Yankee Boy's Carpet

Ben Egbert

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Beautiful Jim. I don't see many aspens, but if that grass and flower plants were to turn brown in fall, it would make a great image. I have been thinking that grasses and other plants that turn brown or red/yellow in fall are great candidate for fall color.
 

AlanLichty

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I like both the carpet of flowers as well as the stormy skies above. The result is some nice saturation for the flowers.
 

JimFox

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Beautiful Jim. I don't see many aspens, but if that grass and flower plants were to turn brown in fall, it would make a great image. I have been thinking that grasses and other plants that turn brown or red/yellow in fall are great candidate for fall color.
There are some Aspen lower down, but I haven't really thought of Yankee Boy for fall colors. There are too many places that have aspens in that area to spend time with. But... you make a good point about the ground cover turning colors and perhaps being of interest. Maybe it's something to check out in the fall?
 

Ben Egbert

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There are some Aspen lower down, but I haven't really thought of Yankee Boy for fall colors. There are too many places that have aspens in that area to spend time with. But... you make a good point about the ground cover turning colors and perhaps being of interest. Maybe it's something to check out in the fall?
Just making an observation. You are the guide this time. I trust your judgement explicitly. You are the Colorado guru.
 

Travis Rhoads

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Very interesting scene, I like the foreboading sky...makes me feel like its time to hike back!

Question for you about shooting wildflowers like this...in MRNP the few fields I found that had any left...I get the sense that my images don't do them any justice, they get so lost in the scene between the textures of the grasses/flowers and the colors of them don't jump out at me like they do in person. It was incredibly frustrating and I am wondering if there is something that can be done in the field to help...I used a CPL to reduce any glare and that didn't seem to help all that much.
 

Trabuco

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Nice image Jim! Those flowers must have popped out right after I left. That area made me stop in wonder even without the flowers. I have a shot from that very place just a different angle. I'll post it soon. Did you go much higher up than that? I see you're right at tree-line
 

JimFox

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Very interesting scene, I like the foreboading sky...makes me feel like its time to hike back!

Question for you about shooting wildflowers like this...in MRNP the few fields I found that had any left...I get the sense that my images don't do them any justice, they get so lost in the scene between the textures of the grasses/flowers and the colors of them don't jump out at me like they do in person. It was incredibly frustrating and I am wondering if there is something that can be done in the field to help...I used a CPL to reduce any glare and that didn't seem to help all that much.
Hey Travis, thanks for the kind words.

One thing I have found with these is the grasses do need to be toned down. I have probably desaturated the yellows by 20% in each of my wildflower shots. The other thing I have done on a couple of them, though I don't think I did it on this one, is to cool down the ground layer. By cooling down the ground a bit it helps the grasses not to be such a yellow/green and then seems to allow the flowers to stand out a bit more.

You went to Mt Rainier almost a month later then I would have recommended, so you may have just had an issue with being there too late for the bigger blooms of flowers? So that also could be an issue.
 

Travis Rhoads

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Hey Travis, thanks for the kind words.

One thing I have found with these is the grasses do need to be toned down. I have probably desaturated the yellows by 20% in each of my wildflower shots. The other thing I have done on a couple of them, though I don't think I did it on this one, is to cool down the ground layer. By cooling down the ground a bit it helps the grasses not to be such a yellow/green and then seems to allow the flowers to stand out a bit more.

You went to Mt Rainier almost a month later then I would have recommended, so you may have just had an issue with being there too late for the bigger blooms of flowers? So that also could be an issue.
I will have a look at some of this on the one image I have to edit that has good flowers. Yeah, I was about 10 days late...but the trip was not planned around flowers, it was planned around a classroom workshop I was doing...going to MRNP was just a bonus.
 

JimFox

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I will have a look at some of this on the one image I have to edit that has good flowers. Yeah, I was about 10 days late...but the trip was not planned around flowers, it was planned around a classroom workshop I was doing...going to MRNP was just a bonus.
Well, Mt Rainier is definitely a bonus then. And it does look great in all seasons, though access is pretty limited in the winter. But the other 3 seasons all are sweet.
 
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