I took this in Switzerland, near Ebenalp. To the human eye, haze was noticeable, but in the camera it’s much more prominent. How would you process this? Leave the haze there? Remove it as much as possible? What would you do about the colours and the clouds? Feel free to play.
That’s what you get when a guy like me, who never saw a real mountain in his life, moves to an alpine country . In Hungary, any hike must end at no higher than 1014 m (about 3300 feet), as that’s our tallest mountain. Here, in Switzerland, that’s where we start walking, having taken the cable car or funicular. Maybe I’ll get bored with the Alps, but for now, I think that’s unlikely.
Well, me, being Dutch, looks at your Hungarian mountain with awe! Our highest point is 323m (1060ft) and it is just, barely, inside the Netherlands: Push it 100m to the east and it becomes a German “mountain” . They had the audacity to put the word mountain (berg) in its name: Vaalserberg.
Then again, our lowest point is 6,6m (22ft) below sea-level. Don’t think many countries can say that.
Been to many countries that have real mountains, Austria, Switzerland and Norway among them, and I have to admit that mountains are awesome. I don’t think I would easily get bored of them either.
The everything in the kitchen sink approach. From my experience I rarely if ever got a decent result shooting wide landscapes in with harsh sun on a hazy day. From playing around with dehazing algorithms they usually seemed better in the paper than the results I could achieve.
I think you pulled highlights down, and did not adjust filmic afterwards, so there is no real white (or anything close to white) in the image, which makes it somewhat dull.