Press L, as this is so much better big on black!
The Sierra high country is timeless. These granite mountains, these meadows, and even this tree sentinel have been here longer than I've been alive and will be here much longer after I am gone. They stand day after day, month after month, year after year. Not waiting for anything, not expecting anything. No deadlines, no schedules, no Mondays, Wednesdays, or Saturdays.
If you spend enough time in the mountains, you begin to tap into that endless cycle. The feeling of "having to do something" slips away, along with pressures, schedules, and responsibilities. I don't know anything quite so pacifying and relieving as connecting with the stillness of the mountains.
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Tech notes on this photo
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Nikon D7000
Tokina 12-24 f/4 at 12mm
ISO100
f/9 - Sharpest spot on my lens, still adequate for full DOF with my
crop sensor
1 sec.
Shady White Balance
Lee soft 3-stop GND filter
Post-Processing
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In Raw Converter (Nikon Capture NX2)
- Processed single raw file twice, once for sky and once for the
foreground and tree
- Global contrast for added pop
- Local brightness/contrast adjustments to brighten tree, enrich the
sky, add contrast to granite
In Photoshop:
- Manual blend of two tiffs for master composite using an initial
gradient mask, refined using a luminosity mask to paint in tree detail
in the sky
- Selective sharpening of the granite, the tree, and the mountains
- Soft light burn / dodge layer, burned granite slightly
- Curves layer to add a little more saturation and oomph to sky
- Color balance layer to remove slight excess warm tint
All the best!
~Josh
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fewstingscorpio 13 months ago | reply
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d and d 2 12 months ago | reply
great shot
Susu_tD 11 months ago | reply
nice gallery you have - I like this shot a lot
Colskier1 5 months ago | reply
Beautiful light, really nice composition. Just a beautiful landscape scene.