Siesta Lake, High Sierra, Yosemite National Park, Fall 2017
Siesta Lake has had some colorful changes since the last time I was up there.  The once light green grass has morphed into this  yellowish/light green hue.  

Due to the EV range, I did blend a 2-exposure @ 1-EV, in order to give the shadows some extra clean detail. Lightening the shadows on the main exposure didn't look right, so a lighter exposure was blended in to help them out a little. So call this a HDR image, even though only two frames were blended together. After trial and error with various crops, it ended up with this 16X9 ratio, taking off a little of both sides and some top and bottom. 

Aurora 2018 was used with global and several layers, to bring this image to life. A Polarizing filter was on the lens for the normal reasons.   

Post: Mcphun Aurora 2018 &amp; Lightroom 5 for basic setup.
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