you would like to download and edit the shot.. feel free to do so. I would like to see what you come up with . I could make the larger Flickr shot available if you prefer....