Gaylor Lake Sunrise

First of all thanks to all of you who pointed out my obvious error

yesterday. This is a blended image (one exposed for the sky and the

another for the foreground) of an image that I previously posted as an

HDR ( the HDR is in this same folder on my site). The HDR seems to

have a "harder" look to me and not as natural. It may be do to the

fact that I haven't really done enough HDRs or that I'm not very good

at it. I would really appreciate your opinions.

I didn't see it yesterday but what I see now is astounding. beautiful HDR, very carefully executed postwork. perfect compostition - with clear foreground and lovely sky. bravo!

Beautiful landscape, the purple flowers are the perfect touch. Sky looks a bit unnatural, but very dramatic.

I remember the other one and this one looks much better! I am not a big fan of HDR. You have to use it very sparingly to compliment hand blending IMO. You have hit the nail on the head.... the HDR images that people use the HDR to blend look more unnatural. It's great for art if people like that but it's not usually my preference and gets away from it looking like a real nice photo. I still hand blend my images as needed. Nice work Leo!

perfect excellent image beautiful colors congrats

This is a hand blended image! I must not have been very clear in my explanation. This was blended from two exposures; one for the sky and one for the foreground. The HDR image can be found in the same folder on my site but I will attach it here.

Amazing! Beautiful light, colors and composition. 7/7a. Best regards.

Awesome. Simply Awesome! Kudos for a wonderful capture and some really cool Post. Oh, I also like the fact that this and you are the #1 photo and photographer on PN the past 24 hours. Really cool. 7/7's across the board and 3 really big wooos...Lefty

Thats the way to do it Leo! Very effective 7/7. Regards, Tony.

Beautifully sublime even dreamily melancholic.

Leo, this is terrific. I also like the HDR version. I do believe that with the appropriate HDR tweaks it might be better than this (better than perfect? hmmm...) Cheers, J

Very beautiful and well thought-of-shot. Everything seems to be put on the right place for a reason, e.g. the stones in the foreground, the small purple flowers that compliment the almost violet part of the sky on the left.

Excellent landscape!

Thanks to all of you who took the time to comment on this image. I appreciate it very much!

Pretty great...it's transcended the ordinary photo into that vaunted realm of...art.

Beautiful light, colors and composition. 7/7

nice comosition and use of light. I love it.

looks heavenly

Let's see. Beautiful colors, Great composition. Fantastic elements. Great processing. And just a wonderful place to want to be.

 

7/7.

It was a long hard hike but well worth the effort.