I am testing to see if there is some data loss, particularly soft pastels, when NPN’s algorithms enter and resize an image into their database. It seems that the initial submission (top) lost it’s color fidelity—color profile dropped out.
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Is it too tight on the right? The foreground is a hill. backing up was not an option.
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Image Description
Reflected on the surface of a tarn in the tundra, the Blackstone Range is a part of the Ogilvie Mountains in Yukon, encountered while traveling the Dempster Highway to Inuvik, NWT.
Technical Details
Canon EOS 5D II; Canon EF 28-70mm @ 28mm; f/18 @ 1/30 sec, ISO 100, Gitzo tripod; RRS BH 55, remote trigger; 3-image pano stack via Photoshop
Hi Bob, I like how you captured the mountain reflections perfectly in the lagoon without overlapping with the terrain. It’s a beautiful place and your photograph shows it! Regarding your question, I don’t think it’s too tight on the right side of the image, but having more margin on the left side and being more illuminated my eye tends to go for that spot. Anyway I liked your picture and I would love to see more of that place!
Bob, your panoramic shot is breathtaking. The landscape and sky blend beautifully, giving a vast, tranquil feel. The warm tones add to its serenity. On the composition, the tight right side doesn’t spoil it, but a bit more space might have given it a fuller look. I always carry a 16mm prime for the tighter shots, I know this situation exactly, its really frustrating! To even things out, maybe crop a bit from the left for symmetry. You’ve really captured the landscape’s majesty well.
Thank you @Nico.Rebolo and @Saundie for your comments. I went back and looked at the raw files—there were only the three, so I have no options to adding to the right side. The bright left side was heavily fog or cloud bound. What you see was the best I could do to recover texture and color. I have a 16-35mm lens but that made the scene small. Self-defeating.
Nice image. Beautiful scene. I don’t think it’s too tight on the right. I would probably crop a little from the left. I might add, the magenta in the water reflection looks a little odd. JMHO.
Thank you @Michael_Lowe for your comments. I revisited my original, individual images. If you look closely at the clouds near the mountain tops on the right side of the image you will see some pink on the underside of the clouds. The light/sun is low yielding some red. Reflections are always darker than the reflected object. Look at the reflection of the mountains. Very little of their surface highlights are reflected on the tarn surface.
This is a wonderful broad view of a pond I think I’m familiar with. Isn’t there a flat area just right behind you where you could park overnight? I was intrigued by this very same pond but decided to move in closer and concentrate on those reeds at the bottom of your image.
It’s always interesting to see how people see the same subject in different ways. But it’s also interesting how we chose the same subject from the limitless amount that Alaska and Yukon has to offer. When I shot my image I thought noone else would bother to photograph this small inconspicuous body of water.
When I first saw your image I thought it needed a bit more space below the lake, that it was crowded. That would seem obvious. But when you look at it some more you become aware that this picture is about the clouds just as much as the lake and they draw your eye away from the bottom.
Thank you @Igor_Doncov for your comments. There are a number of tarns along the Dempster highway just past the Tombstone Territorial Park. I was camped in the Park for a few days. I know the tarn you are talking about. I believe it is called Two Moose Lake. I visited it one day. A couple were camped there in the flat area you mentioned. While there a moose meandered into the water and began to feed. I did not have my camera. The image I made is of a larger tarn, no wide spot to park and a hilly descent to the shore. Both areas have the Blackstone Range behind them.
Bob, this is a beautiful panorama. I am not bothered by the cropping on the right, but I wonder about the left. Croping on the left would balance the composition. I see I am not the only one that finds the magenta in the reflection puzzling since it does not seem to be related to the sky it is reflection.
I witnessed a moose as well very close there. This was taken by an iphone. I watched him for maybe 20 minutes. She would submerge so that only his back showed and held her breath for what seemed like 3 minutes. Moreover she grazed off the bottom, chewed the plants, and swallowed them all while holding her breath. It was quite a show.
@Igor_Doncov those coordinates are not compatible with my software. Different Camera systems record the coordinates differently. They an be translated easily if the camera is known.
When you cross the Thompson Pass the highway starts to descend. It’s the first lake on your left after the highway crosses the Blackstone River for the first time after the descent. I actually caught a grayling at that junction, but it was a dink.
Thanks @ Igor Doncov
I knew about the degree symbol, but the minutes/seconds symbols were the glitch. The lake you are referring to is in front of Blackstone Range, the same mountain range and lake I depicted in the Blackstone Range photo I posted earlier. It is one range north of the range containing Mount Boyle.
If you were photographing the peaks on the opposite side of the road (see below), no. Most likely it is the range that includes Angelcomb Peak, directly opposite Blackstone Range, and Trapper Mountain, directly opposite Mount Doyle. I am including an image of that range. Nearest peak Is Angelcomb, the snow-covered peak is Trapper
If you were simply photographing Mount Boyle from the opposite side of the road, then, most certainly, yes. That is what appears to be the case, based on the shape and surface features of the nearest part of the mountain. Nice shot
Great picture. Thanks. The ‘pond’ I photographed is in the lower left corner and the mountain directly above it. I remember crossing the river in my waders at that bend in the river and working downstream for a couple of tiny grayling. It was greener back then in mid August.
