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I break my self-made rule of posting one image per week with this one, because I wanted to share this image with you.

I'm myself surprised how it turned out, because I made so many mistakes here. Just before this shot, I took another one, and when I turned around I noticed this scene. I quickly set up and attached a 2 stop GND filter. I was a little in a hurry because I had a feeling the fisher will not stay long there and I was right. This shot turned out to be underexposed and the focus is off (I was practicing manual focus and failed). While still checking which other filter to apply he left this spot and the scene was gone. I did another shot of this fisher on the rocks, which still was not exposed correctly. I should have just bracketed my exposures and merged them later. So lesson learned.

I was still able to recover some things in Lightroom and am little surprised about the outcome. I kind of like the "painterly" look of the image, though it would likely not work out as a big print.

What do you think?

I hope you like it anyway and thanks for visiting.

UPDATE: Richard just enabled to upload larger images and I uploaded a slightly edited and bigger version.

Camera Make: Canon
Camera Model: Canon EOS 5D
Aperture: F11
Exposure Time: 1/30 sec
Focal Length: 39.0 mm
ISO: 50
Exposure Bias: 1/-3
Shooting Mode: Aperture priority
Flash: Flash did not fire, auto
Metering Mode: Multi-segment

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Comments:

I'll take a risk of saying this is one of your best shots !!! I am impressed with most of your landscape photos, they're just awesome. I'd like to have this know-how one day :-). Regards!

Posted by Pawel on July 08, 2008 at 11:38 PM EEST #

Looks like a lovely morning or evening, whichever, the sun's rays are just falling on the fisher putting him in the spotlight. I wish my mistakes or even my good pictures turned out as fine as this one!

Posted by Eric on July 09, 2008 at 01:54 AM EEST #

You really do have some beautiful photographs, and this is also one of my favorites. When I first opened this photo I stared at it for a while taking in its beauty and peacefulness. Then I read your post about it. I think this was a happy mistake. And all photos were not meant to be view large.

Posted by Debbie Hartmann on July 09, 2008 at 04:28 AM EEST #

Beautiful colors!

Posted by Joaquin Arias on July 09, 2008 at 10:26 AM EEST #

I love it, Sven! It's a really nice picture with beautiful colors.

Posted by Alejandra on July 09, 2008 at 01:21 PM EEST #

I thank you all very much for your nice words and I honestly feel seriously flattered.
On a site note... I made a medium-sized print from it in a lab right now and that looks fine. Looking forward to receive a bigger one by the end of the week.

Posted by Sven on July 09, 2008 at 04:28 PM EEST #

Nicely done.

Posted by desolate | metropolis on July 09, 2008 at 05:49 PM EEST #

To be a photo with all mistakes you did something wonderfull of it! Colors and everything is good but i think i like the comp and scenery best, good work!

Posted by m i c k e s on July 11, 2008 at 10:11 AM EEST #

Wonderful composition and colours, I like this peaceful atmosphere.

Posted by Wolfgang Burzler on July 12, 2008 at 07:41 PM EEST #

Thank you very much. I very glad you like it. I have uploaded a bigger and slightly different edit.

Posted by Sven on July 14, 2008 at 08:00 AM EEST #

Sehr fein - bissken arg HDR aber ansonsten fettes Teil Herr Kollege. Mehr davon !

Posted by Martin Gommel on July 14, 2008 at 01:38 PM EEST #

Herzlichen Dank Martin! Fuehle mich echt geschmeichelt.
Ja, sieht schon etwas sehr HDR'ig aus... Leider war der RAW-File so unterbelichtet das ich da viel mit Fill-Light in Lightroom arbeiten musste, dazu ist der Focus im off, dann passiert wohl sowas. War/bin selber ueberrascht davon ;-) (Vielleicht sollte ich das zu einem Stil machen). Wenn ich besser in Photoshop wäre liesse sich wohl sicher noch mehr machen. Ich hab' noch ein Foto von der Szene ca.30 sekunden später mit dem Angler auf einem der Felsen, der kommt auch irgendwann. War aber auch zu unterbelichtet ;-)

Posted by Sven on July 14, 2008 at 03:03 PM EEST #

beautiful tone

Posted by BoB on July 18, 2008 at 11:01 AM EEST #

Such a relaxing image! Wish I was there!

Posted by Gregor on July 18, 2008 at 02:00 PM EEST #

Thanks a lot for your nice comments.

Posted by Sven on July 19, 2008 at 04:19 PM EEST #

This is an amazing picture. Just happend to find you site and this picture, thank you for giving me the oppoetunity to see it

Posted by Bjorn on September 17, 2008 at 11:43 PM EEST #

The light is really good and the colors are great!!

Posted by Rafal Czajkowski on September 18, 2008 at 12:13 AM EEST #

Thanks Bjorn and Rafal for your kind words. I'm happy you like my work.

Posted by Sven on September 18, 2008 at 11:15 AM EEST #