The Schreckhorn reflected in Bachalpsee, above Grindelwald, Switzerland.
This was the location I most wanted to shoot while in Switzerland, and luckily I got the chance twice. This is the very first shot I took upon arriving at the lake, having had something like it in my head for quite some time. This is one of only a very few shots of mine that were pre-planned
Once I arrived I looked around for a while to find the best angle, and this rock presented itself as some nice foreground interest. I spent another couple of minutes lining up the shot, positioning my tripod exactly where I wanted, then removed my camera and used it to meter the foreground and background separately. The difference was roughly two stops, so I put the camera back on my tripod and lined up a grad ND4 with the horizon. I then removed the entire filter holder, screwed in my ND400 and reattached the grad filter in its holder. I didn't use a polariser in this case because of the angle to the sun, almost straight on, and because I wanted to preserve the reflection on the water. It was then a simple matter of stopping down to get the exposure length I wanted and taking the shot.
Post processing was light; I removed the slight colour cast the ND400 tends to give, bumped the contrast a tiny bit with curves, then my standard resizing, sharpening and titling for the web.
This looks so beautiful and serene! The detail is spectacular and the lake looks so clear
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Gotta try, gotta try for tomorrow
you can't see through today
Gotta try, gotta try for tomorrow
you can't see through today
There's nowhere left to stay
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Great work, I love and appreciate every artist putting some effort to give some photo info!
Amazing photo!
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I'm glad you appreciate it, I've learned a lot from other photographers doing the same so thought I'd try and give something back
It was! Up in the mountains the lakes and streams are all crystal clear
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