That's a really appealing image. The composition is excellent with the mountain peak placed well to give the image overall balance.
I think the dark foreground provides a nice contrast with the mountain image. The light clouds are a bonus! Cheers Brian ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://members.westnet.com.au/brianwal/SL/ On Sat, 31 Oct 2009 02:42 -0400, eactiv...@aol.com wrote: > I just got back from a little 3 1/2 - 4 day trip to Yosemite. > > I went 3 years ago in October and discovered then it was much easier to > get in the fall. So I thought I'd try it again. Only this time it was > MUCH > colder and I found it hard to walk around and take shots, I got so > chilled. > > The second day it warmed up a little and there were clouds! (The first > day > and three years ago there were none, which is-not-good.) > > Yosemite is dynamic range problem, the rocks reflect back a lot of light > and the pine trees are very dark. Three years ago I blew out tons of > shots. > This time around I used exposure lock as much as possible. Made a big > difference. > > The title of this is more how I feel about it than anything -- that > there > were clouds and that exposure lock was helping me solving the bright > rock > problem. > > This Half Dome taken in a field near Camp Curry. Not a preferred place > to > take it. Probably because nothing shows scale. The only thing that shows > scale is that those little green things on top are pine trees. > > http://www.mapphotography.com/PAWS/pages/halfdomepow.htm > > Comments welcome. > > Marnie aka Doe :-) > > -- -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Same, same, but different... -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
