Fire Above the Cordillera Negra

This is pretty spectacular Harry. Great comp and outstanding work with your exposure. Make sure and post this for ratings and critique!

A colorful sky above Peru's Cordellera Negra, reflected in an alpine

tarn. While it appears to be flat, the elevation is about 15,345 ft. and a

lon and steep uphill climb to this point. A huge valley separates the

Codillera Negra (Black Range) with the area that most of my trekking

was in- Codillera Blanca - (White Range). COmments welcome.

Nice shot. and good control of the wide dynamic range. Looks like you were able to take a single shot and that is good - I might have been tempted to go with a 5 shot auto bracket on my D300 - may have given some more color to the reflection in the water when processed. If this is close to what you saw, then it was a good decision to stick with the single shot.

Exposure is great. Nice color in the sky and still shadow detail in foreground.

Great use of the grad ND filter.

Thanks for the comments. Tony- I had taken 2 shots, one for highlights and one for shadows, figuring I would need to combine them for the final image. After looking at the 2 images, I found that I liked the image I had taken for the highlights and was hable to pull out shadow detail enough for my taste. I hesitate to add too much color to the reflection for fear it might approach a bit unrealistic. Thanks again for your thoughts.

 

Harry

Very nice photo. The colors are very nice and you have enough lighting to make an interesting foreground.