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September 16, 2013
Sunrise at Crater Lake National Park, Oregon, USA

Sunrise Over Crater Lake
Sunrise Over Crater Lake
Crater Lake National Park, Oregon, USA
Canon EOS 1D X; 45 TS; 2-stop hard grad ND; 1/60, 1/30, 1/15, 1/8, & 1/4 sec; f13; ISO 100
Image taken on September 15, 2013.
There was just a thin band of clouds to the east at Crater Lake yesterday morning, so I waited for the sun to crest the crater rim and create a starburst. I used a 2-stop hard graduated neutral density (ND) filter to help balance the exposure of the sky and the rest of the image and 5 exposures 1-stop apart combined using the Lightroom HDR technique to bring out detail from the extremely bright sun to the quite-dark foreground.

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