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Mean, moody and magnificent. The Dachstein Massiv dominates the scenery in Central Austria, and was this was the view that Liz and I woke up to during our holiday last summer in Schladming. That is, when it wasn't raining or covered in cloud, which happens a lot in mountainous regions despite what the photos in the travel mags show.
I was sat on our balcony eating breakfast and playing with my Canon 5D plus 100-400 zoom combo when I shot this view of the Dachsteins emerging from the cloud.
As a standard colour image it didn't convey anything of the majesty and grandeur of this huge lump of limestone, but converted to monochrome using my standard technique of a hue/saturation layer followed by a channels layer, the mountain really popped against the sky and forest.
A lone radio mast gives a sort of sense of scale to this huge landscape.
Filename - mountain cloud 02.jpg
Camera - Canon 5D
Lens - 24-105mm zoom @ 105mm
Exposure - 1/400sec @ f8, ISO100
Location - Dachstein Massiv, Austria
This image - 800x533px JPEG
Conversion - ACR & PS-CS2
Comments - ND grad filter used to balance exposure.
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