Mt. Rainier Vista
Yes, another shot of the mountain. This was a test with a new lens; every lens has to show me what it can do with a view of Rainier. :)
Whenever I get a new lens, it’s all find and good to take pictures of people, flowers, gardens, hoses, roses, noses.
But a lens has to show me what it can do with Mt. Rainier if it expects to stick around. This was shot with the new edition of the Sony 70-200 f/2.8 zoom lens. I think it’s a keeper.
There are a lot of small hills and mountains in front of Rainier, and the only way to even begin to include its massive shoulders in the shot is to step back. 20 miles, 30 miles, 50 miles—the further back you go, the more you see. We live pretty close to the mountain, so my pictures seldom show the shoulders. You can get just a peek of them in this phot; I was literally as far back from it as I could get in Orting, WA—the Puyallup River was behind me, farmland in front of me.
(There was a ridge on the other side of the river, though, and I’m going to explore up there to find a good high spot to see more of the lower reaches of the mountain.)
Five-shot panorama at 200mm. ISO 100, f/4.5, 1/2000th of a second exposure.
I decided to go with black and white because it really showcases the mountain. Here is the color image if you like color better:
That is more or less natural color and intensity; I did not use ‘postcard colors’ on this one. I was curious to see what the natural result was from the new lens. But flashy colors actually looked really terrible with this image; I think it looks at its best with natural color.