I photographed that landscape in late fall 2009 while hiking down a mountain close to the town we’re living in.
Exif Info:
- Exposure Times: 1/80,1/320,1/1250
- Aperture: f/4.5
- ISO: 200
- Focal Length: 35mm
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I know I’m living in a very picturesque region and I probably do not appreciate it enough but every time I see this view I get reminded of that fact. I’m literally living just around 4 miles away from where I shot this picture. The tallest mountain in the background is Mount Pilatus and the lake right below it is Lake Lucerne.
Exact Location of shooting position: This is the view from top of Rigi Scheidegg, a mountain right next to the village I live. You can actually see part of my home-town in the lower left corner of the picture. This is not an HDR picture – it’s a single exposure image with no tone-mapping processing at all. This was possible as I shot this quite early in the day On December 26, 2009 at around 10am. I added a graduated filter in Lightroom to darken the sky and boosted the contrast using a black&white layer in Photoshop by using an overlay blending mode. Finally some minor tweaking in Lightroom by desaturating the image a tad.
I was planning again to shoot star trails tonight but I changed plans… I shot this picture just about 30 minutes later than yesterday’s shot but it’s quite different – isn’t it?
The weather forecast announced a very hot day with temperatures around 35C or 95F so we went up to the mountains.
Light was horrible but I knew I wouldn’t have time to shoot later in the day so I worked with what I got -> horrible light. Due to the fact that the sun was still quite high I decided to include some sun-flares that should hit the rock near the water.
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