Hurricane Ridge at sundown.
Hurricane Ridge, Olympic NP, Washington state, USA.
Feeling the need to get away from the traffic below, we drove up to this viewpoint one evening, on a road trip through Washington State and Oregon, the Pacific North West of the USA. There weren’t too many folk up there, just a few black-tailed deer for company. I just loved those misty layers. It was a great way to end the day !
I shot this on my CANON EOS 20D, with my Tamron 28-300mm lens, set at 55mm, polarising filter, on tripod, f8, 1/250sec, iso 100, Auto WB, RAW file processed in Photoshop CS3. I cooled the image down by reducing the colour temperature to make it more blue, the rest was just levels/curves adjustments.
I used a relatively wide aperture to keep the image on the soft side, enhancing the misty layers.
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Blair Wainman
This is just breath-taking!! The layers and blue-tones are awesome!! Instant fave!!!
Rany Lutz
Fantastic image. Perfect print material.
Barbara Brown
Beautiful misty capture. The first time I was at Hurricane Ridge, I kept looking for Heidi and her goats to come up the hill or Julie Andrews to come running by!!
LOL
PhotosEcosse replied
Heck, if I saw Julie Andrews coming my way I woulda run in the opposite direction ! LOL !
Gregory Ewanowich
Beautifully captured! What a great view. Love the overall hues and tones.
Linda Gregory
Absolutely fantastic!
kathy s gillen...
stunning capture
JRGarland
Beautiful capture. I love the blue coloring and the mist. Well done.
F.A. Moore
Beautiful, translucent colors. :)
PhotosEcosse
I am glad that you all like the colours – I had to re-upload this image, the colours were WAY outa wack, they still do not match my work on Photoshop or my calibrated monitor, and Yes, I double checked that the image was sRGB !
Bunny Clarke
Gorgeous and dreamy capture. Superbly done.
Gary L. Suddath
beautiful capture,love the layers
Joy & Rob Penney
Beautiful composition and depth. Love these layered mountain shots.
Jens Helmstedt
Very beautiful!!!
clmustin
Beautiful!
lorilee
Soooooo beautiful!!!!!!
Smudger
beautiful
Chuck Wickham
One of my favorite places. I haven’t been here in twenty years,thanks for taking me back.
Tracey Hampton
pretty
raindancerwoman
awesome capture..i love it!!! :)
Barb White
beautiful – I love those layers, too. Congrats on your feature!
scenescapes
Beautiful image. It’s a great place. Maybe I’ll get lucky and get to see it when it looks like this.
Laura Lea Comeau
wonderful hues !
Denis Molodkin
Great composition, excellent work!
Munggo
wow superb.
James Corley
Gorgeous shades of blue. Beautiful capture Barbara!
walela
Beautiful!
George Cousins
Beautiful image! The Ridge is across the Strait of Juan de Fuca from Vancouver Island and the city of Victoria. Every time I drive into town I can look straight across at the ridge..lol! Haven’t been there in a few years but yes, it’s a lovely place.
Lyle Hatch
That’s a sure-fire beauty – just wonderful!
Lucindawind
wow stunning !
lucin
Gorgeous.
Antanas
lovely work….
Walter Quirtmair
Very nice!
Barb White
beautiful shot of this great place to visit! Congrats on your feature!
Christophe Testi
Stunning!
AZPut
Excellent composition. I lived in Sequim until this year. Been to the Ridge many times but have never seen it looking any more lovely than your rendering here.
Shaun Whiteman
Great shot, I love the misty feel to the shot and the blue hues look great.
I know what you mean about colour “shifts”, I look at my shot in CS4, then on flickr then on RB, RB saturates and darkens shots from my experiences…it drives me mad sometimes because I have to do a RB and flickr version of my shots!!
PhotosEcosse replied
Just to compare, I loaded up IE8, and Mozilla Firefox, plus Adobe CS3, Flickr AND RB.
Mozilla Firefox -(has to be version 3.5, which IS colour managed, unlike IE8,) – on RB, and Flickr, almost an exact match to Photoshop.
On IE8, blues turned a garish and unacceptable cyan, but reds were fine, though a lot of shots were TOO saturated. Neither Flickr or RB in any way resembled what I had on my Photoshop screen.
Safari shows true colours on RB ONLY on the public view, on the buy previews, same problems as IE8, which I found rather strange.
My conclusion – I now use only Mozilla Firefox 3.5 (other versions no good) which gives the truest match to all my hard work in Photoshop ! (it is also faster !)
Nice to speak again Shaun, hope all goes well with you !
JRGimages
that is a scene I could never grow tired of…well done!!!
Gregory Ewanowich
Beautiful! Nice layers that create great depth. Well done.
Kevin Skinner
This is wonderful layering within the frame. Gorgeous blues from the end of the day. Just superb!
PS. Makes me wonder how good this would be in B&W (sorry natural for me :-D)
Mariann Rea
Simple yet marvellous! :)
Matthew Reilly
bEAUTIFUL!!
tulay cakir
stunning
Ric Alexander
Wonderful view, you have picked the right place right time, and what a result !!!!!
Strolch
Whew… what a beautiful light…!
Barbara Ingersoll
Breathtaking, absolutely! Nice job. :)
Stephen Williams
great shot. lovely layers!