Grabbed this snapshot of my wife while vacationing in Arizona this past week, and I think the shot will evoke wonderful memories for us in years to come. Your thoughts and comments are always welcome.
I hate heights....and seeing her sitting there...even if there is lots of rock below her feet, it gives me the heebees jeebees. It is a nice phot and will be one that brings back lots of memories.... But looking at the edge like that makes my knees hurt! I just don't like heights, but I like the photo!
really nice, evan. amanda looks at peace sitting among such beauty. i have to ask, did you shoot this telephoto? i cannot tell if that background is compressed or not...either way, it looks perfect...painterly without being obliterated...i also cannot imagine you carrying around a tele while on vacation
Chuck: When I plan on shooting landscapes these days, I usually bring my 70-200f4is, which is pretty light and small. This shot was done toward the shorter end on that lens at f/8.
I tweaked some things and have a more refined version. Amazingly enough, the sky was not actually clipped, so I burnt it down some to even it out, along with modulating the contrast in the background some. (note some gradient loss happened from downmix to sRGB)
Absolutely wonderful. I am trying to force myself to show more clear background in my portraits. I am with Herb though and could not stomach the heights. I would have had to photoshop out the rope that I tied to my wife
Having been to the canyon and the first time being so amazed at the expanse of the area, I recall that the first photo is how I remember it. At the time thinking why can't I make out better clarity, why can't I see better colors.....never dawned on me until much later that it was because it is SO big and that it is much farther away than I would have imagined.......there must be only a few days a year under particular conditions that one could get a really clear shot. That the colors would jump.....I am not sure when that is or what time of the day......but I really like the first one because that reminds me of exactly how it looks in my memory......
