I do a lot of planning for many of my images, studying maps and moon rise times and angles, and anything else I can think of to maximize the opportunities I'll have for interesting compositions.
In the case of this shot, I looked at the Mono Lake web cam and saw the clouds, arrived at this spot an hour later, took a few pictures, and went home.
The color onsite was just like this when I shot it… the blue in particular down by the lake seemed surreal! I was temped to simply stop and watch it, but nah, when I capture it in camera, I can enjoy the moment a lot longer!
Mono Lake is in the Eastern Sierra region in California and Nevada, including Lake Tahoe and extending past the western border of Death Valley National Park. Here is an album on G+ containing more of my Eastern Sierra images: https://plus.google.com/photos/107459220492917008623/albums/5720045267134409521
I'll be leading several photography workshops in this area in 2013:
http://www.jeffsullivanphotography.com/blog/eastern-sierra-night-photo-workshops-2013/
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This image is a storm :P ! Lovely work as always Jeff!
+Jeff Sullivan thanks for the extra details makes me want to plan better. Sounds like you may have not needed a lot of post edit but I am curious of what you used?
Magnifique
Utterly gorgeous.
Visually beautiful photo. Plus your interesting comment.
All I use for 98% of my images +David Williams is a quick adjustment in +Adobe Photoshop Lightroom, and if I take more than 2 or 3 minutes per photo it's probably because I let a lot of dust into the camera while changing lenses.
+Jeff Sullivan that's good to know ... my wife edits my work in Lightroom ... I know a photographer that uses multiple programs and spends like 30 minutes to an hour per image... not me :)
There are no words to describe the magnificence of this image. I love your commentary, I always feel like you are talking to Me, not just commenting on the photo and prep. :-)
Sometimes the dynamic range of the light in the scene is too great and I try Photmatix HDR +David Williams. But that tends to destroy the realism of the result, so a return trip to Lightroom may be necessary.
I had some interesting results with Nik Software's Color Efex Pro 2 recently (after some initial adjustment in Lightroom) , but the 2 week trial was too short to really dive into the many other modules.