Half Dome in twilight

[arash_hazeghi]

Yosemite in early winter 2007

http://www.stanford.edu/~ahazeghi/Photos/photonet/6859023-lg.jpg

Canon 40D + 70-200 f/4 IS

[Ramesh Adkoli]

Arash, I like that golden glow on top of the dome. Somehow, low contrast and pale, detailless sky are taking away some punch from the image, IMO. TFS.

regards,
ramesh

[Roman Kurywczak]

Hi Arash,
I have many similar images of half dome and I will say that I do feel like Ramesh does about them.......I prefer it lit a bit more or even less where just the top rim gets lit. You did well with the exposure and have detail throughout the shadow areas and I even like the way you framed Half Dome, minimizing the sky......maybe a bit of clouds would have helped but you did the best you could under the conditions given.....we can't always have the clouds we want!

[Morkel Erasmus]

I like the light and details but agree with Ramesh and Roman it could pop more.
you could still work with this some in PP and it will shine...

[Rich Ikerd]

Beautiful colors on the rock Arash and the detail is well captured. You might try a selective curves or multiply layer on the sky to see if you can darken it up a bit. Agree with Roman that clouds would have helped but they are seldom around when you need them.