This is my first posting so go easy (just kidding). After many days of rain, and snow (on July 3), I was able to view Mount Robson, B.C. clearly, and received an added bonus of wildflowers. Canon Elan IIe, 24mm, f16, Velvia, polarizer.

-- Mark Freyman (urpucked@mediaone.net), August 08, 1999

Answers

I like the flowers, but what happened to the detail in the forest?

-- Larry Korhnak (lvk@gnv.ifas.ufl.edu), August 08, 1999.

Great shot! I would like to know how that you used the circ. polarizer on the 24mm without geting vignetting in the corners and also got the consistent blue from right to left in the sky. I have that lens and would find it impossible to that. Bill

-- Bill Wilson (wilson.w@worldnet.att.net), August 08, 1999.

Mark, nice perspective and composition, but overall seems a bit dark. Perhaps decreasing the intensity of the polarizer would have helped. The flowers in the foreground are a great touch, Regards, Donna

-- Donna P. Bollenbach (cassidy@icubed.net), August 09, 1999.

The flowers in the foreground and the snow-covered mountain in the background are nice, but the forest in the middle is too dark. Your need the sun to come from behind your camera to illuminate the entire scene.

-- Shun Cheung (shun@worldnet.att.net), August 11, 1999.

Nice job Mark. I like the composition, especially the few flowers sticking up above the background trees. Looks like the exposure or your scan is too dim though and I would like to see the entire flower in the lower left. This flower is a bit dominate to crop off like that. You may not have even noticed this flower though if your camera does not have a 100% viewfinder.

I know right where you took this from. I visted Robson Provincial Park a couple years ago. Fantastic. Did you have the opportunity to hike all the way into Berg Lake or to the Berg Glacier?

-- Brad Mitchell (bradjm@gte.net), August 11, 1999.

Thanks for the comments, they'll definitely help me think more critically on future outings! To answer a few questions: 1) the polarizer I use is a Cokin circular polarizer in a Cokin P filter holder and I have not had any problems with vingnetting, but on some of my other shots the sky has not been a consistent blue throughout, and 2) as for hiking the Berg Trail, no, unfortunately I didn't have the time to do it this year.

I have a couple of questions regarding scanned images: 1) any tips for getting better scans out of an HP Photosmart slide scanner? 2) what are your suggestions for saving the files as .JPGs for this forum -- what DPI (72,150,300), quality (1-10), etc., and 3) how close to the actual slide should I expect the scan to look?

-- Mark Freyman (urpucked@mediaone.net), August 12, 1999.

Nice. I would have moved in a little closer to the flowers to make the foreground stronger and give the image more impact.

-- sanjoy (sanjoy@eng.auburn.edu), August 17, 1999.

Hm. My guess is that there is more forest detail in your original slide than in this scan. If there was not a breeze problem I might have maxxed out my f-stops (f22 on this lens ?) and moved closer, and lower, to hyperfocal distance to the flowers; given that the forest is the least interesting part of this image, you might have been able to shrink the forest to a thin strip between the daisies and Robson. As another commenter mentioned, the daisies breaking into the forest zone is a nice touch, so why not have more of it?

This is all very well, in hindsight, of course. A nice image.

-- Kevin Geraghty (kgeraght@spiretech.com), August 30, 1999.