Michael Laezza
October 2025 - Mountains
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About the Image(s)
A couple of days ago I was walking in the neighbourhood and came across a construction site and there was a mound of white gravel that attracted my attention. I took the picture with the intention of converting it to B&W. My aim was to give the impression of large snow covered mountains in the distance. I left the dark vegetation in the foreground to create some scale and tried not to show too much detail in the gravel.
Technical: Eos R100, 1/200, f8, Iso 100. Used a polarizing filter.
5 comments posted
Chris,
A man made mountain. It looks a tons of gravel for a big project.
I like your shot but it has just a little too much texture for snow...
Regards
Emil Posted: 10/02/2025 19:34:03
A man made mountain. It looks a tons of gravel for a big project.
I like your shot but it has just a little too much texture for snow...
Regards
Emil Posted: 10/02/2025 19:34:03
Mike,
I really like your idea of "creating" mountains, and I couldn't resist playing with it a bit in Camera Raw and Photoshop. To give it a sense of size, I modified the crop to create a panoramic image. Then I played with the lighting to put snow only on the tops of the mountains.
Your thoughts?
Posted: 10/05/2025 17:36:03
I really like your idea of "creating" mountains, and I couldn't resist playing with it a bit in Camera Raw and Photoshop. To give it a sense of size, I modified the crop to create a panoramic image. Then I played with the lighting to put snow only on the tops of the mountains.
Your thoughts?
Posted: 10/05/2025 17:36:03
Michael Laezza
Pete - thank you very much for the suggestion. Definitely highlighting the mountain tops helps with the illusion I wanted to create.
Mike Posted: 10/22/2025 19:52:55
Mike Posted: 10/22/2025 19:52:55
Michael, I really like the creativity in taking a pile of gravel and making it into mountains. One area that might help the mounds of gravel is to add shadows to the mounds to give impression of both light direction and depth. I made an attempt at it with my image to give you an idea of what I was thinking by using Photoshop's Camera Raw masking and painting in shadows. Posted: 10/14/2025 00:45:28
Michael Laezza
Chris - thank you for your suggestion. I will definitely rework the image with your input and input from Pete and Emil. For sure a snow covered mountain would show little detail in the snow and atmospheric conditions would affect the light in various amounts in different parts of the mountain.
Mike Posted: 10/22/2025 19:56:08
Mike Posted: 10/22/2025 19:56:08