Moraine Lake at sunrise

Some more photos from my Canadian vacation

Nice photo, is this processed HDR? or is it all the polorizer?

Thanks for commenting Nik. I used both. I always use a polarizer around water. For this series of shots instead of a grad filter I used bracketing( +2,0,-2) and photomatix to combine.

Paul, this is wonderful. Great HDR. The canoes to the side really add an interesting color palette. Nice work.

Nice scene!

Nice work!

First, this is a wonderful place to vacation. You have captured some terrific light and reflections here. Did you camp out in the car to get this? I personally think the canoes and pier detract from the image by creating clutter. I am also bothered by what looks like four different images of the lake reflection. I'm not being negatively critical, just think the effort for a great sunrise would be more dramatically and emotionally captured with a more simplistic image. Nice job!

I like that you've included the boulders in front and multi-colored boats. To my eye, it doesn't look cluttered.......but it is definitely not the pristine simple photo of Moraine Lake we're used to seeing. I've never done an HDR myself, so I'm not an expert, but to my eye you've done a great job with this. And extra brownie (or boy scout) points for getting up so early! My daughter married a Canadian and lives in Calgary now, so fortunately we'll get to visit this place many times in the future.