This is another photo from our recent trip to the Rocky Mountain National Park. Shortly after we had arrived at Estes Park I snuck out of the condo to take a few photos. I wanted to take some water pictures with the fall colors, but the cold snap had effectively killed all color. The trees had no leaves on them. Instead I took a side road and came to a location where you could see into Rocky Mountain National Park. After a short hike I found a high vantage point just as the sun was setting.

The specs.
iso 200
40mm
f/22
5 exposure HDR

I like how the clouds and the forest frame the Colorado Rockies.
I like the color of the clouds.
I like the snow on the Rockies.
I wish I would have remembered to shoot this in camera raw.

For this type of photo it is necessary to use a tripod and cable release. This is a five exposure HDR picture. A very simple explanation is that you set your camera to take five different pictures each at a different exposure. Two are overexposed, two are underexposed, one is exposed exactly the way you set it in the camera. You then load all five exposures into a program that blends the correct exposure of each photo into one picture. The program I use is Photomatix Pro.

For this picture I used five exposures, but you can do 3, 5, 7, 9. Photomatix Pro is an easy to use program that produces great results.

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