Sometimes I just like to go out in the evenings to take a few pictures locally. Last week I had a friend, Bill McAdam visiting and we went out for a couple of hours to see what we could find. We visited a couple of areas very close to home and got some good evening light on the local peaks.
Here’s one of Ha Ling Peak, with the Whiteman’s Reservoir in the foreground. The sun is setting behind Mount Rundle on the right and is shining through Whiteman’s Pass onto Ha Ling.
The next picture was taken from a nearby location, looking north across the Bow Valley to the Fairholme Range on the opposite side. That’s Mount Lady Macdonald on the right, named for the wife of Canada’s first Prime Minister, Sir John A. Macdonald.
My last two pictures feature Canmore’s landmark, the iconic Three Sisters Mountains. The first scene is again illuminated from behind the range to the right, with sunlight breaking through some cloud cover onto the mountains.
My final picture is the same. I thought it might look good in black and white, so here it is. Which do you prefer? I think I was right about the black and white but then, each to his own.
Hi Peter,
I like the B&W of the three sisters, but I think you have not finished working on the colour picture as yet because the white balance is off (it is too blue). I do not know if you use Lightroom, but if you do, try selecting the eyedropper and click on the white clouds in the develop mode. If I am correct, this will produce a lovely warm looking picture that you can then continue to enhance.
See how this works. You might find it difficult to decide which you prefer; the B&W or the colour picture!
The B&W is great! Did you ‘touch it up’ ?
I did the black and white using Topaz Labs “Black and White Effects”, a plug-in to Photoshop. It’s a specialty package that enables the user to do just about anything with black, white and the almost infinite variety of greys in between.