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A few moments after the previous photograph. Is this a color photograph or a black and white photograph? Answer: The black and white rendering of the land is natural. As the sun set below the horizon, no direct sunlight fell on the land and it rendered black and white. https://www.pixgaga.com.
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A few winters ago, I went to the Sequoia National Park for a few days. My favorite location in the park to easily see and photograph great landsapes, is the Moro Rock. One can easily climb it and get great views from the top. Here is one such image, close to sunset.
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Today and tomorrow, I shall present a couple of photos from Pt. Reyes National Seashore in California. I was at the top of a mountain viewing this scene. It was an extremely windy day and despite my sturdy tripod, my Nikon D4S with Nikkor 70-200mm f2.8 lens vibrated a lot. I could see the view vibrating as I looked at it through my eyepiece. I set my exposure at f/8 at 1/1000 s, to get it sharp. This required an ISO of 640, which is highly unusual for a landscape made by me. https://www.pixgaga.com.
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Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes, Alaska, USA. Here the bottom left has the pink flower laden hill as foreground. Additionally, this has the same type of cloud-ridge interrupts. Finally, this has three layers of shaded clouds in the top right part of the image. Nikon D4S with 200-500mm f5.6 lens with 1.4x teleconverter. Shot at 700mm.
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Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes, Alaska, USA. Loved this composition because of the pink flower laden foreground hills, followed by four distinct interrupts by the clouds on the ridges. The first such interrupt is in the top left corner of the image. The same pattern repeats as you go to the right for a total of four times. I saw this happen and to isolate it, not only did I have to add my 1.4x teleconverter to the 200-500mm f5.6 lens setup at 500mm, but I also added a 1.5x crop in-camera. Effectively, this is another 1050mm shot.
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Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes, Alaska, USA. This is another 700mm landscape. Loved this composition because of the three distinct layers of hills shown here, accentuated by the way the clouds interrupt the ridges.
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Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes, Alaska, USA. Continuing on with highly unusual landscape here. I shot this with the same 700mm lens setup. Loved this scene because of the rolling wavy lines on the main subject hill, arrested by the strong sharp diagonal right to left ridge. Additionally the cloud cover is layered, covered a little bit of the main subject hill, but covering a lot more of the background hills. This scene is so isolated that to reach it with my lens, I had to apply a further 1.5x crop in-camera, to finally nail this framing. Effectively, this is a 1050mm shot.
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Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes, Alaska, USA. This image was made continuing on with my 700mm setup from Alaska#35. I loved this scene because of the shadowed hill in the foreground, followed by strong diagonal lines in the mid ground hill, followed by hazy distant hill. With clouds filling 1/3 of the frame.
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Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes, Alaska, USA. The sheer uniqueness of this landscape encouraged me to shoot this image. The horizontal pattern at the bottom, followed by diagonal pattern above it and finally, the uniquely different hills anchoring the background. The low clouds added drama. To isolate this scene, my Nikkor 200-500mm f5.6 lens was insufficient. I needed to add my 1.4x teleconverter, to effectively shoot this at 700mm.
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