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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Fletcher Lake and Vogelsang Peak. Yosemite National Park. August 27, 2005. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell.

This is another photo from last weekend’s pack trip out of Tuolumne Meadows in Yosemite National Park. This picture was taken at sunset and includes the lower end of Fletcher Lake in the foreground and Vogelsang Peak in the distance, slightly obscured by haze from a nearby forest fire.

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Lyell Canyon at Dusk. Yosemite National Park. August 26, 2005. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell.

The John Muir Trail leaves Yosemite’s Tuolumne Meadows via Lyell Canyon, following the Lyell fork of the Tuolumne River to cross the Sierra crest at Donohue Pass. This photo was taken at sunset near the junction of the Muir Trail and the lateral trail to Ireland Lake. Due to the wide range between the still-sunlit peaks and the dark, forested foreground this is a composite of two different exposures.

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