Sea To Sky

Howe Sound, Whistler, Canada – Steve Rutherford Landscape Photography Art Gallery

Howe Sound, Whistler, Canada – Steve Rutherford Landscape Photography Art Gallery

This is an unframed, limited edition collection landscape photography print of only 25 units. It is printed on Hahnemuhle Fine Art Pearl papers, structured to refract the highest values in colour and detail. It’s high-quality ink absorbing layer enables exceptional image quality with enormously detailed sharpness, and a very broad colour range, providing archival permanency of your artwork for over 100 years.

On tripod, Fuji Tx-2 Panoramic Film Camera, 45mm, F16, 2 seconds, ISO 100, Fuji Velvia slide film, circular polarizing filter, scanned in a Flextight scanner, processed in Lightroom.

Believe it or not , this is literally in the side of a four lane freeway, and that waterfall is a drainpipe under the freeway. What caught my eye was the driftwood and the snow capped mountains in the distance. I had to walk back quite a distance along the side of the freeway to get to this area. With a great foreground and the height of the mountains in the background, I knew this was a vertical panorama. It also helped keep the drainage and freeway out of shot.

Howe Sound, Whistler, Canada – Steve Rutherford Landscape Photography Art Gallery

Look for ways to keep things out of your shot. Quite often we focus on what should be in our shot, but I want you to think opposite sometimes, and remove what might be too much of a distraction, or just plain ugly. If you find something requires a narrow field of view, turn your camera up into portrait mode and if you need to crop the image further when you get to editing. I’d even go so far as to find yourself a cheap panoramic camera, or even your smart phone. Try a vertical panorama for a change and see what you come up with.