In August-September last year I visited the United States and walked the John Muir Trial with a Canon 7D and three lenses. After coming back with quite a large number of photos it has taken me some time to get them sorted. I thought I might put some up on here for comments. This one was taken from Lower Cathedral Lake in Yosemite National Park in the early morning (7:37 am). The sun was rising behind Cathedral Peak, making a sunstar effect. Details are;
Canon 7D
EF-S 18-200 mm lens
Focal Length 18 mm
1/640 sec at f9.0
No Tripod, too heavy for 200 plus miles of walking.
Hi Chris, pleasing scene with a nice starburst peeking over the mountains. The exposure seems to be handled well with detail in both the sunlit and shaded areas. A few things...I would have not included the clipped shoreline on the LL and I would of tried to offset the rock a bit further. Finally, the trees look a bit oversaturated...
Hey Chris,
Agree with Dave's assesment.......although I'd imagine the trees were a bit dark given the SS. I'm surprised you got that good of a sunburst at f9.....I like where you placed it. Did you happen to try a 2 exposure blend......say one at this exposure for the lit areas and one at say f16 and 1/200 sec.? Plenty of SS for hand holding and it may allowed you to blend the 2 exposures a bit more easily and with more natural results. Just an option to keep in mind for next time out! That was some trek!
Thanks for the comments. The saturation seemed to come in when downsizing it in photoshop, as it does not seem to be there in lightroom. I will take better care of that in future, thank for the advise here. I may try Roman's suggestion of blending two images.