Best on black. Here's another reedit and composite of a couple of shots taken at Crater Lake. Thanks so much for your visits, comments, suggestions, favs
My granddaughter happened to walk by while I was looking at this and said - "Wow - where's that?" That I needed to learn how to do shots like that. (In her dreams). It's gorgeous!
@theredcamera i took a bunch of night shots at Crater Lake with high ISO that were very noisy. So this is a composite of a daytime shot of the lake and mountains with the night sky shot also taken at Crater Lake (at night of course). I added the night sky to the daytime shot that I had darkened a bunch and then fiddled and fiddled with WB and color correcting until top and bottom seemed to match. I also burned the places where the sun was showing on the hills until it looked fairly believable as moonlight
@jgpittenger Thanks so much for your description! Sounds like a lot of work, but so worth it! My plan is to learn Photoshop this winter, and these are great tips. BTW do you live in Oregon?
Oh, Jane -- ethereal and other worldly! You must have taken this before we arrived? I'm so impressed with what you've achieved here, from composition to colors to clarity. The presentation is so artistic. Sigh. If only we could go back again. The only photo of our entire trip that I processed and posted was of the Golden Mantled Ground Squirrel singing, and the waterfall from the train trip we took around the crater. You've inspired me to go back and take a look at my photos again. But I wasn't in a good state then so perhaps I should let those photos go and look forward to going back.
OMG! I remember the night we were there and this is absolutely incredible! Everything about it (as Junko said) is fabulous. It brings out how it felt only even better. It does make me want to return to my images from that night, but I don't think I have anything like this -- wow! I wouldn't change a thing!
Excellent edit, love the highlights along the mountains too! I noticed it was taken very early in the morning, you waited as long as possible to get the right shot and the vertical positioning! I like the reflection in the lake as well! Fav for sure!
September 8th, 2020
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I was there once (during the day) and was blown away by the beauty of the area.