Astotin Lake Sun Set

Description

Astotin Lake Sun Set is an International award-winning print; can be printed on Fine Art Paper; Canvas; Metallic or Acrylic. Fine Art print is available in four materials in five sizes; Frames are available via special order; Prices are available on request; Shipping is added on top of special orders.

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Astotin Lake

Located in Elk Island National park; the lake is about a 20-minute drive from Highway 16 to Lloydminster from the main gate. Elk island national park is a common getaway just outside Edmonton by 35 minutes. It has been increasingly popular since the Covid crisis hit.

Astotin Lake is known for various activities including:

• fishing
• canoeing
• kayaking
• camping
• Photography

A campground is located inside the cattle grids for camping in the summer months. Astotin Lake is also known for photography; including Astrophotography and Aurora photography. The Lake is commonplace for Aurora Borealis photography and watching the northern lights during the storms.

The day-use facility comprises washrooms; food trucks and picnic tables with fire pits.

Why are there cattle grids on the entrances

Elk Island is a large national park that is home to the Bison. The bison roam during the day and night. Cattle grids keep the Bison away from the camping and day-use areas. However; a word of caution; the Bison still get into the area and can avoid the cattle grids. People should take care at various times at night; especially while the Bison are mating.

 

Our Story at the Lake

On August 26th 2017 we arrived at the lake day-use area and got ready for a night of photography ahead of us. We had only just started going to the Lake after photographing the Bison and other wildlife in the park. We arrived around 6:30 pm after finishing work for the day. We were starting to take time-lapse photos and construct videos from them.

After setting up our equipment we started making several time-lapses of the sun setting. Then as the sun was getting ready for bed; we started our final time-lapse.

Astotin Lake Sunset time-lapse

While creating the final time-lapse we were taking photos every few seconds with the Canon 5D Mark III and we noticed that the sun started to set and create a beautiful glow in the clouds which reflected onto the mirror lake surface. We took several cell phone pictures of the setup and the sun setting in this location; but now we had a difficult decision.

Do we continue capturing the sunset on time-lapse or capture some still photographs? We wondered if the time-lapse would be worth taking or whether it would be ruined in the back of our minds.

So we stopped the time-lapse and started the manual process of taking photos of the sunset. From around 8:30 to 8:45 pm; this beautiful sunset photograph was at Astotin lake.

 

Post Processing

We did very little post-processing on this photograph because of the raw format; we used lightroom and photoshop to highlight the usually dull colors after loading a basic. We did use photoshop to clean up the distractions in the front of the Lake’s edge which made the photograph a more Fine art feel.