Painted Sky

Gallery: LandscapePosted October 24, 2011192 views11 comments

I was in the Eastern Sierras of California a couple weeks ago teaching my Fall Colors workshop and while the Aspens were a few weeks behind this year with their color display the skies above Mono Lake but on quite a show.

Technical Info

1" @ f/11
Nikon D7000
Nikon 18-200mm VRII
Polarizer

Comments

11 comments

Comment posted by Koveh Tavakkol on October 24, 2011 at 3:23 PM

Quite the light show indeed. Looks great to me.

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Comment posted by Danny Laureys on October 24, 2011 at 4:19 PM

Very nice!!!! Excellent shot, color is great.

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Comment posted by Luis Argerich on October 24, 2011 at 6:20 PM

Very nice scene, great sky and peaceful composition. I like it a lot.
I think a crop from the sky making it more panoramic can make it better and to my brain it feels a little tilted to the right.

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Comment posted by Edward Mendes on October 24, 2011 at 8:50 PM

Funny you should mention a pano crop Luis as I went back and forth between the full frame and a panoramic for some time before finally deciding on this. In the end I had to ask myself what drew me to the scene in the first place and what do I see as the subject of the image? For me it was the sky so I went with the full frame image.

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Comment posted by Tony Kuyper on October 24, 2011 at 9:19 PM

Beautiful light and presentation. Welcome!

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Comment posted by Mark Seaver on October 24, 2011 at 10:41 PM

Beautiful sky with just enough Mono Lake to make it really interesting.

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Comment posted by Anil Rao on October 25, 2011 at 3:55 AM

Love your gentle handling of this subject matter. Very nice!

Its great to see you posting here, Edward.

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Comment posted by Harry Lichtman on October 25, 2011 at 9:18 AM

Love the pastel colors. Maybe too much sky, a little more reflection might balance the image. Maybe I'm being too picky! Looks like a few contrails have been feathered by the winds, not much you can do about that though.

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Comment posted by Dale King on October 25, 2011 at 10:16 AM

While a crop from the top to create a pano would no doubt give you a successful image, I think the big sky enhances the feel of spaciousness here. Very serene image with beautiful light.

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Comment posted by Nick Bristol on October 25, 2011 at 10:57 AM

Beautiful scene Edward. I love the pastel colors. This is really nice as is and I also like the pano crop idea with less sky.
Welcome to NPN. Wonderful first post!

Nick Bristol
Lone Rock, WI

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Comment posted by Pramod Viswanath on October 25, 2011 at 11:51 AM

Really fabulous image Edward. Just love everything about the composition!!

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