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Looking back along the path up the corrie wall from Lake Cygnus - quite a climb! Taken from atop the Western Arthurs in Tasmania, Australia.
Looking back along the path up the corrie wall from Lake Cygnus - quite a climb! Taken from atop the Western Arthurs in Tasmania, Australia.
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Looking back along the path up the corrie wall from Lake Cygnus - quite a climb! Taken from atop the Western Arthurs in Tasmania, Australia

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How this shot came about.

It's difficult to convey the sheer joy of walking along the Western Arthurs Traverse particularly when the weather is as beautiful as it was.

I was at the start of, what would turn into, a great photographic day with a target rich environment and great lighting. Later on I took  Neptune's Sisters and Nature's Cathederal but at this stage I had just climbed up out of the corrie and was casting around looking for interesting perspectives from the top of the Lake Cygnus corrie walls. This scene caught my eye.

The wind was still gusting to 100kph (62mph) from the North but I wasn't complaining as it was creating and ever-changing texture in the sky. I love the juxtaposition of the fading perspective of the path I had just taken set to the left with the memory of the challenges of the Junction Creek path emanating from the valley floor off in the distance to the right.

As I stood taking the shot I recall a strong sense of purpose - I was being a photographer!

Shot Location

The Shot

Planning in The Western Arthurs is much more about understanding the likely cloud and rain that sweeps regularly over the mountains. In a wilderness circumstance such as this, where no internet services are available, my primary source of information becomes the satellite weather I can receive on my Garmin Montana 700i GPS.

This shot was one of several I took on this day once I realized I would have a 6-8 hour window of high cloud and little rain.

Planning here also involved cutting back my rucksack to the bare essentials for safety as well as photography in order to minimize its weight. It made for a very pleasant “carry”.

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Gear

Camera: Canon EOS R5

Lens: Canon RF 15-35mm f2.8L IS USM

Storage: ProGrade Cobalt CF Express B 325Gb

Ballhead: Really Right Stuff BH-40

Tripod: Really Right Stuff TFC-34L Mk2

Cable Release: Canon BR-E1 Bluetooth Remote

ND Filter: None

Exposures

Count: 14

HDR Count: 7 exposures per shot

Aperture: f11

ISO: 125

Focal Length: 22 mm

EV values: -3, -2, -1, 0, 1, 2, 3

Shutter: 1/1250, 1/640, 1/320, 1/160, 1/80, 1/40, 1/20

Filters

ND Filter: Not used

Gradient Filter: false

Polarizer: false

Image

Rows: 2

Shots: 0

HDR Shots: 2

Aspect: Portrait

Arrangement: 1x2

Post Production

Basic Workflow

  • I used Lightroom to stitch the 14 HDR exposures together into a 2 image mosaic.
  • I passed the image through Topaz DeNoiseAI 
    • removing CCD artifacts from the image
    • particularly in the clouds

Image Adjustment

  • Once I was satisfied with the results there was a very light pass through Topaz SharpenAI
  • Then a masked pass on the rocks in the background
  • A contrast adjustment to the clouds was done
  • The original format was very “overweight” in the foreground and the sky so I moved to a square format
  • Cropping was done to place the peaks in the top-right and bottom-left thirds

A graphic of the shot's layout structure

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