Winter Walk on Mount Seymour
A tele-shot of a snowshoe hiker below the first peak of Mount Seymour
A tele-shot of a snowshoe hiker below the first peak of Mount Seymour
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dannyxu
January 14, 2016
In case anyone wonders if this photo was taken with a drone, let me clarify that it was taken by myself with a 70-200mm lens handheld from the summit of the First Peak of Mount Seymour.
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Behind The Lens
Location
It was taken on December 16, 2015, at Mount Seymour, a 1440-meter mountain north of Vancouver, Canada.Time
Although the photo was taken at 2pm, light from the low-lying December sun cast long shadows of the trees on the snow slopes and gave the snow slopes a very 3-D look.Lighting
I took the shot from a high point downwards in order to avoid the bright sky and but kept a bit of the dark foothill in the upper part of the frame, so as to emphasize the snow-covered slopes. The snowshoer provided a sense of scale to the picture.Equipment
My camera at that time was Canon 7D Mark II. The photo was taken with a 70-200mm f2.8 lens hand-held, at 90mm focal length (144mm full-frame equivalent), f8.0 ISO 250.Inspiration
Snow mountains are my favorite photo subject.Editing
There was just minimum post-processing in Adobe Lightroom.In my camera bag
I normally have a Canon 5D Mark IV (Mark II before 2016), a 24-70mm f2.8 lens and a 70-200mm f2.8 lens, plus a light-weight Benro tripod in my bag when I go hiking or snowshoeing.Feedback
Winter is the best time to capture beautiful and clean mountain pictures. For mountain pictures, it is always a good idea to get something, such as a human figure, a tree, etc., in the frame to give a sense of scale to the mountains.
