Here is the readers digest version of the events leading up to the shot:
Flew into Seattle on Thursday and drove directly to Trillium Lake. Weather man was saying that the next week was all about rain (and he wasn't lying). So I knew I had a short window to catch this shot. Took some sunset photos on Thursday with a very clear sky but the weather was great. Decided to stay the night and catch sunrise. Pulled into a camp site and prepared the bed in the back of the jeep. Jeans, jacket, makeshift pillow out of some cloths and I thought I was good to go. About 11pm it got cold, so out of the suitcase came shirts, sweats pretty much anything I could and started covering myself up with cloths to keep myself warm. Needless to say I made it through the night with the help of cloths all over me and every once in a while starting up the Jeep for the heater.
Got out to the lake just before sunrise and started shooting for the next hour or so. What a great scene. This is an HDR but this is the actual scene. Didn't have to do to much to it besides a little contrast work. What a great reflection.
The Shot:
>Standard 3 Shot HDR +2, 0, -2, ISO 250, F/11, 24-105L @24mm, Tripod and cable shutter release.
Post Processing:
>ACR
>Removed All Sharpening, Removed Black, Added Noise Reduction, Removed Chromatic Abberration
>Saved as Tiffs
Photomatix:
>Detail Enhancer
>Strength 100%
>Color Saturation 90%
>Smoothing (Slider @8.0)
>Luminosity 3.10
>White Point 1.195
>Black Point 0.335
>Microsmoothing 2.0
>Microcontrast 6.0
>Saved as 16 Bit Tiff
Post Processing CS-5
>Topaz Adjust-Color and Detail Enhancement
>Topaz InFocus-Global Sharpening
>Color efex Pro 3.0
>Tonal Contrast (Lowered Opacity to 62%)
>Cloning to remove dust and spots
>High pass sharpening
>Cropped, Framed and Sized for posting
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