June Lake HDR

[Kerry Perkins]

This was my first go at an HDR. This is June Lake, a very nice spot in the Sierras. Three images used with plus and minus one stop.

400D, EF-S18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 @ 33mm
AE mode f/11@1/125 for middle exposure ISO 200

[Gus Cobos]

Hi Kerry,
This is a beautiful image. It's a tad under exposed...you still have allot of details that need to come to the surface in the mid-tones...The next time you are doing an HDR image, instead of doing three exposures, do five...two on the minus side, one at zero and two on the plus side...looking forward to your next one...:cool:

[Dave Mills]

Hi Kerry
I took the liberty to crop the image and used levels to bring up some of the detail. You have a nice comp with a good foreground and I like the early light on the mountains...

[Kerry Perkins]

Thanks for the repost Dave. Definitely made the image better.

[Julie Kenward]

Beautiful image and nice composition, Kerry. Personally, I think it's just a little on the cool shade - the grass seems to almost have a bit of a blue tint to it - you might try color balancing it back a bit towards the warm side just to see if that doesn't even it out a bit.

[denise ippolito]

Kerry, Very nice composition and the location is outstanding! Love that area!! I like the color of water in the orig. post but like how Dave brought up the details! Nicely done!!