Storm Energy

Mysterious light amidst thunderstorm skies over Oregon's Crater Lake

and Wizard Island at twilight. Thank you for looking. I'd be happy to

discuss the image as my time allows.

Beautiful image! I would love to know what values you used to capture the light and the forground at the same time?

All you really need are graduated ND filters. You can then fine tune the image by dodge/burning or similar techniques. You could also take multiple exposures and blend them together, but that would be too time consuming for an image like this which is easily balanced by using a grad 2-stops darker on the top half.

Very powerful image. But that scene looks so interesting for me, that my attention is not particulary drawed to the sky (title). Even though it looks great, too. a s l a

A dramatic colors and light.Foreground with highlights is wonderful and also mysterious light in the background.I'd like to have right edge of the lake in the composition but it'd miss main left part of the foreground.You have selected best composition with this difficult situation.

The light is wonderful. Congrats.

An amazing picture!

Lights and colors are wonderful. The 5D works very vell with 17-40F4.

Congrats.

Using a grad is nearly instant, and getting accurate results can often be easier. I definitely don't believe a merge could actually save you time for this image. I've used both processes extensively. But merging shots is easy too, if you know what you're doing. However, sometimes merging more than 2 images is necessary. Sometimes, merging dosen't even work at all, for example, if wind, water action or anything else is moving in the images between exposures. And of course, you need to have a very good eye for exposure to obtain cohesive results. Grads have problems too, like with complicated horizons. There's a time and a place when either method is better than the other.

Great work !!

Excellent!!!!

Hi Marc, when I saw this shot I immediately went to your full portfolio to see if there was a vertical version. I can understand the desire to show the context of as much of the lake as possible, but for me all of the great light is in the middle half of the image. I would also imagine that there was some great light higher up off of the clouds and off of the foreground rocks (I love the pink on those.) A vertical format would eliminate the very slightly distracting bush and snow patch also.

 

Just a thought over and above the usual superlatives!

This one deserves a few oohs, a lot of ahhs and a bravo to top it off. Love your work. You're colse to being the Ansel Adams of landscapes in color. Best regards, rek. Been trying to get a graduated neutral density since January. What kind do you use and what strength.

Amazing As Always.

Incredible mood created in this composition. Best Regards

I notice the difference in mood you have captured in this one. I often see areas that you have photographed in there most "beautiful" state but this one seems to tell a little more of a story. Possibly my favorite of yours to date. My question is that do you visit most of the areas you photograph in all the seasons and how long would you stay to ensure you get the great light. Do you wait until you have what you want or do you set a certain time aside before heading off? I bet you watch the weather fronts closely for that light. Nonetheless, You put in hard work plus have a brilliant understanding for light and composition and the results show.