I recently had the opportunity to spend over a month inside the canyonlands of Utah and Arizona. These travels consisted of everything from rarely visited slots, to the Grand Canyon and Zion. Contained on this page are ten of the images I feel best describe the grandeur of this landscape.
I will do my best to answer any questions pertaining to the images and I will look forward to comments and critique.
The first image here was made in the backcountry of Zion National Park.
5D, 70-200 at 180mm, no filters, f18
Edited by Marc Adamus on Dec 13, 2007 at 09:41 AM GMT
Mark: You sure nailed this wonderful area. You fully accomplished your plan. These are fantastic images individually and they perfectly reflect the grand, the subtle and the hidden beauty of the Southwest.
MarcR wrote:
So if nine describe it best and here are ten, which one doesn't?
Serious: I admire your strict editing. Ten pictures from one month shows
great restraint. Can I ask how many you took?
Hard to pick a favourite here; they're all great. Flaming Canyon is most
appealing to me, because I can nearly feel the foreground rocks.
I'll change that to ten.....
I took about 50GB of photos, so narrowing it to ten for this presentation was quite a chore. There are plenty of others I would have liked to included.
Marc, your work is obviously on another level from most of us. I'm constantly blown away with the images you share. One, I'm glad you still share your gorgeous images with those of us that have or may never achieve your level of skill.
I don't know how much of your knowledge your willing to share but even some imput from you as to your blending workflow or technique would be so valuable.
Another FM photographer and I just returned from doing some shooting on the east side of the sierra and we stopped and viewed the work of Galen Rowell at his gallery in Bishop. I know you always liked and admired his work and I feel that you are at that same level already. Anyway any tips or techniques you're willig to share with us want-to-bes (even us old ones) will be most appreciated.
Regards,
Randy
Edited by Randy Walton on Dec 13, 2007 at 06:22 PM GMT
Truly inspirational, but that is what we have become to expect from your compositions. As hard as I tried to pick a favourite I couldn't but I can state that the 1st image moved me the most.
I see that your f stops ranged 10 -22 as was curious as to how you determined the final outcome. I am thinking of visiting this area next March so these shots are very motivating to me.
