Trillium Lake Sunrise

Went up to Mt. Hood for the weekend to do some exploring. Here's a shot from this morning's sunrise at Trillium. Just as the light got good a slight breeze kicked in causing some branches on the bush to sway. Hopefully it's not too distracting.

Beautiful work, hans.

reallly pretty scene. I just love Trillium Lake and you couldn't ask for easier access. This sorta feels a little left heavy with the mountain and the foliage on the left side, but that's a minor nit.

Thanks for commenting guys. Rick, you're right about the scene being left heavy. It just seems all the main elements lined up that way.

Jesse, I believe the closure is based on road conditions. I don't believe they have a specific date.

Very nice image Hans. I like the smooth, yet crisp detail as well as the soft, pastel color.

Another nice shot of trillium. This lake is just full of different comps. Did you use the S&H tool. It looks like it might have been overused just a tad. BTW I checked out your website and you have some real nice shots there. I also like the format.

Awesome comp - agree with Erik that the mountain seems a tad flat compared to the rest of the scene. Saturation seems a little hot also, but it's a beautiful moment you captured.

Erik, Trillium is one of my favorite locations because of it's limitless possibilities for compositions.

Didn't use the S&H tool for this one. I've actually been using Capture NX lately to do much of my PP then use PS for tools not in NX. I've been pretty happy with NX's capabilities.

This shot was taken just before the sun poked it's head out and there was also some haze to contend with. Sadly, the mountain was a little flat even in the RAW file . I tried some local enhancement without much success.

Thanks for checking out my website. I'm quite satified with Zenfolio's format. The controls and features for setting up galleries is very intutitive and user friendly. I love the ease of adding new galleries and photos. I used to build my own site using Frontpage, but found it too time consuming.

John, I'm still struggling with converting photos for web. After finishing my photos in PS, I use the save for web function and also open the photo in the IE brower to preview how it will look. The colors always look quite muted (especially greens) when compared with the photo in PS. I find myself having to push the saturation for the web trying to get them to look the way they do in PS.

I also sometimes question my monitor calibration. I use the cheap Colorvision ColorPlus to calibrate my Samsung LCD and also my CRT at work. Even though they are both calibrated they never render the same. Any pointers for web conversion or monitor calibration would be appreciated.

Ya know, the web and even different web applications are all still a mystery. I can look at the same image in Photoshop, Safari and Firefox in Mac OSX and THEY are not showing the same thing. Especially Firefox (Safari looks very close to PS CS3, but it's still a little different). And then you post the same image to Flickr, Fred Miranda and here and they look slightly different as well !!

There isn't a standard that everybody is following yet - it's clearly a big issue to us but I guess not that big a deal to those that are designing the web.....

I have a Monaco Optix which has been pretty reliable. I use Samsung 213T monitors.

One suggestion on the image, is an 8x10 portrait crop of this would be pretty sweet. Most of the action is in the Left 2/3's of the frame so that would really focus attention on the layers of the scene.... this is really nice. I'll have to walk over to this side of the lake next time I'm there

Hans...that frost on the ground and those clouds in the sky are perfect....those are what I was looking for 3 weeks ago....Glad you found it.........