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Behind the lens #3 – Autumn splendor

27 January 2022

Two months after our trip in Iceland and the making of the Behind the lens #2 picture we made a few days trip in what became our favorite place in France : the Vallée de la Clarée. Located in central French Alps near the Italian border, it is an incredible valley of larch forests crossed by a clear and pure river.

Coming in this place in late october gives you anyone a strong memory for the rest of your life.

I made few nice pictures from our trip there : some from the summits around, some from the lakes in the higher valley and some from the larches, the most iconic tree of the Hautes-Alpes.

But no other picture is as good as this one. Actually I think it is one of the first pictures I made from this trip. It combines everything I love in landscape photography : a golden light, a strong composition, a depth, and this cloudy sky mixed with some blue parts.

I like dramatic skies like many other landscape photographers, but I also love blue skies when they are combined with nice mountains and golden colors like the one from the larches, the ground and the sun.

I used for this picture the same gear than in the previous Behind the lens post, but with a new filter in top front of my camera : a polarizer. This trip was the first in which I tried a polarizer, and for no reason I will ever remove it from my camera now.

A polarizer gives you many advantages when you know how to use it, and the two main ones are :

  • It pops the colors, really. Especially when dealing with skies.
  • It gives you the possibility to break or enforce reflexion in waters

I have two polarizer in my camera bag : the classic one I put in front of the lens when I don’t use any other filter, and the specific and big one (105mm) I can put in the front of my Lee filters holder. This is the second one I used in this picture, combined with a classic graduated filter 0.9 GND soft for the sky and the summits.

My filter here was an Heliopan CPL 105mm, a strong companion that stayed with me from this first trip in 2013 until… another trip in the same area in september 2020 when I broke it by accident. I replaced it by the one from Lee after that.

Apart from the use of the polarizer this picture was done with classic camera setting for landscape photography : f16 for the sharpness, 1/8s speed thanks to the tripod, ISO 100, and warm white balance.


  • Nikon D800
  • Nikon 16-35 f4 at 16mm
  • f/16 – 1/8s – ISO 100
  • Lee filter 0.9 GND soft
  • Heliopan CPL 105
  • Tripod
  • Single exposure
  • Title : Autumn splendor
  • Date : october 2013
  • Place : Vallée de la Clarée (French Alps)
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