Another view of a northwest archetype...

Rainier and Enumclaw farm



If the contest subject had been "red," I might have decided to be counterintuitive and submit this photo.

Although it might also work with no color at all...

The barn-shed echoes the mountain-foothills very nicely. And the trees also. A very effective photo.

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Looove that photo. The BW works but I prefer the color version. I truly like everything about it. Buutifuull
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great composition, colors... everything works!

I shot in RAW for the first time today based on your comparisons in an earlier thread. I curse you... cause now I have to buy another flash card or two. :hi: I'm completely sold. Almost no white balance or color adjustments are needed.

The following is completely RAW in RAW. No tweaking of any kind. I could have fixed the underexposed birdie belly but I wanted to just show how going RAW is soooo liberating. I'd recommend that everyone give it a try no matter what kind of camera you are using. My Paint Shop Pro 9 had no problem loading it and giving me the option to adjust (which I didn't) the image pre-processing.



I'm done for the night. Until tommorrow.... think "reflections"... no, think "Hot Days of Summer"... no "reflections"

However, the irony here is that the photo at the head of this thread is not RAW. Why not? Because it was a "drive-by shooting" taken at a time when I didn't have my Nikon with me. I used paisley's camera, which doesn't do RAW.

Much preferable in color, though it certainly works in B&W.

I've been to Seattle a coupel times, but it's been so cloudy every time I've never seen Mt. Ranier. I'll try and rein in my skepticism by suggesting you photoshopped it in! :silly:

I'm really jealous. I got some pretty nice shots over the past five days that we were out, but we've had the usual fires up here this summer and a lot of haze. It's cool in its own way, but I really love these crisp colors.

I'm heading to Seattle on 8/22, and then on to Vancouver. Looking forward to loading up my 1 gig flashcard!

...or, better yet, a laptop to download your photos, because I'm pretty sure you'll use up that 1 GB fairly quickly.

I say keep the color. Definately.

Rainier in Clouds



I found this one interesting because, when I finally got to see it at full resolution on the computer, my first thought was that it almost looked more like a painting than a photograph.