Photos

Looking north from the first peak of the Squamish Chief. Composed of a chain of three peaks, each consecutively harder to get to (read: higher and longer hike) my girlfriend and I only managed the first peak.

I'm not sure what mountain is located in the background, but the city located to the bottom left is Squamish.

Shot with a circular polarizer to darken the sky, red filtered to bring it down further and finally, with a second layer over top of the image set to "overlay" kept on laying on the black (on the sky) with a soft brush until I got the contrast desired. Added touches of extra black to the corners to vignette the frame a little. Like using the overlay method than the dodge/burn tool as those tools also affect the whites and blacks, overlay just messes with the midtones.