Llyn Idwal

Fantastic image. The colors are magnificent and I like the composition a lot as well.

Very lovely photograph, Sebastian. Good colours, composition, and post processing. Good job :-)

Love the colors and the cool feeling. Beautiful scene.

Excellent technical  quality, great lighting and mood, superb all! Seven all the way!

Best regards Sebastian!

PDE

I agree with all the comments above. This is a terrific composition. I find some parts of the post-exposure work very distracting, however. Two things, really. The first is that the sky color looks a bit off to me, as it you had worked at warming the tone. The result seems too yellow for what I expect with such a dramatic overcast.

More significant is that the blending you must have done to bring in the sky has left a nearly-black outline along the mountain ridge. I've spent today working on a similar technical problem in blending two scanner exposures of a slide, and I think I've found a good way to get around this, assuming you're working with two exposures and Photoshop. Basically, you want to stack the exposures, lighter below darker, and make a mask on the darker one that can give a sufficiently subtle selection boundary.

Another PN member taught me a technique for this in which you select the most contrasty channel and duplicate it. The discussion was in a comment on this photo: http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=11745432.

There, Mark is talking about selective lightening of shadows,but I figured out today that you can use it to make a selection mask out of the high-key exposure, focus on the low-key one, and erase way the parts that you want to have higher tonality. The mask makes the boundary between the two virtually perfect.

Anyway, I hope you'll forgive my bluntness. It's unusual for an image to catch my ee from the forum thumbnails, and this one did. But then something wasn't quite right to me, and I had to think about why. You really do have an excellent image in there.

Wow.. great colors and a fine compo. 

Sebastian, this is eye-catching and dynamic. I like the light, the reflections and the contrast in this lovely well balenced composition. A perfect exposure. Very impressive.