Noting quite like a slot canyon in Arizona to display all kinds of light. They also can be challenging to capture a scene and convey the light as one intended. Of course, in any canyon, handling the shadows properly can be challenging. I think I pulled it off, but would be curious on your thoughts.
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Super image. For a place that's photographed so much, I think this is a great photo. It has very good sharpness and color. Everything looks just right.
It's fantastic, composition, light, color...the processing is just a bit too 'digital' smooth for me. Those slot canyons were some of my most memorable from our Out West trip many years ago.
erielake wrote:
cool looking section of that slot and the processing looks great....i'd also try a square crop with the lower section minus the path
Yea, I thought about a crop and have several slot images with no ground showing already. Those turn out to be more of an abstract, which I also like. However, without the ground showing, many folks aren't sure what they are looking at.
Thanks for the comment!
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Rajan Parrikar wrote:
Wonderful composition and tones. A saturation mask to pull the reds back a little would make it even better, in my view.
Yea, those orange-reds are a bit vibrant, but I normally pump those up for web viewing. My master file is less saturated for sure.
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I agree. For a place overly photographed, this looks GREAT and original! Very nice job!
I too would be tempted to take down overall saturation by 5-10 pts in Photoshops Color Layer Blend Mode (so tones/contrast does not change). Still beautiful as is!
