Making the Best of One's Conditions

[Michael Pancier]

I drove nearly 90 minutes on Sunday to try a sunrise shot at Nine Mile Pond in the Everglades. The conditions deteriorated as I arrived and clouds rolled in giving me a lackluster sunrise.

I did manage this dawn shot which I was able to work with.

5d Mark II
17-40 @ 19mm
f/16
3d Grad Filter
25 second exposure
ISO 200

I'm thinking of cropping more from the right.

[Dave Mills]

Hi Michael, Sorry to hear you made that long drive and it didn't work out to expectations. Can't remember haw many times that happened to me. I did a few things to the image. I cropped a bit off the bottom and the right side and then applied a small amount of S/H to bring the sky up and show more detail all around....

[Michael Pancier]

Thanks Dave, I think that definitely improves the image. Wasn't a total loss, I met up with al and fabs and jackie and had fun photographing osprey.

[Roman Kurywczak]

Hey Michael,
Dave's repost is an improvement and helps the image overall. It's nice to see you got together with Fabs and Jackie too!.....must have been a blast!

[Kobus Tollig]

REally nice one here well done. Dave's version really looks good

[Morkel Erasmus]

beautiful simplicity! Dave's repost has improved it. don't we all sometimes drive for hours only to be thwarted by the weather...:(