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    Early Morning Lake Landscape - How to get a more balanced shot

    I have been trying to get some landscape shots at Hinze Dam (Advancetown Lake). I'm aiming at a large print.
    I'd love any advice on getting a better shot. Mine are always too dark despite the histogram looking pretty full to the right.

    To take this one I put on an ND 8 to soften the water and a soft NDGrad to pull the sky down. Sun was to my left. It was about 20 mins after sunrise.
    ISO 100
    21mm
    f/13
    5.0sec
    In Lightroom I have pushed the exposure up about 1 stop, pulled the highlights back and selectively put some saturation in the cloud and the reflected cloud using the adjustment brush

    Advancetown Lake1-1.jpg
    the histogram looks like

    Histogram.JPG

    This on was taken earlier with no filters
    ISO 100
    19mm
    f/11
    4sec
    Advancetown Lake2-1.jpg
    with this histogram
    Histogram2.JPG

    What do you think??

    This was my first outing with my new 6D
    Last edited by alextdel; 07-09-2014 at 1:12pm. Reason: additional info added
    Alex Delaforce - Teacher / Education and Technology Manager, Gold Coast
    Canon 6D, Canon 50D (died), Tokina 12-28, Tamron 70-200 (VC), Sigma 50.

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