The Color of Hope

[Jens Peermann]

Hope Valley, that is. Taking on yesterday's scouting trip. This one is at a different location from yesterday's post. Between Pickett's Junction and Sorensen's. The color is a little more advanced here, but there are still many green leaves around, something I like a lot better than when its all yellow or red.





EOS 40D, Sigma 10-20 @ 15 mm, f/11, ISO 200. 2009, September 26.

[Greg Russell]

I like this very much! Looking forward to getting up there in a couple of weeks!

[Jens Peermann]

Looking forward to getting up there in a couple of weeks!

Don't wait too long. It won't last. A great place - and also much closer to you - is the Sabrina Basin, just west of Bishop. At 9000 feet (Hope Valley is 7000) it may be peaking soon. A good source for color information is - or at least used to be - this site: http://www.calphoto.com/fall.htm.

Good Shootin'!

[Greg Russell]

Looking forward to getting up there in a couple of weeks!

Don't wait too long. It won't last. A great place - and also much closer to you - is the Sabrina Basin, just west of Bishop. At 9000 feet (Hope Valley is 7000) it may be peaking soon. A good source for color information is - or at least used to be - this site: http://www.calphoto.com/fall.htm.

Good Shootin'!

The soonest I can get out is 10/9. I think most of Bishop Creek Canyon will be peaked by then, as well as Rock Creek. I'm planning (tentatively) on spending my time in the Lee Vining area, because as of yesterday most of those trees were still green (much thanks to Joe Lemm for the report).

[Jens Peermann]

I'm planning (tentatively) on spending my time in the Lee Vining area

I highly recommend Lundi Lake in that area. From Lee Vining drive north on US 395 for a few miles, to the intersection with Hwy 167. Turn west there and follow the road for about three or four miles. It's the cutest little lake in the Eastern Sierra and it usually gets color a week or two before Lee Vining Canyon does.

[Paul Klenck]

wow, the trees really look like they are exploding with color. The detail is too much for a small web posting to handle, but maybe backing off the sharpening might help a bit.

On images with a lot of detail such as this, I use a blending option under layer styles to reduce sharpening at the brightest and darkest parts of the image and it helps reduce the "crunchiness" in the high detail areas. There are probably other ways to achieve this, too.

[John Labrenz]

Awesome fall colors in full glory...very nice.

[Jens Peermann]

Thanks everybody.

Paul, there is no output sharpening on this one, the image just has so much detail that the quality went down to 40% when optimized for the file size allowed. I could see the artifacts already in the preview - even in the sky where there is no detail - before I sent it to my server.

[Paul Skoczylas]

Wonderful colour!

-Paul

[E.J. Peiker]

A classic fall Aspen shot. Nicely done.

[Ganina]

Great fall color shot Jens. I love the color of Aspens

Rick

[sgingold]

Wonderful Fall color Jens. We don't really get much in the way of large stands of Aspen around here, so it's nice to see yours. Thanks for sharing.

[CPR]

Hi Jens,

Nice color of trees with a great blue sky.
A succeeded photo

My only nit is the lower left angle where the light is to harsh

[R.J. Sindelar]

Jens,

Nice fall aspen shot. Gotta love those colors!