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ilovepugs
Angel Diva
Only 2 more days out here. :( tomorrow and Friday will be sunny bluebird days in the 60s.
Here’s one more of A Basin looking towards the East Wall (super hard hike only terrain that I did not try to do because... super hard... and hiking at altitude):
ilovepugs
Angel Diva
I love skiing/riding in shoulder season! No crowds and mild weather, what more can you ask for?!
snowski/swimmouse
Angel Diva
Beautiful @ilovepugs ! Thanks for sharing and safe travels home.
ilovepugs
Angel Diva
Thanks! I still have the evening here and my boss told me to play hooky so I’m going to take a hike before I leave too
Eera
Ski Diva Extraordinaire
It's got mountains and snow. No chairlifts though.
As there's a few people here who love their cameras I thought I'd add some technical stuff about how I processed this image. I'll apologise for weird artifacts in the sky; the site kept making the colours screwy so I had to save to another site and then re-save that image and it's added a lot of noise.
Anyway, this is a 20-image panorama taken at 100mm. I like zooms for landscapes as the effectively compress the image into a plane and you don't get the weird distortions that wide-angles give you. The downside is that you don't get a point-and-shoot image. Below is a screenshot of some of the raw images showing the amount of overlap I do, generally it's 50% or more.
Then the images are merged in Lightroom. You can see the bits where there was no data so I had to do a bit of work in Photoshop; some cloning here and there, PS has an excellent content-aware fill that can fill in the gaps to some extent. At this point the image was HUGE - up around 700MB, but as long as my computer can cope I prefer working with the larger images.
The image was effectively in .raw format at this point - raw is the equivalent of film negatives. If you shoot in jpeg the files are smaller, but your camera / phone is making the decisions about colour balance, contrast etc for you; Raw gives massive file sizes but it's pure data and the amount of detail you can extract is silly. So I made a minor amount of adjustments. I wanted the skies to contast to the sunlight; blue and yellow are nearly opposite on the colour wheel so I selectively put a blue colour in using a curves layer in PS. I upped the contrast a little bit to make the skies a bit more stormy and masked out the foreground mountains. Then I desaturated the yellow a bit a it was really bright. Saved as a tiff to retain the layers for the future, then flattened the image and converted to jpeg.
And that's it.
As there's a few people here who love their cameras I thought I'd add some technical stuff about how I processed this image. I'll apologise for weird artifacts in the sky; the site kept making the colours screwy so I had to save to another site and then re-save that image and it's added a lot of noise.
Anyway, this is a 20-image panorama taken at 100mm. I like zooms for landscapes as the effectively compress the image into a plane and you don't get the weird distortions that wide-angles give you. The downside is that you don't get a point-and-shoot image. Below is a screenshot of some of the raw images showing the amount of overlap I do, generally it's 50% or more.
Then the images are merged in Lightroom. You can see the bits where there was no data so I had to do a bit of work in Photoshop; some cloning here and there, PS has an excellent content-aware fill that can fill in the gaps to some extent. At this point the image was HUGE - up around 700MB, but as long as my computer can cope I prefer working with the larger images.
The image was effectively in .raw format at this point - raw is the equivalent of film negatives. If you shoot in jpeg the files are smaller, but your camera / phone is making the decisions about colour balance, contrast etc for you; Raw gives massive file sizes but it's pure data and the amount of detail you can extract is silly. So I made a minor amount of adjustments. I wanted the skies to contast to the sunlight; blue and yellow are nearly opposite on the colour wheel so I selectively put a blue colour in using a curves layer in PS. I upped the contrast a little bit to make the skies a bit more stormy and masked out the foreground mountains. Then I desaturated the yellow a bit a it was really bright. Saved as a tiff to retain the layers for the future, then flattened the image and converted to jpeg.
And that's it.
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liquidfeet
Ski Diva Extraordinaire
ilovepugs
Angel Diva
Here’s the view from the top of the Timberline quad at Bolton Valley. Was the most beautiful day in Vermont yesterday. It’s actually a really short hike to the top from the main base area. A little over half a mile and about 350 feet in elevation gain. I can get a similar workout just walking up my road, but the views aren’t *quite* as nice (I do see Camel’s Hump though) and there isn’t a creemee stand at the bottom of my hill!
snowski/swimmouse
Angel Diva
Gorgeous photo.
Once again, I've been hunting a working link for more than an hour for this last Zoom Happy Hour night. : (
Once again, I've been hunting a working link for more than an hour for this last Zoom Happy Hour night. : (
