First Light

[dankearl]

Wallow Lake, NE Oregon

iso100, 20mm, f11, 8 sec, D800

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[Rachel Hollander]

Hi Dan - lovely sunrise colors and I like the reflected colors too. If it were mine I would lighten everything but the sky bringing out a bit more detail in the trees on the hills and in the fg rocks. I would also crop to more of a pano. I did this very quickly. Obviously working from the raw would be better.

TFS,
Rachel

[Don Lacy]

Hi Dan, Nice image I like the pano crop from Rachael but would not lighten the shadows anymore its looks un natural to have the far hill the same tonality as the sky. Also I would prefer a little more space around the rocks in the bottom of the frame .

[Dvir Barkay]

Agree with Don that making it lighter would make things look a tad funny. Maybe just a tad lighter on the right hand side. Agree about more space around the rocks.

[dankearl]

Thanks for the comments and thanks to Rachel for the repost.

[Don Railton]

All been said Dan but I agree with the "tight on the bottom" comment mainly..

[Andrew McLachlan]

Hi Dan...a very nice scene...Rachel took the words right out of my mouth...go with a pano crop...I might even come down a bit more with the crop to just above the main cloud.

[Jonathan Ashton]

I would concur with the pano and also I think the water is not quite level. It really does look a beautiful place.