Grand Dawn

That was indeed a beautiful sunrise. Im glad that you were able to capture it with such epic cliffs in the background. I do wish that the foreground was a bit more simplified, but that is difficult to find in that area. The exposure looks very natural to me -- good job with the blend. I wasn't setup to shoot that sunrise, but I did capture some video of it.

Stellar shot Chris!! Great processing all around. Love the 10 second flow. Great job!!

Very nice blending job. Really like the longer exposure for the water.

glorious light. i would have preferred a shorter (+/- 1s) for the FG (dial that ISO dial!) as i'm not always too fond (in these circumstances) of that glassy water look.

Looks great, Chris. Nice heavy tones and bumped up colors. If I had to be picky I would try to get some of the magenta out of the water - but only a little.

What a glorious scene Chris!

Epic

Beautiful shot Chris. There does seem to be a slight magenta cast in the water, but I'm on my work monitor now so I don't know how accurate that is.

Really crisp and impressive image. Quite magnificent.

An outstanding image, the milky water looks great
Well done.

Geoff.

On my monitor the mountains seem to be internally glowing. The water, for my taste, is overdone but long exposures necessary for your technique cannot overcome that--if it needs to overcome??
In my mind this is a surreal photo approaching photo art. I guess one had to be there for the unusual condition because this is a unique effort.
the fisch

Wow this is beauitful, great job on your proessing. The details are nice. Nicely done Chris.

Surreal and powerful...glowtastic.

Ian

Thanks for the comments. The AWB in camera gave the whole photo a very deep magenta cast so I had to correct that, but looks like some does still remain in the water. I usually do like 1-2 second exposures for water but kept thinking if I pushed the ISO too high I would lose detail for noise in the foliage that I was trying to preserve. The scene was very surreal, and in my mind it was even more colorful and majestic than I see when I look at the photo.

Wow. Tremendous image.

Was there anyone who didn't photograph this sunrise in Zion? Hahha...wow...just saying.

Great photograph Chris. Another cool take on a pretty amazing...and popular moment at that park.

Fan-freakin-tastic! The glow on the horizon is spectacular. Way to work the moment.

Sweet!

Just lovely Chris. Tremendous soft and warm light in an excellent composition. Maybe a little bit to crisp in the background trees.

Your post process work is very good and I also like this composition.

Great composition and the colors are breathtaking, Chris! Zion is one of
my favorite places to photograph and you've captured it well. Also good
shutter speed on the water.

Beautiful scene and well captured IMO

Great image Chris. The blend looks good to me, and the color and contrast is very rich. Very nice comp and I like the blurred water.

Glorious scene, and I love the color in the mountains and sky. The water and rocks do have a bit of an unrealistic sheen IMO. I love the texture of the water, but overall the bottom half of the image does have that "HDR look" to it... which isn't a negative at all if you're don't mind a touch of surrealism (as someone else put it).

Max

Spectacular!I don't mind the colour cast of the water(as long as I don't have to drink it )but I'm not a fan of the long exposure.I might have opened the apeture a bit as well as upped the ISO then tried a 2 shot blend for depth-of-field as well as exposure. Beautiful as is.

Pretty much a glorious image. Fantastic light and color.

I'm on the side of preferring a shorter shutter speed on the water but it does add to the almost surreal light going on. And, oh my, that glow on the Patriarchs is just fantastic.

Gorgeous! Amazing light and exposure showing all the detail throughout. This really reminds me of Marc Adamus' work!

Chris

Lovely scene Chris. The light is certainly a great bonus.

I saw this image in Chris's camera and witnessed it in person. There's nothing Photoshopped about that glow on the peaks (reflected light from the most explosive sunrise you can imagine) or water. I do recall the sky being a bit darker compared with the cloud hightlights and the highlights being a little more red/magenta, like in Joe's processing, but that's the only minor difference. People who think these colors are a result of too much PP should have been there! One other minor point, I think the bottom could be cropped a tad more.

Gorgeous Chris!

I'm late to the party Chris! It was great witnessing this scene with you! I think you did a great job putting this together. It was incredibly dark during this show and there was no easy way to "freeze" the water. Once I get to processing mine, our water will be identical. I would normally photograph the water when there was more light in the sky, but in this case the magenta cast over the landscape was so incredible I feel like it's best to use the exposure from the dramatic light. In fact, while your image looks completely natural, I think the scene had more of a magenta cast over it! The trees look fantastic, as do the peaks and clouds. I do wish the stinkin' log jam wasn't in the lower right corner, but you already knew that!

Thanks, Justin, I'm curious to see your version as they were taken simultaneously. In reviewing the RAW files, as well as how I have the scene pictured in my mind, I do agree that there was more magenta both in the sky and foreground. I think I overcompensated for that with redoing the white balance. So I reprocessed it with that in mind and also with Marc's advice to crop more off the bottom. I also used a different image of the background in the blend that has better light on the peak. It definitely looks more surreal, and has a distinct magenta cast throughout, and I even had to take the saturation down a little bit. This version is not web sharpened, so thats why it looks a little soft. I really appreciate all the feedback.