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Exif: ISo 200,f/8, 1/25 at 11 mm.

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Cadence Gamache 2 years ago

Wow!!! Stunning!!!

Henrik Just 2 years ago

Hi John

I´ve tried to capture this place in a way that made justice to its beauty, but I didn`t really succeed in my efforts.
Right here I can see in this wonderful shot how it must be done with great succes !
Very well executed !
Congrats !

Regards

Henrik

Peter Olexa 2 years ago

Great photo :)

carried in Cruzine: http://www.cruzine.com/2010/08/24/mountains-photography/

Hans Van Rafelghem 2 years ago

So... this will be closed? Too bad, what a view :)

CelineM 3 years ago

Extraordinaire....

Franz Schumacher 3 years ago

Tolle Landschaft in Norwegen. Sehr schoen. Gefaellt mir sehr gut. Gruß vom Franz

Olivier Raffy 3 years ago

Fabulous landscape and great capture! Snakes are my phobia but this one is fantastic! ;)

Semir 3 years ago

great shot :)

Cphototrip 3 years ago

here came the Troll up?... why this name..?

Repro 3 years ago

Beautiful work, John, wonderful and dramatic sky and light!

Brin 3 years ago

Magnificent!

Niels Christian Wulff 3 years ago

Very nice John, love the depth and light in this!! Well made :-)
/Wulff

Anna Lepke 3 years ago

I havn't seen a picture of this place from that angle. I like it a lot. Very moody or shall a say "trollsk".

John Colbensen "Trollsk" I agree...hmm what would "trollsk" be in english? ehhh.."trollish" ? ;) I had to climb out on some rocks to get the angle I wanted. I could easily fall (about 60 meters down there) but I've never been scared of heights,and that might NOT be a good thing. Thank you Anna,for kind words :)

WK Chew 3 years ago

Amazing B & W shot. I love it very much

John Colbensen I bow my head and utter "thank you WK" :)

Edy Santosa 3 years ago

Wow, Amazing!

John Colbensen Thanks a lot Edy :)

Polydactyle 3 years ago

Terrifying b/w, terrifying landscape. Excellent one!

John Colbensen Terrifying comment,thanx :)

John Colbensen 3 years ago

Thank you all. This really made me happy :)

Yngve Lundström 3 years ago

The processing gave great result.

John Colbensen The colours were dull so the idea to present it in B/W was obvious. Thanks Yngve :)

Jorge Goncalves Silva 3 years ago

We can see the landscape grandiosity in this photo. Great !

John Colbensen Wonderful reading you give me here Jorge.thank you :)

FourHandsPhoto 3 years ago

GoooD!-100000000*

John Colbensen ThaaaaankS! :)

Dare Turnsek 3 years ago

Excellent!

John Colbensen Thank you Dare. :)

Rootbearone 3 years ago

great perspective, wonderful photo

John Colbensen Can you hear my smile? Thanks R. :)

Patricia Sweeney 3 years ago

wow, really dynamic!

John Colbensen Thank you so much Patricia :)

Johan Nieuwerth 3 years ago

Great shot, John, this is the Trollstigen in Norway, right? I've been there too, amazing how you captured it!

John Colbensen Spot on Johan. It's about 1 1/2 hours drive from my home. A wonderful place to be. And your comment was super,thank you :)

Johan Nieuwerth What? I was already jealous of the shot itself, now I'm jealous of THAT too! :-)

John Colbensen It's kind of funny.When you live in the midst of beauty you seem to ignore it after some years.But photography is a tool that make me see the beauty again.And I feel so lucky living in the midst of it :)
ps. I saw your Icelandseries...nice stuff. Iceland will be my next aim!! :)

Johan Nieuwerth Iceland is SO worth a visit... you really should go! Check out e.g. the pictures of Raymo here on 1X, they are truly amazing. By the way, I also experimented a bit on Fotopedia. If you look at an album I created there (http://www.fotopedia.com/albums/rjEnCsr7PTE) then you also have some Wikipedia / Google Maps context, it's a nice site.

Sebastian-Alexander Stamatis 3 years ago

John, this reminds me of the steep mountain sides in Greece with the dizzy roads. Nostalgia trip.
Great composition and powerful post-processing. It really adds a dramatic mood with those dark clouds. Bravo

With regards,

Sebastian-Alexander

John Colbensen I can't imagine how difficult it must have been to build this road...opened in 1936.Thank you for your kind words Sebastian :)

JBA 3 years ago

What a place! great shot. I wouldn't want to be going uphill on a bicycle though.

