I love Jasper National Park! On my first and only visit to this park, we spent a few days with our friends Darwin and Samantha. Some of the best light of the entire trip appeared at sunset over Beauty Creek.

The range of light was pretty broad. This is an iHDR blend of 3 bracketed shots… and I also needed a 3-stop GND filter to help balance the light between the sky and the ground. I chose this composition to maximize the reflections and the colors in the sky… ignoring the rule of the thirds. I did put the little rock in the lower third of the image. :) If you look closely at this photograph, you will see both the reflections as well as rocks and details underwater. I did not use a circular polarizer because I wanted to capture those brilliant reflections.

When we visited Beauty Creek at Jasper National Park in Canada, we got lots of chances to photograph stunning reflections. The clouds were breaking up fast, and I took several shots with different compositions to include reflections.

This is a manually blended image. I used our iHDR workflow and a 3-stop, hard GND filter. I tilted the filter slightly so that it was aligned with the angle of the mountains. Because I wanted to see the reflections of the clouds, I did not use a circular polarizer. I adjusted the overall exposure so that I could see the details in every part of the image. If you look closely, you can see under the water and the reflections at the same time.