That second pic is beautiful. Looks awesome!
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That second pic is beautiful. Looks awesome!
Thanks and nah, there was a grunty barbed wire fence at the base
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These are all so cool.
So I just had a revelation based on looking at one of your pics. I was going back to pick desktop wallpapers, and noticed the blue hills in the distance in this picture:
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A year or so ago, when a friend and I color corrected the Extended Blu Ray of Fellowship of the Ring (for some reason that one is green on the release, but the other two are fine, no clue why), we found that the hills had turned from a "natural" looking brown/green to a strange neon blue-teal. We played with the settings but the hills seemed to be happy to stay that shade. I had given it up as a problem caused when they did the original green tint, but now I know that's actually how hills and mountains in New Zealand look! I wonder if it's an atmospheric thing, or a type of vegetation? Looks like it starts the farther back the hills get, so my guess is atmospheric. Either way, thanks for the accidental proof!
It's atmospheric. Things fade the further away they get since there is a greater amount of stuff in the air to scatter the light, and it looks blue for the same reason the sky is blue. The teal you see comes from the fact that the trees are green...and the green is combining with the blue of the atmosphere.
As warsaw said it's definitely atmospheric - it's usually a light blue haze but sometimes after heavy rainfall it is much blue-er than usual. The sea just out of frame to the right was calm as well so there was little sea spray.
That's pretty cool, I'm of course familiar with typical atmospheric haze, but I've never seen that hue before, it's quite pretty.
I've probably also exaggerated it a bit more than you'd normally see, but it's definitely noticeable to the naked eye.
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Your photography is so damn crisp. Keep it up man.
Oh Boy.
Tripped up to Mueller Hut, a 4 hour slog 1.1km uphill. Plenty of photos to come.
