mbrager
02-26-2010, 12:52 AM
Olympics inspired me to drive out to Canmore today, site of the 1988 Olympic Nordic events. The site is now a provincial park and the cross country tracks are neatly groomed. It was a beautiful cloudy day, few skiers around and the snow is melting. Hence the ice formation where the skier was herringboning is visible as a reflection, as is the ski track.
I think the mountain might be called Mt. Lady Macdonald, named after the wife of the first prime minister of Canada who traveled through the Rockies by train in 1886.
I decided to bracket my exposures and usually found the smallest aperture or fastest shots were the best. Not much to the processing, a levels adjustment on the darker areas, and I tried a cooling filter effect to bring out the sky and clouds, which I preferred.
The weather can change very quickly in the mountains and when I left to go to another location a storm blew up and it started to snow lightly. Temperature seemed to drop 10° in a few minutes. Light flattened out too.
Mike
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4044/4388429735_17bbe64cfe_b.jpg
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4023/4389196260_20f529079e_b.jpg
I think the mountain might be called Mt. Lady Macdonald, named after the wife of the first prime minister of Canada who traveled through the Rockies by train in 1886.
I decided to bracket my exposures and usually found the smallest aperture or fastest shots were the best. Not much to the processing, a levels adjustment on the darker areas, and I tried a cooling filter effect to bring out the sky and clouds, which I preferred.
The weather can change very quickly in the mountains and when I left to go to another location a storm blew up and it started to snow lightly. Temperature seemed to drop 10° in a few minutes. Light flattened out too.
Mike
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4044/4388429735_17bbe64cfe_b.jpg
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4023/4389196260_20f529079e_b.jpg