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Windy Hill - January 2, 2009

Windy Hill
Big On White

I've been a bit busy, sick, bummed out about my ear, and not feeling all too creative at the moment, so I yanked this one from the archives.

Here's another shot from when the sky opened up back in January when checking out the Russian Ridge area along highway 35 that runs along the peninsula from San Francisco down to Santa Cruz.

I converted to a monochrome with a very slight blue toning. I also used a luminosity mask for some subtle dodging in the clouds to get a little more detail. The sky just kept ripping open and closing up, causing the exposures to be all over the place.

Nikon D300
Nikkor 70-200mm @ 70mm
1/13 sec @ f8, ISO 125
B+W Polarizer
Lee .9 Hard and .9 Soft GND Filters