Monsoon Reflections

Allen Maestas

New Mexico has been pounded by heavy monsoons this year. Here is a shot from this past weekend at McAllister Lake.

Al

ballentphoto

amgolds wrote:

New Mexico has been pounded by heavy monsoons this year. Here is a shot from this past weekend at McAllister Lake.

Al

Very cool shot. And welcome to Dgrin

digitalpins

the is a very cool shot..... very very cool, awesome and well done

Allen Maestas

ballentphoto wrote:

Very cool shot. And welcome to Dgrin

Thanks so much Michael:): I appreciate the warm welcome.

Al

Allen Maestas

digitalpins wrote:

the is a very cool shot..... very very cool, awesome and well done

Hi Ryan, thank you, glad you liked it.

Al

MSPhotography

Beautiful...

Allen Maestas

MSPhotography wrote:

Beautiful...

Thanks Mike !

mbz

Beautiful

longjiang

Have you used HDR?
Great shot!

I like the dramatic reflection on the lake, and the way its composition emphasizes it. Everything's in sharp focus. Nice alow around the cloud as well. Is this image generated from multiple exposures, or is it from a single snap? I'm really into HDR (high dynamic range) these days. HDR gives good effects, but sometimes it's really hard to align the source photos and creating a sharp image. (See my post "Trip around Vancouver" for some examples...) Can you give me some pointers on how to make HDRs well?

Jiang Long

Elaine

Well captured! Beautiful scene!

Elaine

kgarrett11

Very nice capture. Doesn't it feel great to see a sky with those kind of colors and then be able to capture it. Very well done.

Awais Yaqub

: Beautiful

Allen Maestas

mbz wrote:

Beautiful

Thank you!

Al

Allen Maestas

longjiang wrote:

Great shot!

I like the dramatic reflection on the lake, and the way its composition emphasizes it. Everything's in sharp focus. Nice alow around the cloud as well. Is this image generated from multiple exposures, or is it from a single snap? I'm really into HDR (high dynamic range) these days. HDR gives good effects, but sometimes it's really hard to align the source photos and creating a sharp image. (See my post "Trip around Vancouver" for some examples...) Can you give me some pointers on how to make HDRs well?

Jiang Long

Hi Jiang and thank you for the great comment. Yes, this is a HDR merge image. I used 3 bracketed shots and created 7 exposures out of them. There are lots of ways to do an HDR, but I like to manually enter EV in .5 increments, even if the exposures are 1 or 2 ev apart. HDR Merge does not usually work well with fast moving subjects or even slow subjects if the shutter speed is to slow. If it's windy and you have trees unless you want a blurry effect forget about HDR. If you have waves of water forget about HDR. Well, not totally forget because you can still manually create 3 or more different exposures from one shot which will help to get more Dynamic Range.

Al

Allen Maestas

kgarrett11 wrote:

Very nice capture. Doesn't it feel great to see a sky with those kind of colors and then be able to capture it. Very well done.

You bet it does! Thank you.

Al

retro

spectacular! :