Mountain Sky

This work by Adam M is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 Australia License.

The mountain in the late afternoon.

Canon Powershot A720 - 1/101 sec - f/3.5 - ISO 80 - ~85mm

Daylight.

Used GIMP to rotate, crop and adjust levels. Histogram showed three bumps, foreground, middle ground (mountains, clouds) and background (sky). Set low point to bottom of middle ground (effectively blacking foreground), adjusted middle point to bottom of background (darkening image). I cloned some sky back in, after rotating, but it was too apparent once the levels were adjusted, so I cloned again. Scaled for web.

I freaked out when I first tried to find today's photo as I'd only taken one on my K-x, of an out-of-focus suitcase lying on a bed. I took the dog for a walk on this day and took my compact camera along, to try to get the sun setting behind the mountains. This shot was taken early, as a safety, and good thing, since I didn't find a better vantage point, and only took a couple of blurry photos (nice composition, but it was too dark, may try again with a sturdier tripod and my K-x, which is better in low light).