Morning twilight over Glacier National Park's Triple Falls. You can view a larger and updated version on a dark background at the Purchase Print link.
Sorry for the reposts (if you even noticed), I was trying to figure out why shadows were crushed in the browser but not in PS, and it turns out the checkbox to embed color profiles had gotten turned off. Silly checkbox - I didn't tell it that it could be off!
Nikon D7000, Nikkor 12-24mm
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20 commentsMarc, surreal was indeed the intent. I've got a more natural dawn/sunrise take on Triple Falls as well, but I wanted the twilight one to be different than anything I'd seen from here. Part of the overall artificial feel of the image, I feel, is the milky water atop the rocks - I wish I'd had a polarizer at the scene.
The exposures are as follows (focal lengths given in 35mm equivalents):
Landscape: 18mm, f/11, ISO 100, 1 sec
Sky: 18mm, f/11, ISO 100, 1/5 sec
Moon: 105mm, f/9, ISO 100, 0.5 sec, downsized to about as small as a 50mm equivalent shot
Stars (about 1/2 hour before the rest): 18mm, ISO 1600, f/4, 30 sec
I waited until closer to dawn for the landscape exposure in order to retain some texture in the waterfalls, but I probably should have done a longer exposure earlier to use to smooth out the ripples in the water below.
The moon was in fact right there in the sky, I just forgot to account for the dark side of it when replacing it with the larger one, since the dark side wasn't even visible in that exposure. Good catch, Michael - a fixed version is available below and at the Purchase Print link.
The later sunrise version of this scene that I posted last year has the same discussion on justification for the moon, but I'll echo it here: I saw it at least that big with my naked eye, and wanted to convey it as a compositional element rather than a speck comparable to a star, particularly in the web version.
Gary.
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