Walkers Paradise: Arvenbüel near Amden Switzerland

Mountain air, great light, autumn color!

HP30 PRO tour near Amden above the famous Swiss lake the Wallensee.

Check out this post for the trek, travel info, photo notes and more!

©Wanderland Switzerland

This 3D view of the Wallensee area shows the route in red. It is an up, down walk with about 200 meters, that's 650 feet elevation change. In Arvenbüel there is a lot of parking. If the lower lots are full, try the upper, often the upper smaller lot has a few spaces.

©Wanderland Switzerland

A closer in map view shows the route. We toured clockwise. the whole tour takes about 2 hours and is seven kilometers long. Going up is a wide-open road trail, suitable for families, the route back down is a small wooded trail and steep in places, hiking shoes are a must for this section.

Arvenbüel itself has both great parking as well as fantastic public transit options. from the Ziegelbrücke train station catch the #650 bus. Ride it to the last stop. Buses run every 30 mins from the station.

View of the resort village just after the start of the route. the poles by the road are for navigation once the snow starts to fall. Which should be soon! This shot with P30 PRO was almost directly into the sun. I use my palm held horizontal with the phone to act as a sunshade. Otherwise, you would see a ray or two.

For all these images I used google photo's to process the images. I modify the exposure, shadows, blacks and push up the 'deep blue' plus the 'skin tones' to highlight the autumn colors in the scenes.

Cropping down a 1:1 camera image creates a great 'Panorama' type shot, you can go even wider than 16:9 and still not letterbox on the latest phones.

In this shot, into the sun with a cloud full of bright clouds, I use the advanced mode on my P30 to adjust the white balance down to keep contrast in the sky, while still giving shadows on the building detail. Post-process you can turn the exposure right down and adjust whites, highlights, shadows, and blacks individually to get just the perfect contrast balance.

One of the great things about Switzerland in the mountains on a Sunday is the huge popularity of getting outdoors. So often small mountain restaurants like this are filled with people. And oh so often the food is so good!

The H.P30 PRO has a great 5x lens that lets you get right in on your subjects. I end up using the 5X more than the macro setting for the great flat field effect the lens produces. coupled with some edge darkening in post-process the rich field result is detailed and dynamic.

The same approach above with some mushrooms.

The H.P30 PRO wide-field camera surprisingly gives great shots without a lot of lens curves at the edges. It also produces a fantastic flat field from foreground to back also producing a great 'rich field' effect.