Above Heather Lake

[Jim D]

Heather Lake, below Mt. Pilchuck in Washington's central Cascades, is one of the easiest access little hikes near my house.


M2P RAW shots stitched in ACR converted to B&W with Silver FX Pro

 

[BD0G]

Very Ansel Adams'ish! Such great framing and definition!

I kinda wish I could claim that I took that shot.

 

[eutx9795]

Awesome shot but why in B&W?

 

[Jim D]

eutx, Like BDOG says, I'm always trying to emulate Ansel. I love B&W for its simplicity - it feels like a distillation down to the essence.

 

[MKurr]

Heather Lake, below Mt. Pilchuck in Washington's central Cascades, is one of the easiest access little hikes near my house.

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M2P RAW shots stitched in ACR converted to B&W with Silver FX Pro

Great photo!

 

[Jackcutrone]

I have always been an AA fan. This truly is reminiscent of his work. Did you use a polarizing filter to darken the sky when shooting or did you do that in post or did it just turn out that way?

 

[ShermanFlyer]

Awesome shot

 

[deleted member 877]

Heather Lake, below Mt. Pilchuck in Washington's central Cascades, is one of the easiest access little hikes near my house.

M2P RAW shots stitched in ACR converted to B&W with Silver FX Pro

I am also a big fan of B&W. I remember back in the late seventies paying a lot for a specialist photo lab to develop my B&W film. Those were fun times

 

[W2EJ]

That is one beautiful picture!

 

[Jim D]

Thanks for all the comments guys. I too used to try shooting some B&W film BITD, with very limited success - I could never get the use of filters down since it looks so weird in the viewfinder of an SLR. I now love shooting color then converting in post, which gives me so much more control than with film and all virtually instant rather than the time consuming darkroom process. I did apply a red filter in Silver FX to darken the sky, along with quite a bit of other local adjustments to the color image in ACR.

 

[ff22]

Now one of Lake 22 and another angle on Mt Pilchuck. I think I'm too old to lug my Zoom in. Did you also take video?

 

[Jim D]

f22, yes I did try shooting some video up along the ridge on the left skyline in this picture, but it isn't anything special. I'm still much more of a still photog.

 

[TheWolfen]

I agree with everyone else... Terrific shot! Definitely evokes Ansel Adams. I love B&W photography and have been thinking about trying some with my Mavic. You've inspired me to make it happen!! Thanks for sharing your work!