InfoMount McKinley (Denali) on a relatively cloudless day. Taken from inside the Denali National Park.
Support It's an iconic image of one of the most impressive mountains in the world. This image has been published in a local weekly Anchorage newspaper. -- Ram-Man13:06, 15 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support Good picture, but why didn't you wait until the car arrives to the bottom of the picture, it would have given a 'human soul'--Alipho18:22, 15 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Because almost no cars are allowed that far into the park, only the green buses that come by at semi-random intervals and not all of them pass that point. Plus, I was on the bus and only had a few minutes before we had to depart. You can see a small part of a bus in this panorama at the far left. -- Ram-Man18:26, 15 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Yup, it's called "Stony Dome", and it's one of the bus stops. It's stereotypical for sure, but cloudless days are relatively rare, so that's what makes this special. Oh and upon closer inspection there is one of those rare cars in this picture. Looks so tiny against a mountain that is miles away. -- Ram-Man12:04, 16 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
It was taken with a 3MP point-and-shoot. Sorry, no RAW. Of course, since this is snow, it is almost as bright as you're going to get in nature. You can see in this partially underexposed closeup that there is only a very slight amount of additional detail in those highlights, probably only visible because it's an 8MP closeup. The human eye wouldn't have been able to see that kind of detail from that distance anyway. -- Ram-Man13:38, 16 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Compare the underexposed image with the 1:1 crop from this image. The underexposed image of course looks better because it shows more spatial resolution: it was downsampled from an 8MP camera preserving more detail, whereas the original is just a crop. But most of the tonality in underexposed image is still in the 1:1 crop. You can see all of the major variances in light and dark in both images. You have to look extremely close to see the differenes in tonality that would only be visible at these very large viewing sizes. Had this image been exposed less to pull out that very subtle detail, the entire foreground (which is important) would be mess of noise. It's supposed to look bright: it's snow. -- Ram-Man16:27, 16 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
It appears the camera coldn't handle the contrast in the scene. Exposure bracketing could have helped, or reprocessing from raw to save the highlights (helps with my camera). And for the snow I'd prefer a compromise between the two exposures. I said it was a tad overexposed. Anyways I know the chant about blown out snow, believe me, I just feel this pic could have been better. I have a few pics with snow issues here and have been reluctant to nominate them for this reason. --Dschwen09:05, 24 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Upon a cursory look, the bright snow doesn't overly bother me in any of those pictures. They may or may not be FPs for other reasons (I couldn't say), but speaking for myself, if anything can be overexposed it is snow which has very little detail to begin with. -- Ram-Man11:42, 24 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose the composition is quite nice. The subject is great. But the color quality is very bad! The extrem color noise and the dust. The mountain is too hazy. The last can be fixed but the noise - what a bummer!. Metoc22:43, 18 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Noise and dust? Do you mean the foreground? That's not noise, that's the natural color. While there may be a small amount of noise visible at extreme magnifications, this picture was taken in the "late fall" (effective seasons, not calendar... some of the first snows were while we were there in august). I have some closeups of the flora from the 8MP camera, and if you really want me to upload them, I can, but even magnified it looks much the same. The low blueberry bushes and willows are all mixed colors of red, green, and yellow. Perhaps you can't appreciate how much area this picture is covering, but it's impossible for any camera to resolve color that changes by the centimeter or less on a scale this large. As for the mountain, this was as clear a day as possible. The mountain is many miles/kilometers away and is remarkably clear. I'd ask that you reconsider your vote! -- Ram-Man23:18, 18 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Info created by Julie Ramsey. Uploaded and nominated by Derek Ramsey. 13:06, 15 May 2007 (UTC)
Support It's an iconic image of one of the most impressive mountains in the world. This image has been published in a local weekly Anchorage newspaper. -- Ram-Man 13:06, 15 May 2007 (UTC)
Comment On this picture by Lucag you can also see the Bus. Seems to be a common photo-spot ;-) --Simonizer 12:00, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
Neutral
Oppose seems a tad overexposed to me. Was it shot as raw or jpg? --Dschwen 13:16, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
