A Magnificient Morning @ Moraine Lake

Clearing storm on the Wenkchemna peaks and Moraine Lake at Sunrise.

The contrast difference was extreme across different parts of the

scenery despite using a ND grad filter. Finally did some HDR

processing to get this result. Critiques/comments requested. Thanks

for your time!

Interesting colors, looks quite surrealistic to me. Wonderful blurring in the water. Composition is very nice. A pity that the image is only so small.

But what happened to the clouds? There are some artefacts ...

Kind regards, Alex

Magnificent scenery and light, but I can see why you would have been tempted to use HDR, it must have been difficult to obtain detail from some areas of the image, particularly the dark mountain to the far left. Although I like the image very much, I think it might improve even more with blending the HDR with a normally processed version, and perhaps only using the selective HDR where necessary. To summarise it is a fantastic image by any standard, but would benefit from being less surreal.  Just my thoughts of course.

Best Regards

Alf

Best regards Raghuveer!

PDE

This is a classic scene but yours is filled up with the wonderful cloulds, the morning light and the mirro-like reflection...  Love it.  learning.  Best Regards,

Thanks for the kind comments!

Alexander & Alf: Totally agree with what you say! It was truly breathtaking scenery that was quite difficult to capture on camera, mostly due to the extreme contrast differences in the bright peaks vs dark shadows. The HDR doesn't do justice to what I witnessed and the artifacts in the clouds and shadows are due to the HDR toning.

It still made for a stunning print though :-)