Only a panorama could convey the magic, scale and expanse of these mountains, so I found a spot in a roadside paddock with a massive ridge rearing before me into the swirling clouds. I shot my panorama quickly, so as to avoid getting rain on the lens. The camera was handheld on a fairly high ISO in order to keep my shutter speed high enough to avoid camera shake. I couldn’t wait to get back home and pull up the images on the mac.
The more I looked at the image, and shots of mist, clouds and rain from other photographers, I knew I could get much closer to the impression I had of the scene. I brought up the Raw files and made a new version, trying to capture much more of the feeling of a wet day, the darker colours of wet grass and rock and softer clouds swirling in and out of crags revealing, hiding and layering the landscape far into the distance This new picture is a much better expression of my vision of The Remarkables that damp day.