Thursday, August 4, 2011

Working a Scene, Part 2

When I find a nice scene I usually try to photograph it in a variety of light.  I came upon this location several weeks ago and made the first image you see here.  It's a nice capture with an interesting sky and nice color, but I wanted to capture the scene at sunrise.  I had my opportunity this past weekend and ended up with the image you see here.  It was by pure chance that I happened upon this scene the few days of the year that the sun lines up so perfectly with the stream.  Two versions of the same scene, each with completely different moods.  For the first image I used a 3-stop graduated ND filter, the bottom is an HDR image.