Waiting

Taken in October 2006 at Pictured Rocks/Lake Superior National Lakeshore. We were there for scenery, but I could not resist this. Interesting story behind this image. It is a composite of a jpeg sky and RAW rocks (to hold detail)

Nicely seen, Patrick. Beautiful colors. Did you get a shot without the foreground subjects as well?

Probably the story of my life is always waiting for the shot.

What I posted was a combination of two images: (1) a jpeg image in which the sky and body positions of the photographers were better, but the foreground was dark and exhbited less detail, and (2) a subsequent RAW image from which I was able to recover more foreground detail but the sky was less impresive and the photographers had moved into less appealing positions. I blended the two images in Photoshop CS2.

Both images included the foreground one way or the other. Do you thiink the image would have been better had I zoomed in closer?

Very nice Patrick, looks like good memories to me. Are any of the photographers people we might know? Nice work on the blend.

Good job on the blend. I like how the tripod bisects the sun. As you say, the image tells alot about the life of a photgrapher. To me, the comp is good as is.

The comp works for me too, Patrick. Nice work combining the two images.

Very nice Patrick, I love the comp in this, really tells what it is like to be out in the great outdoors with the camera !!