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First Light On The Eagle

First Light On The Eagle

The shot below is "3 Brothers". I have a particular idea of the kind of shot I want from here as my "unicorn" shot but the weather didn'...
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The shot below is "3 Brothers". I have a particular idea of the kind of shot I want from here as my "unicorn" shot but the weather didn't co-operate. What I did get was ice near the banks of the Merced river. I've never see this myself nor many shots of this condition from here. I wanted to get the first light on Eagle peak (the left most brother) and had a comp in mind. I tried to emphasize the ice in post and there's even some Iridescence near the edge of the ice that was above the water line.
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