This is the southern Andes Range of mountains in Argentinian Patagonia showing the famous 11,171 foot peak, Mt. Fitzroy (named after the captain of the HMS Beagle, the ship on which Charles Darwin sailed to South America in 1835). I don't shoot many road photographs, but this one is particularly dramatic. I used an 84mm focal length on a 24-105mm lens to create a small amount of compression, and the settings were 1/800, /8, and 400 ISO. Had I used a wide angle to exaggerate the length of the road, the mountains would have appeared too small in the frame. The resulting image wouldn't have been nearly as impactful. That's one of the disadvantages with wide angle lenses when doing landscape photography.
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