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Clouds over Red Eagle
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Clouds over Red Eagle

by Jonathan Heywood

Gallery: LandscapePosted August 19, 201198 views4 comments
Here is an image from St. Mary Lake in Glacier National Park a week and a half ago. I had scouted some compositions earlier in the day, but it turns out they were all facing away from this evening's cloud cover, thus I scrambled around in an attempt to find an alternative. I realize it is not the most gripping composition, but it brings back memories of a peaceful, if rather breezy, evening. All comments and critiques welcome and appreciated. Please view large.

5D MKII
ISO 100
f/22
Two image blend for dynamic range, 1.3s and 3.2s.

Comments

4 comments
Comment posted by Brian Schrayer on August 19, 2011 at 9:20 PM
You definitely captured some beautiful color in the sky and the composition of the mountain compliments the scene nicely. I would like to see less of the foreground lake and much more of the sky, but I think this is still an excellent shot as is. In fact, if this were mine I might consider a crop from the bottom about half way up the lake as this would place even more emphasis on the sky. Thanks for sharing!!
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Comment posted by Tony Kuyper on August 19, 2011 at 9:36 PM
Nice cloud and light. Did that red up with sunset? Bottom portion of the frame feels a bit dark.
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Comment posted by Barbara Graham on August 19, 2011 at 10:22 PM
Wonderful cloud formation. It might be worth just checking what you get if you lighten the lake just a bit.
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Comment posted by Lon Overacker on August 20, 2011 at 5:45 PM
Jonathan,

Fabulous and pretty dramatic sky. I would have to agree with the other comments about brightening up the lake and landscape in general. It's really as if the camera just made the exposure selection and compensated for the big and bright sky, thus darkening the rest of the image. But I see you mentioned a blend, so I would just take the blend a little further and bring back some luminosity back to the non-sky portions of the scene. I think you'll have a keeper at that point.

Lon
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