Furka Pass, Tiefenbach, Switzerland. Photoessay. December 2018.
Alpine choughs
[Pyrrhocorax graculus]
[as always: click to enlarge]
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Images: Ricoh GR II, GR Lens f=18.3 mm 1:2.8. .DNG RAW format. Edited in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom.
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Wow, einfach schön! Macht grad Lust zum malen, diesmal mit Pinsel.
Danke!
Wow, these pictures are very beautiful.❤️
A completely different style, but very nice, and for me so quiet – so unique
I think it must be something else sometimes.
Otherwise its boring.
Great! In my opinion is this blog perfect.❤️☺️ Keep it up❤️
Hej Olivia, thank you so much for your comment! I really appreciate your opinion and I am very happy you like my alpine chough images. You are right, why sticking always to the same old style? Why not trying something else? Making a photograph (I do not take a photograph, I make it – do you see the difference?) is a inside out process of creativity, we all are free to manipulate the original image according to our perception. You remember the perfect weather conditions on the Furka pass? Bright sunlight conditions combined with tons of nearly pure whites of the powder snow gave a dramatic high key image – so I decided to push the light even more and go with a massively overexposed development: I brightened up the whites, removed and retouched the dark rocks in the background, softened it a little, went with an overall low contrast and some grainy noise to achieve the analogue film look, made a slight vignetting to the edges, then finally sharpened the alpine choughs and enhanced their contrast and vibrance. Admittedly this took a few minutes work in post, but at the end the result looked exactly how I wanted. I am glad you like the images. Thank you once again for your comment!
Beautyful! I like the white colour in the pictures and this dreamy area! Its a nice blog!
Hej Cécile, thank you very much for your comment, I am happy you like my blog post. I often remember those two days on the Furka pass – it was such an extraordinary experience to walk over one of the top Swiss passes … great, and the fact that we climbed it in wintry conditions on our snow shoes makes me really proud. And the second day we built an igloo, a real one with a real entry from the bottom – oh those happy days! Who else has ever had the priviledge to build an igloo on the Furka pass?
You know, having my camera with me all the time is important. The best camera is always the one you carry with you.
The whites you love are in fact parts of the blue sky, the choughs were in strong backlight conditions. Instead of correcting all the lens flares which happen in this bright backlight I deciced to overexpose the images in post processing, which means I brightened the whites and the blues even more. This helped to achieve the soft high key look of the images. I love them as well; they are really dreamy – as you say, you are right. Thank you very much for reading my blog and for your comment!
Yes, you’re right!
Do you remember when we built a kangaroo and a penguin of snow?
And Mami built a owl! 🙂
Yes of course I remember – all the igloo was decorated with exotic animals like a zoo 😉