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Every time I see this photo, I feel like the person on the mountain must have been shopped in later, because they look the wrong scale to me. But apparently it’s completely genuine. Amazing shot if so.
It’s because it’s a summit in a fjord, so more like a sharply cut hill than a mountain.
Ah ok - I didn’t know that and that makes sense. So the “mountain” isn’t really as big as it might seem?
What a sick shot. But you couldn’t pay me to hike that icy mountain at night.
It’s a summit in a fjord, not a mountain, thus the small size. Probably didn’t take long to get up. I would love this.
I mean its incredibly bright in that shot, to your eyes this level of lighting should be more than enough. Im more worried about the lack of harness or rope on this person.
I like to imagine there are stairs on the other side
In the winter night time isn’t all that dark. I have zero artificial light where I am, and I can see fine at night, with the lack of leaves and snow reflecting the moon and starlight. Your eyes adjust. In the summer that same area you can get turned around in.
Leaves or no, mature evergreen forests are the darkest though. Cedars and the like block way way more sunlight than deciduous leaves.
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Posting non OC is allowed here. You are allowed to not like it and address your opinion in a civil way. Take this as a warning.
If you want to make your own rules you should leave and make your own community instead of screaming in this one.
With blackjack. And hookers. You know what forget the pics
Ehhh forget the whole thing
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What about my reply offended you so much that you felt the need to write an aggressive comment towards me?
Are long exposures bad as well? Almost every picture of the northern lights looks better in a camera than how they look to the naked eye, because cameras can perform better in low light with the right settings.
I used to be quite puritanical about not editing the pictures I take, but over time I realized that there’s no way to capture perfectly realistic photos, because there is no perfect baseline for that. Every sensation of sight is already subjective, because the brain is doing a lot of image processing and each brain and eyes are a bit different. Colours don’t exist outside the brain. Dark scenes aren’t actually desaturated, our retinas just suck at colour vision in low light.
Photography tries to emulate a very subjective impression of a scene. If the photographer makes tweaks to some settings of the RAW in order to make the final image closer to the impression they were trying to capture, then that’s quite fine in my opinion. Just the same as changing the settings of the camera beforehand. If they want to include multiple exposures with different settings, then that’s fine by me as well, because your eyes change aperture and focus each time they flick to a different part of the scene.
