Mont Tremblant

[Manfred M]

We have just started doing a fall leaf tour and our first stop is Mont Tremblant, with it's faux-Swiss Village look.

The leaves are just starting to turn and it's a nice place to spend a few days relaxing.





The shot was taken from the small open gondola that whisks people from the lower part of the village to the upper part. This is where the main ski lifts and gondolas take people up to the ski hills. The gondola was moving quite quickly at the time I took this shot.

[chauncey]

Damn Manfred...that is a superior image!

[Mike Buckley]

It looks so pristine that it almost looks like a miniature imitation.

[rpcrowe]

Whe I first viewed this lovely image, I also thought it was a miniature. Great job!

[NorthernFocus]

Definitely an interesting locale. Fall just starting? Our leaves are almost done. Granted we live at 1500ft elevation and the valley floor is just now showing good color(aka colour). Nicely captured.

[Shadowman]

Nicely done.

[Manfred M]

Definitely an interesting locale. Fall just starting? Our leaves are almost done. Granted we live at 1500ft elevation and the valley floor is just now showing good color(aka colour). Nicely captured.

Down here at lower latitudes and altitudes, the fall leaf displays are just thinking about getting started. Certain trees, especially the Sumac are well into their fall colours. The Sugar Maples are definitely starting to go red as well. Higher altitudes are showing slightly more advanced colours, but places where near where we live tend to peak around Canadian Thanksgiving (2nd Monday in October).

Algonquin Park, which is one of the best known fall leaf sites in the area usually peaks around Sep 24. The Canadian North Shore of Lake Superior usually peaks in the last week of September. We'll see how this year goes...

[Ziggy]

Image does have a unique look.

[Manfred M]

Image does have a unique look.

I've always wondered what a Swiss village was doing in the Laurentian Mountains, in Quebec. I guess its what the people who like skiing at these types of resorts want to see, and the developers do their best to accommodate them.

[bnnrcn]

Beautiful

[Rider in the Sky]

Nikon D50. kit lens:18-55mm (no VR) @ 18mm. Sports mode: f/3.5, 1/800 ( we were on the cable car) ,ISO720. matrix. autoWB. shot in jpg.

Gosh, how I wish I could get close to the quality of your images. ( sigh...)

[rpcrowe]

Vic...

The kit lenses can produce some very good imagery but, the are generally not at their optimum when shot wide open. They usually do a bit better when stopped down a few stops to around f/8.

I don't know about Nikon kit lenses but the later Canon kit lenses which include IS (Canon's version of VR) are optically superior to the non IS earlier model lenses. The cost of a Canon kit lens with IS is not all that high. Again I don't know about Nikon.

However, the Tamron 17-50mm f/2.8 non-VC lens is pretty inexpensive (especially on the used market) and produces quite good imagery, especially at f/3.5 and smaller apertures.

But, with some minimal cropping and bit of sharpening, IMO your image can be improved.



I am wondering what the result would have been if you had chosen a mode in which you could have increased the ISO to get an exposure around f/5.6 or f/8?

[Manfred M]

I am wondering what the result would have been if you had chosen a mode in which you could have increased the ISO to get an exposure around f/5.6 or f/8?

My shot was taken with the f/2.8 24-70mm Nikkor. ISO 160 with a focal length of 42mm. Shot at f/11 at 1/50th. For shots like this I tend to shoot between f/8 and f/11, as that is really the "sweet spot" for this lens.

The shot is uncropped.

As a rule, most lenses tend to perform best in the f/8 - f/11 range. I also will tend to shoot at or close to the camera's base ISO (ISO 100 with my camera), as it produces the lowest sensor noise and the highest colour depth. I have no issues hand-holding at fairly low shutter speeds, especially at or below the "normal" focal length for the sensor size.

This image was from raw data so I was able to pull things out in post. Where I find I get "pop" i my images is being careful to set my white point and black point.

From a composition standpoint, I ensured no part of the gondola was in the shot and I framed the shot so show some of the buildings on the right hand side of the frame. I also was careful to keep too much of the material on the left side of the frame, as that part of the village looked a bit too busy.

[selig1656]

Wow on that first pic , now that is a blue sky and the town almost feels staged for beauty.

[Manfred M]

Wow on that first pic , now that is a blue sky and the town almost feels staged for beauty.

The skies have been absolutely fantastic over the past couple of days. Not so much tomorrow as we are supposed to get some rain.

The "village" is absolutely "staged for beauty". It is low season right now (which is why we are here as we are not skiers), but it is apparently one of the top ski resorts in Eastern North America, so "image" is part of the package that the people that come here are buying.

[IzzieK]

How can you photograph a scene like this that looks like a miniaturized village? With a scene like this, I cannot think with my feet...!!!

[Manfred M]

How can you photograph a scene like this that looks like a miniaturized village? With a scene like this, I cannot think with my feet...!!!

Izzie - I watched the scene on the way up on the gondola, planned my shots and took them when I rode down again. I took three shots. I liked the first one best and posted it.

[Manfred M]

How can you photograph a scene like this that looks like a miniaturized village? With a scene like this, I cannot think with my feet...!!!

Izzie - I watched the scene on the way up on the gondola, planned my shots and took them when I rode down again. I took three shots. I liked the first one best and posted it.

[wtlwdwgn]

Oh come now. That's just a closeup of a Hallmark village scene. Very nice image!