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On the first morning I caught some predawn color in the sky and a magenta cast on the mountain.

Not liking the composition, I switched to vertical for the light show a few minutes later.

That day I walked around the entire lake looking for a better horizontal composition and found the third shot on the second morning.

Edited to remove the first two images. I think they detract from the main subject here which is the last (now the only image). They told a story about searching for a composition, but my main intention was to show what is perhaps one of the top 3 images I have.

I work for prints and that one is already printed as shown here but of course much much larger. There is nothing I would do to change it for print, perhaps it needs changes for web display. Be glad to hear if that is the case. I sometimes think my processing for print hurts my web presentation.

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Aug 04, 2013 at 08:00 AM

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Sorry Ben, but you have over HDRéd these shots. They are all nice compositions and will look much better with a more natural post processing. (just my 2 cents)

Aug 04, 2013 at 08:41 AM

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helenica wrote:
Sorry Ben, but you have over HDRéd these shots. They are all nice compositions and will look much better with a more natural post processing. (just my 2 cents)

Wow, I didn't HDR at all, they are all single exposures normally processed with just a taste of Topaz.

Aug 04, 2013 at 11:07 AM

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p.1 #4 · p.1 #4 · Mirror Lake Ut in the Uintas

Hey Ben,

These don't look HDR to me. #3 is my favorite here, it looks like you found a really great composition with a bit of walking. With #1 the magenta in the clouds looks great, but the mountain and trees themselves seem to have too much of a magenta cast. Perhaps mask out the sky and reflectiion of the sky and pull back the magenta in the rest of it?

Jim

Aug 04, 2013 at 12:06 PM

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p.1 #5 · p.1 #5 · Mirror Lake Ut in the Uintas

Spot on Ben!!!! Very nice indeed

Aug 04, 2013 at 12:07 PM

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JimFox wrote:
Hey Ben,

These don't look HDR to me. #3 is my favorite here, it looks like you found a really great composition with a bit of walking. With #1 the magenta in the clouds looks great, but the mountain and trees themselves seem to have too much of a magenta cast. Perhaps mask out the sky and reflectiion of the sky and pull back the magenta in the rest of it?

Jim

Thanks Jim, actually I have pulled back the magenta it was really strong. But as you see I took that image down. I did not really like the comp, looked like a bead on a fat string

The walking around was part of my purpose for showing the first two.

The second image was ok but I really wanted to showcase the last. Perhaps I showed too many images. We will see how the repost goes.

Aug 04, 2013 at 12:15 PM

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p.1 #7 · p.1 #7 · Mirror Lake Ut in the Uintas

The one you decided to leave, is my favorite. The other two are not bad at all but the last one has a stronger composition with the vegetation in the foreground. This is a print worthy shot apart from tweaking the color balance.
Harsha

Aug 04, 2013 at 12:32 PM

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harshaj1 wrote:
The one you decided to leave, is my favorite. The other two are not bad at all but the last one has a stronger composition with the vegetation in the foreground. This is a print worthy shot apart from tweaking the color balance.
Harsha

Thanks Harsha.

Aug 04, 2013 at 12:56 PM

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NoLight wrote:
Spot on Ben!!!! Very nice indeed

Thanks, much appreciated.

Aug 04, 2013 at 12:56 PM

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p.1 #10 · p.1 #10 · Mirror Lake Ut in the Uintas

Ben, you can't take these away once you put them out!
No fair!!

Aug 04, 2013 at 01:01 PM

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p.1 #11 · p.1 #11 · Mirror Lake Ut in the Uintas

Wall hanger for sure... Nice work Ben.

If you can get the top of Mtn less saturated, I think it would be more realistic.

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Aug 04, 2013 at 01:27 PM

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p.1 #12 · p.1 #12 · Mirror Lake Ut in the Uintas

Sweet !!!!

Todd

Aug 04, 2013 at 01:32 PM

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p.1 #13 · p.1 #13 · Mirror Lake Ut in the Uintas

ben egbert wrote:
On the first morning I caught some predawn color in the sky and a magenta cast on the mountain.

Not liking the composition, I switched to vertical for the light show a few minutes later.

That day I walked around the entire lake looking for a better horizontal composition and found the third shot on the second morning.

Edited to remove the first two images. I think they detract from the main subject here which is the last (now the only image). They told a story about searching for a composition, but my main intention was to show what is perhaps...Show more →

The lighting and comp look really awesome, although the HDR looks JUST a trace too much IMO (at least for screen). But a superb image.

Yeah sometimes processing for print does have to be a little bit different though. I usually process for screen and then if I decide to make a print go back and redo things to optimize for print.

Aug 04, 2013 at 02:47 PM

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p.1 #14 · p.1 #14 · Mirror Lake Ut in the Uintas

Beautiful scene. FWIW - it looks natural on my uncalibrated TFT screen, but when I swap it over to my i1 calibrated Dell 2410 monitor, it starts going towards the nuclear side with a strong magenta cast on the mountain. Just one of those things I guess.

Aug 04, 2013 at 03:56 PM

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p.1 #15 · p.1 #15 · Mirror Lake Ut in the Uintas

Thanks all for your kind comments. It seems this still presents too saturated, but it was really bright. The lake is at 10,050, the air very clear the mountain is very close and very bald. My raw files show a very bright orange with darker trees. All I did was add my standard saturation and shadow recover methods.

Since I have a non sRGB monitor, WEB colors are hard to judge.

Aug 04, 2013 at 03:57 PM

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p.1 #16 · p.1 #16 · Mirror Lake Ut in the Uintas

Beautiful shot Ben. On my monitor it doesn't look over saturated at all. Nice work on balancing the lights and shadows.
Good comp with the mountain a little offcenter left, and the foreground breaking up right where the reflection comes down.

Kelly

Aug 04, 2013 at 05:56 PM

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p.1 #17 · p.1 #17 · Mirror Lake Ut in the Uintas

Thanks Kelly. For those who know Mirror Lake, it is very hard to get a good composition here. This one inlet was the only place that breaks up the absolute symmetry of the rest of the lake. At least as far as I was able to find.

Aug 04, 2013 at 07:24 PM

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p.1 #18 · p.1 #18 · Mirror Lake Ut in the Uintas

Ben:
On my monitor the greens on the lake border are maybe just a tad over-saturated but very close. Overall I think its a beautiful photograph. I think its a thin line between the color contrasts that really make the photo pop and possible over-saturation. I would put it on my wall.

Aug 04, 2013 at 07:42 PM

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p.1 #19 · p.1 #19 · Mirror Lake Ut in the Uintas

Umm, I came back for a second look , this time on my laptop, and it has a IPS screen, and well, it shows the top of the Mtn just as I asked previously with a tad less saturation.. So it will depend on what monitor your viewing, calibration, etc, etc. Overall I think you did a good job for viewing on the web.

As Bob just mentioned, its a fine line, and the fact you have printed it and are happy with the results, is all that matters.

Once again, great job Ben.

Aug 04, 2013 at 08:13 PM

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p.1 #20 · p.1 #20 · Mirror Lake Ut in the Uintas

Thanks for the critical looks IndyFab and UgashikBob. It is a fine line and its hard to make web stuff that looks good everywhere. I did have trouble with the greens and desaturated once. They print well enough because most stuff is a tad darker in print.

Aug 04, 2013 at 08:20 PM

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