Scouting Shovel Point

Shovel Point HDR
(Canon 5d, 24mm tse lens)

I scouted Shovel Point for a dawn shoot. It is a 45 minute drive from where I am camped and another 45 minute hike. It starts to get light at 4:30 so I need to leave by 3, good luck with that! Once I take some photographs here tomorrow I will head to Ely, MN and see about canoing in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness for a few days. If that doesn't seem practical I will just canoe in one or two of the lakes north of Ely to see if I can scope some wildlife photographs.

Todays image is a High Dynamic Range or HDR photograph taken while I was scouting this location. There can be such a large difference between the light in the sky and the objects on the ground that my camera is unable to capture it all. HDR is a technique where you take two or more pictures with different exposures and combine them into one that is properly exposed. HDR images can be tricky to work with, but I think this one looks very natural.