Mount Democrat from Kite Lake by Josh Lannin

Epic 100

After a hike up Mount Democrat, one of Colorado's 14 thousand foot peaks, I got back to the parking lot and took this panorama looking back up at the mountain. The lighting was excellent, and while cloudswere forming none were casting shadows over the scene. If you look carefully you can see a few hikers.

This image was taken with a Canon T1i with a 300mm lens w/image stabilizer zoomed all the way out to 55mm. An Epic 100 was used to take the photos, and it was stitched with APG. I took the photo in HDR, but found the mountains looked most natural using the non-HDR 1/320 assembled shot (due to the uniform light), but that the clouds looked best from the HDR image. So I used Photoshop to combine the images, retaining the colors of the 1/320 but pulling in the HDR clouds which have more definition.