John Colbensen You would certainly have tired legs JBA. Thanx:)

John Parminter 3 years ago

I can imagine having fun on my Ducati round them bends.....if I still had it of course.:(

JP

John Colbensen You had a Ducati? That would've been something to portray in these surroundings. feel sorry for your loss though...I bet it was red...;)

John Parminter Indeed, it was red John. Had a lot of fun on it and used it quite a bit to travel the country when working in different locations but had to stop every half hour or so with sore arms and a numb arse.... eventually it had to go when wife and children came along though.
I haven't been tempted to reaquaint myself with a bike in mid-life, probably a safe thing!
JP

John Colbensen haven't really gotten into the biker-life. But I must confess it looks like "freedom" is a keyword. And yes, wives and kids have a tendency to put a stop to our egotrips..;) Maybe it's for the better .:)

Angela Bacon-Kidwell 3 years ago

I just love the B/W- Great shot. Location?

John Colbensen It's funny but I tend to go more and more over to B/W.Must be 1X that has been tampering with my brains :) Location: Trollstigen,Moere & Romsdal County,Norway. Lovely words Angela,thank you :)

Aslan G. Aghdam 3 years ago

What a wonderful picture it is!!!

John Colbensen A billion thanks have been sent your way Aslan :)

Judy W 3 years ago

I love the low key approach.

John Colbensen I tried many approaches but ended up with a dark version.Happy to see others agree with me.Thanks Judy :)

Wiktor Klette 3 years ago

Verldig bra.

John Colbensen Tusen takk Wiktor. Setter stor pris på kommentaren :)

Daniel Portal 3 years ago

that road took me for a ride! it carried me up and down like a kid to the candy store....congratulations
d

John Colbensen I have a Landrover and it's pretty exhausted when reaching the top..a real rollercoaster. Thank you for commenting daniel :)

Ed Loverock Babb 3 years ago

beautiful composition, love the dark and light play here

John Colbensen Kind words Ed,thank you so much :)

Robert 3 years ago

I wane take my moto bike there! Great spot!

Robert

John Colbensen Hope you have a powerful motor on that bike of yours :) thanx

Robert V2 / 1200 ccm / 105 Nm and Erik build it, it should be sufficient:-)

John Colbensen I rest my case :)

Arkadius Zagrabski 3 years ago

great shot, nice b/w.

arkadius

John Colbensen thank you for a wonderful comment Arkadius :)

Slavomir M. 3 years ago

nice

John Colbensen Thanx:)

shafagh.kalhor 3 years ago

Great captured
bravo

John Colbensen All smiles...all smiles . thanks:)

Codrin Lupei 3 years ago

Excellent image of a wonderful place, John, like it a lot, really well done!

John Colbensen I will carry those words Codrin.Thank you :)

Matjaz 3 years ago

Well captured!

John Colbensen Thank you Matjaz:)

Xaxas 3 years ago

Bravo! A very good picture indeed.

BTW just by looking at the camera raw settings in the exif I learned a whole new method of converting to grayscale, huge thanks for leaving the exif!

Patricia Sweeney Hi Xaxas, ok, I'll expose my ignorance here, how do you find this info about the camera raw settings on an image that is not yours? thanks..

Xaxas Well I saved it on my PC (while I tend to do this with a lot of pictures that are not mine the only reason for that is to learn some things by looking at the EXIF data and delete them afterwards, so I hope this is not a problem for their respective authors)

Once I opened the image with Adope PS CS4 under File -> File Info -> Advanced -> Schema there is information about the camera raw adjustments, applied to the image during conversion from RAW to TIFF.
Here is a screenshot of the menu in question: http://img10.imageshack.us/img10/3040/screeniegb.jpg
As you can see it contains information about the colour temperature, contrast, clarity and the different colour sliders. Basically every single setting that has been applied.
I have no idea whether or not the layout is the same in the older versions of Adobe PS, tho. I've only ever used CS4.

Patricia Sweeney Xaxas thank you so much for your detailed answer, this is great info! This opens up a whole new reason to spend too much time on my computer! :-))) REally appreciate your time in answering...
P

Xaxas I'm glad I could help.
Good luck and have a nice evening (or rather have a nice day, seeing that you're from NYC) :)

John Colbensen Great info Xaxas. See,I didn't know this .Thanks again :)

John Colbensen Thanx Xaxas. I don't know how you found the Exif but I've now written it under the pic. I seem to forget this :)

Bruce 3 years ago

Awe-inspiring vista, liked it a lot in screening

John Colbensen Kind words Bruce,thank you :)

Vlad Dumitrescu 3 years ago

amazing landscape!
Congrats!

John Colbensen Thank you Vlad. Norway has a lot to offer..(commercialtime...;))

Vlad Dumitrescu Romania too, trust me! :o)

Daniel Hasselberg 3 years ago

Love it!!! Were is it?

John Colbensen Thanx David. You would have to go to Norway to see this.It's called "Trollstigen" (the Troll Ladder).It's pretty steep with an incline of about 9 %.Very fascinating to drive here :)