This was captured in the waning days of summer about half way up Mount Rainier. It was a beautiful warm day with mostly blue skies when these great clouds came streaking in over the summit for just a short while.
I was there that day to scout potential locations to shoot for the WPL which was starting very soon. Unfortunately I never found time to make it back up to this spot for my team. So this handheld "test shot" is what I am going with given I didn't get to any other spots as spectacular as this during the year. Sure wish I had brought my monopod with me for this shoot, but it is what it is.
Really tough getting high quality under 300kb with all this texture. My processing is a bit heavy here based on a personal hunch that most voters will be expecting some "all out" processing for a "best of". I am the only one who has seen this image and how I processed it as I am about to face the wrath of the voters. I hope I don't find out I should have processed it more conservatively once voting begins :P
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I was under the effect of strong pain medication when I post processed this image, yeah that's it…pain medication ;)
I do appreciate all the comments I received which were really quite kind all things considered.
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Viewing on my laptop which isn't a perfect representation (so not voting), but you've got an amazing scene and photo, but to me it is a bit overcooked. I'd imagine you'd need some exposure blending/HDR work to not blow out the clouds and still get good color in the foreground flowers, but the colors seem just a bit too much.
gorgeous scene and composition but the image seems a bit overprocessed to me such that the light does not seem balanced between the sky (overly darkened), the mountain, and the slope on the right
It's a great image. Love the sky and flowers. The people are okay, but I might have left them out. They do lend scale to the scene, but the mountain and snow might have loomed larger w/o the yardstick. Just really great overall. Hope this ribbons for you. 10
Sorry but the post processing is definately not to my taste, it´s just way over the top, just makes the image way too busy and there is no single thing that draws the eye, just makes it bit of a chaos. Shame, I think I would have liked this image with a much more "conventional" post processing.
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