Tenaya Lake, Yosemite NP

I got this image in June of this year
on my return trip from the Easter Sierra.
It was quite a sunset and reflection. Con-
sequently, I didn't do much post processing.
I value your comments/critiques.

Canon 5D Mark II
Tamron 28-300 Zoom Lens
Polarizer
Bogen Tripod

Robert, I like the mix of the warm and cool tones in the water and ice, leading up to the warm peaks. The middle ground looks sharp, but the foreground and especially the background look kind of soft to me. What f/ stop are you using to shoot scenes like this?

Good question, Harley. I don't know. I should have used at least F16,
but I can't say with certainity that I did.

Very nice Robert, I do like the white balance opposite as Harley mentioned. The peak on the on the right looks sharp but the left side of the mountain does not. Was there any cropping happening here? If you have only the left piece of your frame getting fuzzy you might need to have the lens recalibrated, sometimes they get banged around or just need it every now and then.

Thanks for the feedback, Steve. Yes, I did a little cropping. I've never
had the lens recalibrated. Perhaps that along with the cropping caused
the blurriness.

Here is a vertical of the above scenic. I'm not sure if I've corrected
the problems of blurriness and out of focus. I'll let you be the judge.
In the original image the horizon was quite crooked; consequently,
I used the "straightening" tool and "cropped." I had to that as well
for the horizontal, or first, version.

I did use a tripod; however, if I didn't have the Fstop or didn't hyperfocal
correctly, both the horizontal and vertical are lost images. I also did some
minor sharpening in the vertical. I appreciate your feelings on the matter.
Thank you in advance for your comments.

Very unusual take on Tenaya Robert. It is a very unusual problem you have there, it could be what Steve said but who knows. Most of the time my entire image is slight oof, especially in low light conditions like this. Cropping out the default makes a sharper image for sure and the triangular peak is the most photogenic, so I think you rescued it.

Paul

Something odd is happening with the trees in the first, did you dodge them? It doesn't look as odd in the second image.

In both images I worked on lightening the shadows, darkening the highlights,
and tweaking the midtone contrasts. I did not do so equally in both versions.
However, I did not do any "dodging". Thank you for your comments.