Wimbachgries

Yesterday the weather was really excellent and I made the long planned hike to the Wimbachgries and Wimbachgrieshütte (originally wanted to go there with Shuwen but we just visited the Wimbachklamm gorge because a heavy rainfall started just as we arrived and parked the car).


"Wimbachgries" (NIKON D700, 1/125s @ ISO 320; f/11, 19 mm)

The Wimbachgries (sorry, Wikipedia only has a german article) is a really exceptional area: the mountains surrounding the upper part of the valley are made of dolomite and they slowly but steadily errode into a giant gravel "stream". It does carry water, but only during snowmelt it surfaces. Most of the year the water flows underground, and only surfaces at a dam near the valleys entry (the dam is there also to stop the enormous amount of gravel "flowing" farther down) where it formed the Wimbachklamm gorge.

The photo is also an example for my previous post about the dynamic range/highlight differences between the S5pro and the D700. It was made with an exposure bias of -1 EV to preserve the highlights, and at home I pulled up the shadows a lot in Lightroom (Fill Light +83; amongst other edits, of course).

Besides that, it is also a good example of the shortcomings of the sRGB color space: the blue is simply wrong when exported from Lightroom, which is especially notable in the walls of the mountains. :-/

PS: I've adjusted the blue for the JPEG/sRGB export version and replaced the image. What you see now is mostly what I want you to see. :)