One of my favorite shots from the summer, "Moraine Lake"
No, not the famous Moraine Lake you're probably thinking of! I decided to have fun with the name with this one because it's a lake with lateral moraines in it. :)
The post-processing for this one required a bit more effort than usual. It's a time blend and a focus stack. Here are the two primary images I blended:
I wanted most of the foreground in shade with softer light, but unfortunately by then the nice light was gone from the lake. Doing a time blend allowed me to make the image how I envisioned the final result in my mind: the beautiful light on the lake, soft foreground light with most of it in shade and a longer exposure for the stream. Other edits include removing distracting elements, dodging and burning, targeted saturation increases and a bit of the Orton effect.
Image settings were f/11, 1/100s, ISO 100 for the lake and mountains. For the foreground I used f/22, ISO 320 and a much slower shutter speed of 1/8s. The entire image was shot at 14mm, no focal length blending or mountains stretching!
I hope you all enjoyed this image and a brief insight into the post-processing. Let me know if you have any questions!
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So the big questions is, what lake is this then?
For the most part I do not geotag locations online. Main exception is national or provincial parks that have systems in place to control the amount of visitors. This lake is only accessible by helicopter but even with that barrier I would rather not blast the location out all over the web.
Really nice shot and location!
I get not sharing the location. Though if one really wants to know the location, it's pretty easy to find. By using your photo it took me 1 minute to find out the location😋. Sorry, I had to do it since it came up.
Yes it's quite easy to find and no need to be sorry! But most people won't bother to do that. Otherwise I wouldn't post the image to social media at all haha. Like I said, my issue is not with sharing the location but simply with having the potential for a location to go viral. These places cannot support a rush of visitors.
I bet it was a fantastic experience!
It was very special!
Except for the bugs. I have yet to be to a mountain location in Canada with worse bugs than this place. Hundreds would swarm us while out shooting, even landing all over the camera and lens.
That would be annoying. It's annoying enough when you have to deal with rain, let alone bug swarms.
It's funny because we were actually hoping for rain 😂 It would have made for nice atmosphere when it cleared. The summer was so dry!
Thank you @qurator @ackhoo :)
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I was always wondering how it would be manageable to have a bright back and foreground in landscape photography..but always tough it must be because of the equipment, so thanks to fill in this gap!!😅
And a beautiful lake it is, did it take long to walk there?
Bright foreground and background can be work but it's definitely a lot harder!
It did not take long to walk to this viewpoint from camp, maybe about 15-20 minutes. However we had a helicopter drop us off at our camp because hiking here with huge packs would be a terrible bushwhack, and it allows us to bring our own amenities like a large cooking shelter.
...well I guess if you have a helicopter on you dispose, makes life easier:)
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Muy hermosa la vista, tremenda captura
Gracias :)
Stunning place and what a beautiful captures… I could imagine dreaming away there… being one with nature. Magical place. Thanks for sharing 😊
It's a very special place. Although the bugs are terrible lol.
It is and looks special, that’s a shame… most amazing places have something… and bugs are 😖😖 the worst.
Tristan, this is a truly epic scene. Makes me want to travel more!
Thanks Dan. I hope you can get around to doing that!