Patoka Lake

Gallery: LandscapePosted January 2, 201098 views6 comments

On a spur of the moment yesterday I drove to Patoka Lake near Tell City, Indiana and had a pretty decent hour of shots. Out of 45 photos, I picked out at least 10 that I really, really liked and felt proud of. This is one of them. I did some tweaking in PSP, cropped it a bit and lightened the shadows, and brought up the saturation level. Yes that little white puffy streak in the middle of the sky is a bit annoying but I am still working on getting rid of it without messing up the photo.
I used my Sony a100, focal length was 18.0mm, Exposure time was 1/60sec and f-stop was 6.3 and ISO was 100
I had it on landscape mode if any are curious, also it was around 20 degrees and very windy, the sun was also going down pretty fast, otherwise I would've spent longer than an hour and tried to have walked around the whole lake (yeah right, that would've taken all day). Anyways, tell me what you think.

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6 comments

Comment posted by Ron Pullen on January 2, 2010 at 4:50 PM

Andrea, you did catch a little color in the clouds, very nice. Your not far from me, I'm just across the river in Owensboro.

Happy New Year! Ron

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Comment posted by Andrea Hadley on January 2, 2010 at 6:19 PM

So I'm not the only one who lives around here? Awesome, I'd rather live somewhere in the mountains rather than here, but it isn't bad.

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Comment posted by Ron Pullen on January 2, 2010 at 6:25 PM

Yes Andrea, another flatlander here and I too long for the mountains. I get there when I can. Ron

Registered on December 18, 2005, 74 Posts, 1413 Comments

Comment posted by Pat Sampson on January 2, 2010 at 6:38 PM

I like the mountains you guys but I'm an Okie and I still miss the thunderstorms and sky in the Midwest. I like this image. Nice color and the white streak isn't a problem as far as I'm concerned. The shoreline looks like it needs a touch of CCW rotation but it may just be me. Good looking image IMO.

Pat

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Comment posted by Angela McCain on January 2, 2010 at 11:40 PM

Looks like cotton candy.

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Comment posted by Andrea Hadley on January 3, 2010 at 4:29 PM

Thanks so much for your comments, someday I plan on visiting the Rockies, but it won't be anytime soon I think. I love the clouds that look like cotton candy too.

Registered on July 3, 2009, 8 Posts, 51 Comments