New shots from recent trip to Lakes Basin area of Sierras in California. Drove to top of Smith Peak for golden hour and got orange and red hour instead due to wild fire smoke in the air. The sun itself was a deep blood red just as it set.
I only found two decent compositions, both seemed to work best as a square crop. The image with the lake in particular had the small dirt parking area just to the bottom left.
Shot on the Panasonic GX8 with 14-140mm lens. I think I'm actually at around 14mm on the lake shot and 140mm for Lassen Peak. Both images processed in Luminar 2018. Despite their appearance I applied relatively little extra saturation or vibrance.
I left the OIS on for these by accident so I think I could gave got even shaper images if I'd paid more attention, but I'm relatively pleased with how they came out for an MFT system.
Would love to hear comments from the more experienced photographers on composition or processing. These were shot quick as the sun was setting fast and I was doing double duty making sure my kids didn't fall of the edge of the 7750' cliff! So I'm sure I could have done better with my comp.
