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Are
11 hours of
hiking through the
night worth this photo?
I really asked myself this question as I stood at the
summit of Fuji-San in Tokyo, Japan. Me and three friends started around
8 pm at the
bottom of the
volcano. We
hiked up the
whole night until we arrived at the
summit around
5 pm. Gasping for air I stood there and watched the
spectacular sunrise above the
pacific.
I can tell you the
sunrise was
majestic and definitely
worth the hike! The bad thing was the
descent. We arrived in a really
aggressive mood around
14 pm at the bottom. You can or cannot imagine the scene.
The whole night there was the stress of hiking and after you got the present of seeing the sunrise you still have to
hike down at
temperatures close to zero degree with the
fine stones that
lash into your face and through your Jeans.
I am not sure if I would do the trip again but in the end it was worth it.
So I possibly would :)
Besides this is one of the
advanced shots. As the
clouds are
moving really really
fast you are not able to do
HDR techniques here.
The clouds they destroy the whole
HDR calculation. As I browsed my shot I found 2 that are possible to be processed. One of them you see here.
The
boundaries of a
Raw file can be seen in the
clouds at the foreground.
You see that in the parts of the image where the sun does not shine it is really dark. You cannot restore the parts from the file.
A
gradient ND Filter might help here.
These days Flickr is like
therapy for me. I am writing my
Master exams and there is a lot of work. I don’t have that much time for photography. But after every test, like today, I upload a shot.
Also thanks for commenting, faving or showing love on my recent images. I read everything you guys write and try to come back to your streams as far as time allows.
Ben
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