p.1 #1 · One more from Yosemite & a few from a pack trip.
(Update: One more photo added.)
A while back I shared some photographs from an early July visit to the Sierra Nevada in the area betweenTuolumne Meadows and Mono Lake. I have a few more photographs from that adventure, and the first one below is one of them.
The rest come from a backpack trip a week ago.
Years ago I used to regularly travel the backcountry with a group of fellow backpackers. (This is not the photographer group that I’ve mentioned here previously.) One of them put together a four-day trip into an area just east of the Sierra Crest, so I joined them and went into the backcountry again. I’ve included a few photographs from that trip here, too.
(Traveling in the backcountry with non-photographers is always an interesting experience — for them and for me. My schedule is ou and out of the tent a bit after 5:00AM, then photographing for the next two to three hours. By the time I get back to camp they are crawling out of tents and fixing coffee. My evening ritual is similarly odd. I fix dinner around 4:30 or 5:00 and then wander off again, continuing to photograph until the light is gone. They must think I’m a ghost.)
p.1 #3 · One more from Yosemite & a few from a pack trip.
keepclicking wrote:
Dan, sounds like a fun trip. Dawn, Pond and Mountains really stands out. Really liking your minimalist PP.
Thanks! It is always great to get up among the lakes and meadows and beneath the Sierra crest.
People might be surprised to find out just how much PP goes into making photograph not look like they have been excessively post-processed! That's especially true of the images that include both light and dark areas and near/far juxtapositions.
p.1 #4 · One more from Yosemite & a few from a pack trip.
Dan, the first is sublime, but I'm especially partial to Morning Shadows and Symmetry. They're all lovely though.
I've seen your posts on the topic elsewhere on the site, and it really is interesting to consider how much work goes into producing images that are authentically naturalistic, when they start as anything but. You do it well.
p.1 #5 · One more from Yosemite & a few from a pack trip.
JWRisinger wrote:
Dan, the first is sublime, but I'm especially partial to Morning Shadows and Symmetry. They're all lovely though.
I've seen your posts on the topic elsewhere on the site, and it really is interesting to consider how much work goes into producing images that are authentically naturalistic, when they start as anything but. You do it well.
Thanks!
The subject of the “Symmetry” photo is one that I’ve worked with in past years, usually on day hikes in and out of this location. This time, though, we backpacked in and stayed two nights before moving on, so I had more opportunities to photograph it, especially in the very early morning.
The challenge in a photograph like that one that is addressed by the post-processing is mainly the tremendous difference in brightness between the slopes in direct morning sun and the other areas still in deep shadow. Fortunately, modern cameras can capture details in a wide range of luminosities, giving us plenty of image data to work with in post.
p.1 #6 · One more from Yosemite & a few from a pack trip.
Sure! But I think the wide range of luminosity data is like a collection of symphony orchestra instruments (I know you're very familiar with the concept). Having the instruments (data) and musicians (PP software tools) is one thing; I just meant you do a great job "conducting the orchestra."
gdanmitchell wrote:
Thanks!
The subject of the “Symmetry” photo is one that I’ve worked with in past years, usually on day hikes in and out of this location. This time, though, we backpacked in and stayed two nights before moving on, so I had more opportunities to photograph it, especially in the very early morning.
The challenge in a photograph like that one that is addressed by the post-processing is mainly the tremendous difference in brightness between the slopes in direct morning sun and the other areas still in deep shadow. Fortunately, modern cameras can capture details in a wide range of luminosities, giving us plenty of image data to work with in post....Show more →
p.1 #7 · One more from Yosemite & a few from a pack trip.
gdanmitchell wrote:
Thanks! It is always great to get up among the lakes and meadows and beneath the Sierra crest.
People might be surprised to find out just how much PP goes into making photograph not look like they have been excessively post-processed! That's especially true of the images that include both light and dark areas and near/far juxtapositions.
Dan
You can say that again! These are lovely, as usual Dan.
p.1 #9 · One more from Yosemite & a few from a pack trip.
JWRisinger wrote:
Sure! But I think the wide range of luminosity data is like a collection of symphony orchestra instruments (I know you're very familiar with the concept). Having the instruments (data) and musicians (PP software tools) is one thing; I just meant you do a great job "conducting the orchestra."
Heh. Yes, I’m a sucker for musical analogies. Thanks. :-)
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Rand47 wrote:
You can say that again! These are lovely, as usual Dan.
p.1 #13 · One more from Yosemite & a few from a pack trip.
chriscoc wrote:
Beautiful photos of amazing scenery, I need to make a trip there
Thanks.
For conditions like these in the high country, best to go a bit early in the summer season. This was roughly mid-July, so there’s still a lot of green. Meadows in the high country can start to transition to the more “golden” quality sometime in August, depending on conditions.
Really liking your minimalist PP.