Fletcher Lake Detail. Yosemite National Park. August 27, 2005. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell.

This is a somewhat different version of a shot I posted a couple of days ago. It shows some late-season greenery at Fletcher Lake in Yosemite’s backcountry.

Because of the wide dynamic range between the sunlit rocky slopes in the background and the shaded lake in the foreground, this image is a combination of two photos shot at different exposures. I created two Photoshop layers, each containing one of the original RAW files as a “smart object” so that I could edit them in the RAW converter before using masks and some other tricks to combine them.
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