Pico from Faial Photo

Photographer’s Note

Pico island and volcano, seen from the top of another volcano on Faial island. Pico at 2351m. altitude is the highest point in Portugal, and very rarely visible. The photo was taken from about 1000m. alt. (from the summit of Faial island's volcano, accessible by road). It was very windy, I was waiting and reading a book inside the car for the light to improve, and for a few minutes, the clouds cleared from Pico, later they came back and covered it again. Even the tourist brochures say " there is always some kind of cloud on Pico." The clouds did clear again the next day for a few hours when I was on Pico island itself, photos to follow one day soon.

22mm. focal length.

0.6 Lee sytems ND Grad soft edge filetr used.

A zoomed photo of the peak will be in workshop.

euryan, chpp, bakes888, carper, MiguelP, shirgold has marked this note useful

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euryan (8345) 2008-03-21 15:59

The best view as usual :-)
I really like the clouds at the top of this photo. It gives the photo a ceiling almost. The 22mm focal length is perfect because it gives us a great view with nice depth, but any wider and Pico would be too small. Glad you waited for the clouds to clear.
Regards,
Ryan

chpp (3972) 2008-03-21 17:11

Hi Tan
another beautiful shor. the view is great, I love the mountain in the BG with the cloud across. Excellent light and very nice colour contrast with the different "layers"
have a nice weekend
chris

bakes888 (18155) 2008-03-21 17:54

Hi Tan. Patience, one of the virtues needed by landscape photographers. Hope the book was good. Worth the wait though. Playing spot the mountain through the clouds can lead to great shots like this. Well captured and thanks for sharing.
Cheers, Paul.

Dyerco (9038) 2008-03-21 19:02

Hi Tan
The view is spectacular and the colours are really nice. I'm thinking that there may be too much FG yellow and a crop of about half of the yellow FG would provide a better balance of colour.
Phil

carper (64638) 2008-03-22 0:36

it's a very nice view Tan,
good looking throught the pico, the pov is nice and the view is good, fine photojob, have a good weekend my friend.
gr. jaap

romanaa (2551) 2008-03-22 1:38

Hi Tan,
I love the top of the mountain being above that cloud. The picture has very pleasant natural soft colours, nice light with the shades of clouds.
Well done
Best regards
Romana

Greg1949 (8507) 2008-03-22 3:09

Incredible visibility Tan and you have made the most of it. Great color and detail and composition, great capture.

Greg

sacavem (8231) 2008-03-22 3:58

Olá Tan,

Beautiful POV scenery.Great perspective and depth.Two very beautiful Islands of the Açores.Great colours and a very pleasant composition. Sky and the clouds colours are all nice perspective is excellent. Good DOF.
Best Regards, and have a nice weekend,
Filipe

MiguelP (14324) 2008-03-22 6:00

Hi Tan... Impressive shot of the mountain with the clouds making a cut, achieving that it looked even higher than the 2351 meters of altitude. Splendide DOF. Congratulations.

jonathan_hart (22570) 2008-03-23 3:28

you're a specialist of wide views from high POV,
maybe a pano format could work well with this shot
regards
jo

shirgold (2439) 2008-04-02 10:50

Hi Tan,
The Acores seems to be amazing.
Another great capture - and a lucky one!
TFS, Shir