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High Mountain Splendor
High Mountain Splendor
Brent_S


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Challenge: Best of 2011 (Advanced Editing VII)
Camera: Canon EOS-5D Mark II
Lens: Canon EF 17-40mm f/4L USM
Date: Aug 28, 2011
Aperture: 14.0
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/20
Date Uploaded: Feb 8, 2012

 This was captured in the waning days of summer about half way up Mount Rainier. It was a beautiful warm day with mostly blue skies when these great clouds came streaking in over the summit for just a short while.

I was there that day to scout potential locations to shoot for the WPL which was starting very soon. Unfortunately I never found time to make it back up to this spot for my team. So this handheld "test shot" is what I am going with given I didn't get to any other spots as spectacular as this during the year. Sure wish I had brought my monopod with me for this shoot, but it is what it is.

Really tough getting high quality under 300kb with all this texture. My processing is a bit heavy here based on a personal hunch that most voters will be expecting some "all out" processing for a "best of". I am the only one who has seen this image and how I processed it as I am about to face the wrath of the voters. I hope I don't find out I should have processed it more conservatively once voting begins :P

Post Vote:

Oops!
I was under the effect of strong pain medication when I post processed this image, yeah that's it…pain medication ;)
I do appreciate all the comments I received which were really quite kind all things considered.

Statistics
Place: 217 out of 410
Avg (all users): 5.7927
Avg (commenters): 6.8696
Avg (participants): 5.7044
Avg (non-participants): 6.2093
Views since voting: 324
Views during voting: 457
Votes: 246
Comments: 28
Favorites: 0

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 02/24/2012 10:46:20 AM
I usually detest over processed images. I liked this one and gave it a 9. Despite the over processing, I'm surprised its finished as low as it did.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
02/23/2012 09:45:48 AM
A bit overdone on my screen.
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 02/22/2012 06:44:01 PM
Amazing scenery and sky, love the flowers (lupins?). A tad over processed for my tastes.
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 02/18/2012 10:07:14 PM
What an amazing view. Including the foreground flowers and the hikers is a great choice.

I'm not a fan of the extreme sharpening in this photo. Takes away from the naturalness.
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 02/18/2012 10:12:54 AM
Very interesting subject and a well composed image, though this is a bit over-processed for my taste.
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 02/18/2012 01:57:03 AM
Lovely scene, bright and crisp, good composition. A bit heavy handed on the saturation and HDR
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 02/17/2012 11:18:51 PM
Wonderful color and detail and sky. Love the purple, red, and yellow flowers, the brown trail, the tan rocks.
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 02/17/2012 08:26:30 AM
Wow, what an overwhelming explosion of color! Amazing!
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 02/16/2012 05:40:13 PM
Viewing on my laptop which isn't a perfect representation (so not voting), but you've got an amazing scene and photo, but to me it is a bit overcooked. I'd imagine you'd need some exposure blending/HDR work to not blow out the clouds and still get good color in the foreground flowers, but the colors seem just a bit too much.

Nice story with the hikers, as well.
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 02/16/2012 03:09:16 PM
The processing is to over the top fro my taste, however, that being said, it is a well composed image with a lovely scene.
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 02/15/2012 10:35:53 PM
love the lines and the way the eye jumps around and then finds everything but still my eyes can't sit still.
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 02/15/2012 03:59:53 PM
Love the colors and the way the image is split into 3... but maybe a bit overworked for my tastes.
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 02/14/2012 11:10:33 PM
Whoa! So... much!!

It's a tiny bit hard on the eyes... but... I love the capture and the sky.
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 02/14/2012 04:14:04 PM
Love the oveall composition of this. Love the colors. The clouds seem a little overdone to me and are stealing away from the rest of the scene.
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 02/14/2012 01:23:16 PM
way overprocessed for my liking.
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 02/14/2012 10:46:20 AM
This was my #1 for the challenge and I hope it does well - it's just breathtaking.
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 02/13/2012 10:05:12 PM
A glorious place, day, sky. But it's all processed so extremely there's no place to rest my eyes. They keep racing all over this image.
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 02/13/2012 05:12:29 PM
wow love the juxtaposed rocky bleakness and the flowering meadow, the skys a little to hdr'd but still a 9 from me0
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 02/11/2012 05:56:40 PM
Now that is starkness.
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 02/11/2012 05:23:48 PM
gorgeous scene and composition but the image seems a bit overprocessed to me such that the light does not seem balanced between the sky (overly darkened), the mountain, and the slope on the right
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 02/10/2012 11:59:17 PM
Wow! eye popping!!
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 02/10/2012 11:53:36 PM
Very colorful! I like the flowers on one side, snow on the other.
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 02/10/2012 01:11:38 PM
wow, you've really captured it all in this one, it's striking
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 02/10/2012 12:51:56 PM
It's a great image. Love the sky and flowers. The people are okay, but I might have left them out. They do lend scale to the scene, but the mountain and snow might have loomed larger w/o the yardstick. Just really great overall. Hope this ribbons for you. 10
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 02/10/2012 11:32:11 AM
I love the scenery, but the HDR just kills this.
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 02/10/2012 10:05:44 AM
This is almost 3-D. I like it. Great clouds.
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 02/10/2012 09:25:03 AM
Sorry but the post processing is definately not to my taste, it´s just way over the top, just makes the image way too busy and there is no single thing that draws the eye, just makes it bit of a chaos. Shame, I think I would have liked this image with a much more "conventional" post processing.
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 02/10/2012 01:43:22 AM
oh wow
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