The Way

Excellent job at processing Harry. If you could lighten the darkest parts of the middle of both sides of the walls it would help a little. Awesome work!

Michael

Yeah, I could see cropping some of the rocks, but it's the part of the image consumed by that large dark space throughout the upper right is what takes up too much space to my eye. I'm not sure there's a better way to crop/present this one.

Ideally, I'd like to go dark to light in a scene like this for an cohesive flow to the comp. The brightness at the bottom does grab the eye a bit. It does give more sense of place too.

Harry, The negative space created by the two dark walls is a little much for me. If you could pull some more detail out of the shadows I think it would help. I do like the colour of the rocks up front, it gives the eye something to study, also I like the juxtaposition between the small rocks and the enormous rock walls. Everything else looks tip top, hope this helps.Cheers

Michael - I did a quick job to open up the shadows a bit - any more and I would probably need to go back to the RAW to limit noise there. Marc, I see how the dark to light keeps the eye moving through the image instead of stalling. I must have been hoping that the water and light sand would pul the eye along!

Nice Harry. I actually like the black, dark area - it helps to highlight the "way". In this digital age, the madness to get all the details in all the areas killing this kind of photogrpahy - lovely shot

Love the line through this (rocks through stream all the way to the back) but also not a huge fan of the negative space by that wall in the URC. Not sure if you have many options, which is a shame, b/c I like the scene a lot? I do like the repost, but think it's not quite "there", but can't really offer any direction but to maybe shoot again under better conditions.

I just really like this comp. The dark walls sort of add to the foreboding character of the frame.

I would add that negative space has always been part of photography when used in complimentary fashion. That at least, is no different today.

Of all the more understated images from here, I like this one a lot.I say understated because it doesn't have the intense orange light on the canyon walls. I like the comp, and the color contrasts. The soft orange light in the back in nice.

Chris