Schrammsteinaussicht

Last Weekend me and a couple of fellow landscapers from germany went to saxony Switzerland once more. The hopes were high, as usual. We wanted to photograph a view with fog in the valley and some magic light in the sky. But again either we had no fog at all or it completely fogged up.

Here is a view from the Schrammsteinaussicht, I shot during sunrise. We got up 3:15am hiked 45 minutes through the dark and were greeted by clear skies. Not ideal but ok, at least some color was there. We started shooting east, and the light just didn't get as intense as I had hoped. So I switched my position and went to this viewpoint, facing west.

You can bet just as I setup my tripod there I looked back east to see the sky starting to glow very intense. Damn, but it didn't help, it would just be a few minutes and I wanted to shoot another scene.

Yes, the glowing Schrammsteine you see in the photo was what I was after and I have to say it was good I kept my position there. A beautiful display of color as the stones were bathed in the red-orange light.

I used a lee 0.6 soft and lee 0.6 hard gnd here + a polarizer to emphasize the colors