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Dusy Basin, Morning Reflection. Sierra Nevada Range, California. August 14, 2005. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell.

This is a color version on yesterday’s photo. I don’t think this is the final version - I have some ideas for the foreground to try yet.

No one who has tried to photograph a scene like this will be surprised to hear that this image is a composite of two RAW conversions of the same image - the dynamic range between the distant, sunlit peaks and the foreground was trememdous. In this case, I did one conversion with settings for the peaks and their snowfields. The second conversion was set for the foreground area. The two conversions were combined using various masks, etc and then touched up. (This is the sort of image for which a traditional film photographer might employ a graduated neutral density filter.)
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G Dan Mitchell :: Jun.30.2006 :: Photographs: Sierra Nevada :: Comments Off

Dusy Basin, Morning Reflection (Black and White). Sierra Nevada Range, California. August 14, 2005. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell.

(A color version of this image is coming tomorrow…)
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Reflections, Dusy Basin. Sierra Nevada Range, California. August 13, 2005. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell.

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G Dan Mitchell :: Jun.28.2006 :: Photographs: Sierra Nevada :: Comments Off

First, know that I write this with my sense of humor intact. It isn’t an angry rant… :-)

A couple of observations and experiences from the last couple days have reminded me how to and how not to respond to certain types of “criticism.”

Exhibit 1: The first two ratings of a photo I recently posted at photo.net:

photo.net at photo.net“>

Personally, I sort of like one of them better than the other, but I suppose that both may be equally suspect. (For those who don’t know, at photo.net member ratings of 7 mean “excellent” and ratings of 3 mean “below average.” (According to some reports, photo.net converts all ratings of 1 (”very bad”) and 2 (”bad”) into 3’s, so the truth may be even worse… ;-)

Exhibit 2: The Online Photographer included a wonderful story (”Great Photographers on the Internet” - find it here - you’ll need to scroll down) in which photographic classics are subjected to tongue in cheek “reviews” in the style of the public forums. (For a nice follow-up, see “Photography Rules” at the same web site.)

Exhibit 3: As if on cue, various web sources pointed to this amazing thread on Flickr: Cartier-Bresson Booted From Flickr and Mario’s Bike of Flickr.
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G Dan Mitchell :: Jun.27.2006 :: Commentary :: Comments Off

Sunset, Mt. Winchell and the Palisades. Sierra Nevada Range, California. August 12, 2005. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell.

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G Dan Mitchell :: Jun.27.2006 :: Photographs: Sierra Nevada :: Comments Off

A crazy thread at Flickr - you’ll have to read it to understand!
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G Dan Mitchell :: Jun.26.2006 :: Commentary :: Comments Off

Dusy Basin, Dawn. Sierra Nevada Range, California. August 14, 2005. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell.

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Sunset, Dusy Basin. Sierra Nevada Range, California. August 13, 2005. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell.

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G Dan Mitchell :: Jun.25.2006 :: Photographs: Sierra Nevada :: Comments Off

Ultra Concentrated Joy! June 19, 2006. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell.

Moving from the possibly sublime to the certainly ridiculous, this is a photograph of a detergent bottle with a rather ironic label.
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G Dan Mitchell :: Jun.23.2006 :: Commentary :: Comments Off

Sunset, Sierra Crest. Glacier Point, Yosemite National Park. June 11, 2006. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell.

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