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Thanks a lot everyone, I appreciate it.
Justin Grimm wrote:
One of my favourites of yours man. Is this a pano or a crop? And are you going to print it the size of your wall soon? 
It's a crop. I think sometimes I get lazy with the D800, because it's so easy to just crop the file and still come away with tons of resolution. I also had a killer cloud formation that was way up in the sky, it was completely blowing up with light. I really wanted to incorporate that into the shot, but realized when I was processing the image that I was forcing it too much (I had way to much empty sky between the mountains and cloud). When I cropped it, the image flowed much better to me. If I could do it again, I would've fired off some tighter shots to stitch together for a pano, but oh well, you live and learn.
This is going on our wall actually. Next step is figuring out how large I can go.
gdanmitchell wrote:
A lovely scene. I wonder if you considered raising the luminosity in the shadowed area?
Dan
Battling the luminosity in the shadows was the most time consuming aspect of this shot to be honest. The image is intended to be dark, but I didn't want to crush the shadows. It's extremely hard to process a dark image, while maintaining contrast and keeping the shadows in check. Also, viewing this on a dark background helps substantially.
So, to answer your question, I did lighten the shadows to make them less harsh, but any more and I would lose the feel I want the shot to portray.
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