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The Lady At Mirror Lake
The Lady At Mirror Lake
TommyMoe21


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Best of 2014 (Advanced Editing VII)
Camera: Canon EOS-7D
Lens: Canon EF-S 10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 USM
Location: Mirror lake in Yosemite NP
Date: Jun 6, 2014
Aperture: 22.0
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/30
Date Uploaded: Jan 12, 2015

Mirror Lake in Yosemite. That's my wife down there. Shot in RAW. From LR5, run through HDR Efex Pro2 as a one shot HRD. Back in LR, slight color enhancements and sharpening. Then in PSCS6 converted to jpg, cropped and resized for here.

Statistics
Place: 92 out of 218
Avg (all users): 5.9917
Avg (commenters): 6.6667
Avg (participants): 5.9714
Avg (non-participants): 6.1250
Views since voting: 223
Views during voting: 211
Votes: 121
Comments: 4
Favorites: 0


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08/19/2015 09:21:28 AM
*Hello from Sid and the Critique Club*

A pleasing landscape that is assumed to meet the challenge

A lovely location that has been enhanced by your thoughtful inclusion of your wife in the scene. Her inclusion gives us a good strong focal point and also gives us a sense of scale of the grandeur of the location. I like the skies a lot.

Your composition and exposure are generally good, the reflections are a welcome addition. Technically your settings are good, nice low ISO and I assume a good tripod for support. You have achieved a huge DOF through your choice of a small aperture though if this actually the smallest aperture I would generally avoid it in the interests of best image quality.

Like your commenter I am not keen on HDR treatment, the colours are a little too saturated for me, I prefer more subtlety and a more natural looking result though having said that your image is a lot better than many I have seen using this technique.

Thanks for your submission, Sid
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
01/21/2015 01:35:45 PM
Nice
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01/18/2015 09:15:50 PM
Not crazy about the HDR but I like the softness and cool greens.
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01/16/2015 10:53:45 PM
I think I might have liked the photo just a bit better w/o the "lady", I hope I didn't just offend your wife. Beautiful landscape of one of the most beautiful places on the planet!
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