Castleburn Lake (Vertorama)

[Morkel Erasmus]

I am still (slowly) working through some images taken in February in the southern Drakensberg region of South Africa. This is a view of the Castleburn lake one morning as the clouds really started to shape up. I used a circular polariser here to get some nice punch in the sky.

I captured and processed this as a "Vertorama" - two landscape oriented shots stacked on top of each other to form a more vertical/portrait orientation. Full resolution is about 7146x6599 pixels making a whopping 47.1 megapixel frame.

Techs:
Nikon D800
Nikkor 24-70mm f2.8
Kenko Pro CPL
f8.0 | 1/200 SS | ISO-320
handheld

[Don Railton]

Hi Morkel

Love that sky, but I think I would prune about an inch of the bottom of this as the lake in the immediate foreground as it does not have enough appeal for me for inclusion. The reflection is too broken up.. Now if you had set up a tripod and extended your exposure out to a couple of seconds (using a 10 stop ND) then that might be a lot different...

DON

[Morkel Erasmus]

Thanks Don.
I was contemplating a crop from the bottom but decided against it.
It would help if I owned a 10-stop ND...time to get one I suppose :w3

[Don Railton]

Yep.. me too.. Good set of filters is on top of the list.

[John Ippolito]

Lovely job on this, Morkel. brilliant idea on the stacked landscape frames. Love the big sky over the Drakensburg.

[Rachel Hollander]

Morkel - I love this. A very tranquil scene and I disagree with Don on this one, I think the reflection works and adds to the scene.

TFS,
Rachel