Sunrise at Lake Tahoe

I was finally in Tahoe with some clouds in the sky! It has been three or four trips but finally it happened! And I was able to get out at sunrise, even better. I am super excited about some of the photos that came from this trip. I will post more to come.

I ran down the to the beach right of off Lake Tahoe Blvd and there were these two rocks that i decided to compose around. this is one of the first shots of the day.

I blended two photos, one for the sky and one for the water and rocks. then i did some color adjustments to get the photo to what I saw down at the lake. I did a levels adjustment on color blending mode to remove the magenta cast and then sharpened using high pass. I had to clone out two boats that were right near the middle of the photo.

EDIT***4/27/09
Reworked it in LAB and sharpened and resized.

used a cokin soft x2 grad for this one. Unfortunately that is the only grad filter that I own.

EDIT***7/2/2009
Fixed the colors a bit, and sharpened a bit as well.