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Peak 6770, Upper Hongu Valley

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Peak 6770 from Baruntse Base Camp in the Hongu Valley.
Taken during the crossing of the 20,000' Sherpani and West Cols, from Makalu Base Camp, enroute to the Khumbu.
November, 2002.

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Bryan W

Simply stunning

Voted 10/10

Great colors! My guess is that this photo is nice as it is, does not even come close to doing this mountain justice.

Posted Oct 20, 2004 10:52 pm


	eza	Re: Simply stunning
	Voted 10/10	Pictures are never fair to mountains, but it's the only way to keep a souvenir (apart from memory). Anyway, justice or not, shots like this one make photography an art.
		Posted Oct 21, 2004 9:42 am


	Nelson	Re: Simply stunning
	Hasn't voted	Once again, thanks much guys. Really appreciate it. eza, also thanks for your recent advice on visiting Los Pirineos. One of these years...
		Posted Oct 22, 2004 11:00 am

truchas

Yep

Voted 10/10

Pic of the week for sure.

Posted Oct 21, 2004 12:10 am

brenta

Great Texture...

Voted 10/10

...especially on the glacier. Beautiful mountain: Look at those snow drapes!

Posted Oct 21, 2004 1:49 am

photo61guy

Wonderful light

Voted 10/10

Coloration is top shelf also...come on people get the votes up there for photo of the week!!

Posted Oct 21, 2004 4:11 am


	Nelson	Re: Thanks everyone!!
	Hasn't voted	This was an awesome moment. It had been cloudy and windy and we were playing cards in the mess tent, camped at about 18,000' / 5600m after having crossed two 20K passes. We were staying hydrated so I had to leave the tent and saw this. There was one other tripod-toting photograher on the trek and I shouted back, "Chis, you gotta get out here!". We both grabbed our tripods and shot photos during the 15 minute window before the light was gone.
		Posted Oct 21, 2004 9:01 am

Deb

Beautiful Catch

Voted 10/10

You're a very lucky man to have had the opportunity to witness the beauty. Thanks for sharing Nelson.

Posted Oct 21, 2004 10:13 am


	Nelson	Re: Beautiful Catch
	Hasn't voted	Thanks a lot Deb. I look forward to seeing your photos on SP again. I still remember that amazing portrait of El Cap that you shot. Take care and have fun with your climbing wall.
		Posted Oct 21, 2004 12:40 pm

Rick B

Resubmitted?

Voted 10/10

I'd swear I've seen this picture before (on SP)...

Anyway, it's fascinating!!

..4 stars (again :-)

Posted Oct 24, 2004 2:26 pm


	Nelson	Re: Resubmitted?
	Hasn't voted	Good memory! This was originally posted over a year ago, but Mathias asked a question about this mountain due to it being in another photo. Our discussion is here. I deleted the old one and submitted this improved, sharper scan with better color saturation. I'm glad you still like it, thanks.
		Posted Oct 24, 2004 11:44 pm


	kilimanjaro1	Re: Resubmitted?
	Hasn't voted	I am not too high tech-- How do you make a "sharper scan?" Thanks!
		Posted Oct 27, 2004 10:39 am


	Nelson	Re: Resubmitted?
	Hasn't voted	Thanks for your comments on the photo. The original submission was scanned and saved a s JPG image. I then did some color balance work since my scanner just doesn't get it right, and saved the image again as JPG. Next I either resized it or submitted it to SP too large and SP resizes it. Each of those three steps causes a loss of sharpness, which is cumulative. Details like the snow flutings on the face were very soft in the first submission. This time it was scanned and saved as a TIFF file, which is loss-less. Color balance, resizing, and sharpening could be applied before saving as a JPG only one time. This JPG was then uploaded to SP which did no further processing since the size was already OK. The final result is a noticeably sharper image.
		Posted Oct 27, 2004 12:48 pm


	kilimanjaro1	Re: Resubmitted?
	Hasn't voted	Great! Thanks for the answer...now I guess I am going to have to practice tinkering with a few photos to see how this works. But as my high school track coach always said ( I am not sure why he said it but he did) "You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear." Looks like you started with the silk purse and just made it silkier!
		Posted Oct 28, 2004 3:34 pm


	rfbolton	Re: Resubmitted?
	Hasn't voted	Nelson, absolutely stunning! Do you use a film scanner? If so, what scanner do you use? Is this a slide or a negative? Well done! Bob
		Posted Nov 7, 2004 1:29 pm


	Nelson	Re: Resubmitted?
	Hasn't voted	Thanks Bob. This is a film scanner, a now five year old HP Photosmart S20. It's not the greatest but at the time it seemed like the best value. You can find them on Ebay these days for pretty cheap. It was a slide, Fuji Provia 100. I am using Vuescan software to scan the slide, then I pull it in to Paint Shop Pro to try to get the color balance, saturation, contrast, and all-important sharpening more like I remember it. The scanner just doesn't get it right. It's taken a long time to learn how to tweak all those dials, and it is still a struggle of trial and error. Starting with a slide like this helps. If I had dropped my camera and the shutter went off it still would have been a decent shot!
		Posted Nov 8, 2004 12:10 am


	rfbolton	Re: Resubmitted?
	Hasn't voted	Interesting. I've been using a Minolta Dim�ge Scan Dual film scanner since 1998, so mine's getting pretty old too. I know exactly what you mean about correcting colors, etc., and I use PSP as well, but I quit using Vuescan, although I'm not sure why. I use the curves on the native scanner software, which seems to work fine for me, now that I've finally learned how to correct the various color problems. I shoot Provia 100F exclusively now, although I've shot Kodachrome and Ektachrome in the past as well.
		Posted Nov 8, 2004 2:02 am