It's a bit crazy to me to think that about 2 hours before this photograph--we were having torrential rain and pea sized hail. It's getting to be that time of year again. We had another truly lovely day. Temps in the low 70's. Yes we did get some rain, but it was pretty beautiful out nonetheless.
Once again, I was drawn into the temptation of a lake photograph. I took this shot at about 6:45--so it wasn't quite to that glory hour of sun, but it was getting there. The lake was extremely calm. It turned out quite well in this picture--you can see the casual ripples of the lake. The mirroring was pretty good as well.
I did do a fair bit in post processing, fixing some spots (more on that later) as well as toning down the sky a bit to make it look a little bit more blue and not quite so white.
Exposure Information
1/30 sec, f/11, ISO 100, 11mm (shot hand held)
This is a bit of an aside--when I was out on vacation, I noticed in my HDR pictures of the Grand Canyon, that I was having some very spotty issues. When I went back through my individual photographs--I noticed. I use a Hoya Pro1 Digital UV Filter on my camera. I'm painstakingly careful with my lenses--there really should never be a reason why my lenses get dirty--perhaps the filter. As it turns out, this Hoya filter is a real pain in the ass to get clean. I'm not sure what I'm going to do with it. Anyways--I had these spots showing up again on my screen. This time I used Lightroom's spot cure tool to blend in over the spots. Obviously it worries me, because I'm partially wondering if it's something on my sensor (needing cleaning,) but my shots I took with the telephoto were fine. I'm going to have to do some testing on this.
Original can be found here.
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