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11-JUL-2008 RK

1st - Lake Louise
by RK

Canadian Rockies

Canon EOS 5D ,Canon EF 14 mm F2.8 L II USM
1/160s f/11.0 at 14.0mm iso100 hide exif
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Date/Time11-Jul-2008 22:21:03
MakeCanon
ModelCanon EOS 5D
Flash UsedNo
Focal Length14 mm
Exposure Time1/160 sec
Aperturef/11
ISO Equivalent100
Exposure Bias
White Balance
Metering Modepartial (6)
JPEG Quality
Exposure Programprogram (1)
Focus Distance

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Guest 21-Jul-2008 15:54
Thanks for posting the color version as well. Excellent picture in color or b/w. I still don't think that the zone system shows up in color photography but it's on full display in your B/W. -COAmature
ctfchallenge20-Jul-2008 21:34
Excellent RK. This is a stunner!!. You have done a very nice conversion. It looks wonderful in color as well as in BW!
-Cat
ctfchallenge20-Jul-2008 15:00
Truly stunning! jano
Photogenix20-Jul-2008 04:17
Thanks Brent, Rod and Mary Anne.
Rod, Mary Anne... about the border... kind of like it.
Rod, anytime I try selective burning/dodging... turns out be a disaster. Following is the color verson:



Know it has a frame, bear with me... will replace it with a frameless one.

- RK
ctfchallenge20-Jul-2008 01:41
Beautiful shot, RK. Zones 1 and 10 look fine on my monitor, but I have to agree with Rod that the wide border is distracting. While you would want the nice white mat when framing the actual print of the photo, I don't think it's needed for viewing here.
--Mary Anne
Rod 19-Jul-2008 19:08
Once I had won the fight to get past that silly wedding frame I did find an excellent picy with great details from front to back. To make it Ansel looking I think you would need to burn in the blacks & dodge the whites, with selective dodging & burning to bring out the tonal range. The tones in this picy are more grouped around either side of 18% reflectance & don't seem to go out to the zone 1 & zone 10 regions. You may well have more tones in this picy than most of the other picys posted here but without rich blacks & good bright whites ala Ansel it just needs that bit more. This is a great picy & my comments are solely with the zone challenge in mind, except for the edifice you placed around the picy to diminish the grandeur of the scene.
ctfchallenge19-Jul-2008 17:10
Wondeful layered composition Adams would be proud of RK! Very well done.
~Brent