Everest Base Camp

[Lamper]

This was taken on my charity trek to Everest Base Camp in November. You can see Everest on the right, and Kalapatar on the left. The building in the foreground make up a small outpost called Gorak Shep - the last stop before Base Camp.

Canon 450D with Canon 10-22mm

Taken at 10mm @ F3.5 - 1/1600sec - ISO 100
(I know that the aperture should have been much smaller, but I think it have still captured a good amount of detail - to be honest I forgot as altitude does funny things to the mind!!)

NO PHOTOSHOP ON THIS ONE YET

[chrean]

This is a nice shot, then what's the question about it?

[junglebear]

This is a great shot already

The foreground gives depth and a sense of scale very well, there's a human element and multiple points of interest without being too cluttered. Very nice!
The one thing I don't like is the cloud being right over Everest, it kind of merges the mountain into the sky and takes away a bit of the grandeur. I'd consider replacing it with a bluer sky, if you don't consider that to be 'cheating'

[Lamper]

Don't really have a question as such, just looking for some constructive criticism, whatever that might be.

Junglebear: I take your point about the cloud. I think I would consider it cheating, depending on the finished result. I'll have a play with it and see how it comes out.

[PrimeTime]

I think the perspective of the 10mm lens has made a GRAND mountain look small. It looks like they could walk up the ridge to the right and be on top in an hour.

[swedg]

I see two separate worlds (3, counting the cloud, which I'd not remove unless the blue is really awesome), receding into distance from somewhat grubby & cluttered (& human) into mountain light & cleanness & ethereality. And beyond. The boulder in the foreground, echoed precisely by the peak in the background, points the direction. Onward and upward. Incredible composition. Did you do this knowingly?

[swedg]

Or maybe just a little break in the cloud, like the one over the other peak or suggested by the blue patch at the very top?

[fantasmic2tek]

Three words: WOW Nice Capture. I personally would not change a thing. I took some shots of mountains in Alaska this past summer. This is a great shot. Check out my mountain shots on my website.

[sk66]

Constructive criticism....
You are too far away from the "subject" at 10mm. The people and the tent are "lost". It's become a "pretty scenic" and doesn't tell a story. With an ultrawide you have to get CLOSE.

[dcclark]

Since others have covered this pretty well, I'll just mention that the people/tent are lost because of the rocks around them -- it's not their size, so much as where they are. They just blend in.

I do get a nice "sweeping panorama" feeling from the mountains, but it's not "grand and huge" as I imagine Everest is, in person.