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Patricia Lake and Pyramid Mountain

Getting a balanced exposure when the sky is much brighter than the ground requires the use of a split neutral density filter, also called ND graduated filters or ND grads. The filter is grey on one half and clear on the other. The neutral grey tone helps darken part of the scene to balance the exposure. As you may know, reflections appear a bit darker than the scene reflected, so the filter should never be dark enough to make the scene appear the same brightness or darker than the reflection. In this case I goofed a bit. The mountain is slightly darker than the reflected mountain. Also, the scan didn't capture the colours as well as on the original slide. Without Photoshop I can't really do enough to correct the colours.

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Jean M. Laffitau 19 Mar 2007

Breathtaking shot Peter!!

Anita Thompson 04 Mar 2006

Well if this is "goofing" I must say.....it is one of the most impressive goofs I have ever seen! Looks perfect to me! Outstanding photography!

Gary Glass 03 Jan 2006

Beautiful image and composition Peter.. Wonderful use of the forground to take you into the overall image..

Charlotte Ottilo 30 Dec 2005

This is another example of your magnificent work..I am sooo impressed and can only hope to someday capture half of what you have.I'm learning just from reading your comments..I was wondering what an ND was..thankyou...Fantastic Photo!

Renee Nemerov 18 Dec 2005

Beautiful!!! Great colors!