Trout Lake: The site of Glacier National Park's 1st bear fatality, and where we had to spend the night due to the impending darkness. Slept on top of my hatchet that night...
I would say that this has taken the status of being my favorite photo ever taken. I hiked 12 miles get to this spot, and only saw 1 other human in my 3 night stay in these mountains. The trails were thin, almost imperceptible at times, and the terrain was pretty much as devoid of human taint as you can get. Just pure, unadulterated wilderness. Sublime.
The shot itself I spent a long while composing, wanted to get the leading lines and reflections in balance. The haze is from the forest fires that were burning in neighboring Idaho, and made the scene rather drab. This is why I chose a sepia tone, to emphasize the composition and form of this magical location.
PP = grayscale > duotone > D & B'ing on the wood to make it stick out more > RGB > and lots of contrast work in curves and levels. USM, save4web.
Had this in my portfolio for a while, added a bit of contrast which seems to have made it too dark.
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hey adam .. i can see why this would be your favourite photograph ... not only how excellent it is .. so beautiful .. but the experience of being in such a place would only add to the appeal .. sublime for sure .. love your processing style .. intense, dramatic and powerful .. totally right for this majestic scene .. :).... WOW..!!..:)
sounds so remote the places you go .. along with camera, memory cards & battery, a compass would be part of your necessary equipment .. !!!.. oh .. and food .. !!!:)
Ok i do not want to read all your comments, but i am curious and i just noticed my self, did anyone comment on the slight tilt to the horizon? In any case, I love this shot, and i am really shocked it didn't do better.
Mysterious, murky, skeletal landscape. On first pass the shadows seemed too blocked up to me, but on re-examination they're probably about right for what I take it you're after here. I like the very precise handling of the bright sky and the fading BG mountains. I can see why you picked this one as representative (assuming it IS representative, since I have no clue who you are).
Nice sepia tones. Nice texture in the wood. I think the length of the left log hurts the shot by extending too much into the negative space of the river. Mountains in the background are very nice.
i can see this on the cover of Outdoor Photographer. beautiful sepia, excellent detail, tone of everything is great, vignette is perfect. this is one of the only tens ive given
I like the subtle use of leading lines on this. Also the sepia tones are nice. It seems just a touch dark though. I imagine this would look wonderful blown up into a huge print or canvas
I like the subtlety of the tones here, as well as the strong perspective. Is that river frozen over? I see a pattern that looks like ice. (No vote, comment only, because I ran across this on your Flickr page last week)
Why is it that my landscapes featuring drift wood turn out like crap and yours look like this? It just doesn't seem fair.
I really like the layering of this. The driftwood in the foreground is nice, but what makes this great is that you allowed the highlight on the water, in the middle of the frame, draw the eyes back and then the highlights in the mountains carry on from there. Wonderful shot.
wonderful shot, great conversion, composition is perfect, maybe a bit too dark on the far sides of the shot, but in a sense it adds to the mood of the shot. very very nice.
I feel that the bright trees are the main subject and always detract me from the majestic view. wonder if this would be different better withou the toning
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