I took this about 6 weeks ago. Canon T90, 80mm lens, f16 @ 1/30 (I think). No filters. Standard 8x10 cropping.

I was about 7000' up. The peak tops out at about 11000'.

Keith

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http://www.spiritone.com/~kclark/snapshots/Keith_at_Glacier.JPG

-- Keith Clark (ClarkPhotography@spiritone.com), August 20, 1998

Answers

Keith,

My first impression was, "Yes, kinda majestic but there's some dead space there". So I did a recropping of it to pull it in. Try cropping about 45 pixels off the left side and cutoff the bottom just above your copyright. This "tighter" format is better. The rock ledge sticking out of the snow on the left becomes a more prominent diagonal. The slighly clipped rocks on the bottom like those on the right side, help to frame it better. Things that would have improved it might have been a UV filter (might help to make the rocks at the top of the mountain less blue) and perhaps even a polarizing filter to darken the blue sky. Still a lovely shot.

-- Paul Lenson (lenson@pci.on.ca), August 20, 1998.

Paul stole the important comments;)

There really is a significant blue cast in the slopes around the peak. The whites and darker shades at the bottom are much cleaner. Looks like it might need an 81b, or stronger, warming filter. Due to the thin atmosphere at higher elevations, stronger warming filters are necessary to offset the stronger UV. 81a is usually good up to about 5000'.

Seems like you may have been shooting faster than 1/30 @ f/16 unless you were using Real slow film. I'm not sure Sunny 16 could handle the brightness of the sun at 10000' reflected off the snow and ice.

Impressive image.

-- Joe Boyd (boydjw@traveller.com), August 20, 1998.

Based on the shawdows you are shooting mostly into the sun. The colors would look more brillient, less washed out at a different time of the day. Additionally, you weren't blessed with dramitic clouds, and the ones that you do have merge with the mountain. A polorizer might have helped but would have more of an effect if the sun was more to the side.

-- brad mills (dbradmills@aol.com), August 20, 1998.