Alpine climber

SamJT · 19 Jul 2016

My latest adventure took me to Foron in the French Alps, a fairly well known climbing spot with views over Mont Blanc. Here's my favourite shot.

wessyfiesta · 20 Jul 2016

Very well captured works well in B&W

mag1882 · 15 Aug 2016

Would you mind posting the original? I'm having difficulty figuring out what's real and what isn't. Agreed wess

Jayst84 · 15 Aug 2016

Nicely shot. I'd prefer it without the pink highlights though, and probably either as a colour, or black and white image, without the split toning. That would help to hide the area around the climber where the sky is starting to blow out as well. As it is, you've got pink, and a very obvious patch of white around him.

cuillinade · 18 Aug 2016

It would be nice to know a bit more and see the original shot. Is it just one shot or are two shots blended together.

Doormat · 26 Aug 2016

Classy image. Well seen and taken.

SamJT · 17 Oct 2016

I've since re-edited it and uploaded it to our website. The original edit was done in a car after not much sleep hence bizarre colours and the outline around the climber.

@cuillinade the image was one shot, exposed for the background to leave the nice silhouette

RAW image here:

snap-happy · 17 Oct 2016

err that's a JPEG - maybe from a raw but it's not a raw.

Wayne Els · 17 Oct 2016

It's a nice silhouette of the guy getting lowered off but the Mt B massif just doesn't look right to me. I understand why you went with the name but I clicked on it expecting to see alpinism, someone cragging was a bit of a disappointment.

SamJT · 18 Oct 2016

Haha I've come far enough with my photography to know the difference between a JPEG and RAW, I assumed @mag1882 meant they wanted to see how much editing had gone into it so I just screenshotted the RAW file, I'm not going to provide a download link to the original file!

@Wayne Els I don't confess to know anything about climbing, this was the first time I've taken photos of climbers so as far as the title goes I just kept it simple, its a climber in the alps

I've got other similar photos of the ascent but they don't have quite the same impact in terms of the silhouette. I think its just one of those things about taking photos of a sport you're not familiar with