Just a terrific road, Robert. I love this kind of high-desert country- especially around Tucson- with saguaro, cholla and dozens of other delightful desert plants.
An excellent photograph- especially the middle section all the way across.
In fact, have you considered cropping out about half of the cloudless sky?
And maybe even the bottom 1/3 of the road?
Just a thought .
Charlie
Charlie Shugart wrote:
Just a terrific road, Robert. I love this kind of high-desert country- especially around Tucson- with saguaro, cholla and dozens of other delightful desert plants.
An excellent photograph- especially the middle section all the way across.
In fact, have you considered cropping out about half of the cloudless sky?
And maybe even the bottom 1/3 of the road?
Just a thought .
Charlie
Yeah, I find this "empty" desert one of the most facinating places on earth.
Hadn't thought of tighter crop. I take a shot of it and see what happens
Take two based upon Charlie's thoughts. Taken 3/4 way a 13 hour day (7 hours of driving, 6 hours of shooting a track meet.) Perhaps too sharpened but I like the way the road lays better. Thoughts?
Robert
Evening in the high Sonora.
May 06, 2013 at 10:03 AM
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Interesting. I felt the apex of the curve (white line) had to stay in but I agree that the foreground road would be better chopped tighter. I've been stuck in 3x4 format (newspaper) so much of late that I didn't think about unconstraining the proportions. As for the sky, hard to take wide view pictures around here without knowing that the sky is overwhelming. As for lighter, it doesn't come out well here, but I pulled the shadows up (and sharpened) the foreground saguaro and deepened the shadowed ridges against the sky. The sun had just set to the middle right (between the hill in the foreground and the peak). There was light still in the valleys. Was trying to express that. Funny how in black and white there are so many more ways to see a photo than one normally gets in color!?
Won't post anymore but am definitely going to keep playing with it. (And I can do all this without the stink and dripping hands it use to take
Robert
May 06, 2013 at 05:03 PM
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