Hello everybody. My Name is Jonas and I'm a 15 years old photographer from switzerland. I took this picture of the Morteratsch glacier in the near of Pontresina, Switzerland. The final picture is manually composed of 3 shots. Your thought and critics are welcome.
Hi Jonas,
Wonderful baseline for an image. Awesome colours, flowing water, snowy mountains and sunset.
But due to the processing some of the mood is lost. It’s missing a bit of contrast and deeper shadows to bring out that sliver of light on the mountain.
I’m not sure if you needed to braket this shot, it doesn’t hurt but then you need to be careful in the post processing
Thanks for your feedback! I wanted the water soft so I shot a long exposure. But then the sky was competely overexposed. Because of that I decided to compose several photos. But you are right. A lot of contrast has been lost with this technique.
Did you use a filter? How long was your exposure and what was your aperture?
The beauty of RAWs is that you can being easily back the contrast you lost ;)
I did not use a filter. I took all Pictures with f/14. The exposure of the lights at the mountains was 1/13 sec, of the mountains 0.6 sec and of the water and the trees 1.6 sec.
Why I'm asking about the filter is, that you said you only overexposed because of the water. I assume your camera would be able to maintain all detail at 1/2s.
Put a 4 stop ND on it you have single exposure at 6s with blurry water and maybe no need for HDR.
But then again nothing is wrong with HDR as long as you don't introduce any ghosting.
You can always make a picture darker without any problem, just don't use auto toned HDR.
The real star of the show here is the beautiful light hitting those mountain peaks but unfortunately this is lost here with this edit. lovely scene though, maybe revisiting one of those bracketed shots and seeing if this can be used instead of the HDR technique would have been best for this scene.