View from Ahawahnee Meadow

Taken from Ahawahnee Meadow a few days after the big storm of last week.

No cropping and very little PP done to the image - I'm particularly interested in composition comments as well as is there too much polarizer.

D300, Nikkor 18-22 AF-S DX VR lens, f25 at 1/30, tripod and polarizer

Dan Ryan
Northern California

Comp works for me. My eye moves about from Half Dome, to the cluster of barren trees, and onto the granite cliff face quite nicely in a triangular fashion. Polarizer effect isn't so bad... I could see selectively darkening the left sky or doing a gradient dodge on the right to balance it out, if you wanted. Nice work!

Dan, To my eye the darker blue is pleasing. The comp works nicely. Well done. Best Regards.

This is a classic image, but I never tire of seeing it, particularly in this
instance, Dan. For my taste it's not over polarized. The cloud resting
on the front of Half Dome adds to the appeal.

Nice image Dan, I do like the two main elements Half Dome and the white trees. I think a crop off both sides might make the 2 main elements more prominant since everything else is just decor.

Nice take ona a classic.

Paul

Nice shot. Be careful using those really small apertures, at the moment, I can't think of what it is called, but there is a reason not to use the smallest aperture unless absolutely necessary for depth of field, and in this case, you have nothing really in the foreground, so an aperture of f11 or 16 would have produced a sharper image.