Lars
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Whenever I'm at high altitude I am running into serious trouble WRT composition and framing. While everything looks good up there, evaluating my captures afterwards has more than once been a disappointment.
Most recently at Patriach Grove in the White mountains (about 3,600 m), I shot some Bristlecone Pines on 8x10 slide film. Needless to say, with that format every exposure has to count. I exposed six sheets, I think only one was interesting.
Further back... in northern Chile a few years ago I once went to the caldera of Sairecabur at 5,530 m, but at least I was acclimatized then. Still, the images were flat and uninteresting.
Anybody else have the same experience?
Lars
Below: The subjectively good one... Cooke XVa wide open at 24" (front element) on old stock Velvia RVP.
Most recently at Patriach Grove in the White mountains (about 3,600 m), I shot some Bristlecone Pines on 8x10 slide film. Needless to say, with that format every exposure has to count. I exposed six sheets, I think only one was interesting.
Further back... in northern Chile a few years ago I once went to the caldera of Sairecabur at 5,530 m, but at least I was acclimatized then. Still, the images were flat and uninteresting.
Anybody else have the same experience?
Lars
Below: The subjectively good one... Cooke XVa wide open at 24" (front element) on old stock Velvia RVP.
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