I haven't posted anything in a while, so I thought I'd post some photos I took this weekend while backcountry skiing in the Cascades near Snoqualmie Pass. We've been getting a lot of snow up here, and it let up a little over the weekend and gave us perfect weather for an overnight trip.
These three shots are from sometime after sunset on Saturday night. It was too dark for autofocus, and my eyes weren't helping much either, so I had to use the scale on the lens. Most of them came out pretty well focused. The only processing on these was a levels adjustment since they were pretty dark, and some noise reduction since they were 20-30 second exposures at ISO 200 and 400.
Wow fantastic images the colors are surreal very nice. Lets hope with all the rain in the forecast the next few days it doesn't create havoc up in Snoqualmie and Baker.
Thanks for all the comments. I appreciate the kind words.
I actually like the tracks in #3, and they're one of the reasons I composed the photo the way I did. But I admit, I'm kind of curious how it would have looked without them. I suppose it would be easy enough to photoshop them out, but I prefer to leave the scene the way it was. Maybe if I'm bored some day...
Jeffrey, I did do some correction on the converging trees on 2 and 3. They were a lot worse initially. But I stopped where I did because I was loosing too much of the bottom corners and didn't want to have to crop too much out. As it was I had to use the clone tool to recreate a little snow in the bottom corners. I felt it was a decent balance between fully correcting the converging trees and not loosing too much of the scene. I agree that #1 could use some correction. I'm not sure why I didn't do it, there's definitely room to do it without changing the feel of the scene.
The hot spot in #3 is the moon. I wasn't sure how to treat that in the photo, so I used a mask to hold it to the original exposure while using levels to bring the exposure up a bit on the rest of the scene. If you've got any recommendations on other ways to work on that, I'd love to hear them.
Wonderful light and tones.