Echoes + repost

Spectacular.

Great light! I like the layers, the shafts of light streaming down, and the color. An excellent graphic quality to it.

Great color and I really like the layers in this one...nice!

Thanks guys I appreciate it!

Wow! This is awesome! I love the color and the wonderful layers. Beautiful image Peter.

Nick Bristol
Lone Rock, WI

Nice work controlling the light Peter. Beautiful color. I especially like the detail of the silhouettes in the canyon.

This is one of my favorite images I've seen from you, Peter. Just really, really nice. Those subtle layers are incredible - shooting into the light is almost always the right decision at the GC for that fact.

A couple thoughts.. it appears the image is tilted clockwise a bit, I'd maybe rotate it a smidge counterclockwise? I know that right-side plateau is perfectly level, but it's the left side that gives me that feeling.. totally just a judgement call though, as it's probably the natural incline of the landscape.

Also, with the bright stripe of sky at the top, I feel my eye gets pulled up there, when I feel like I want it to stay down at the killer layers and sunburst - maybe crop to 16:9 or 2:1 from the bottom? I'd understand not wanting to, though - since panoramic ratios can be a pain to print and display. And the colors/light up there are definitely very nice, I just feel perhaps they're a bit distracting from the real star (ha) of the show.

I'm really just nitpicking and tossing out what I might try with the image though, it could also be considered perfect as-is. Really excellent.

Meh, I don't know...couldn't you have found something a little more dramatic?

Just kidding of course. The light here is incredible and I like how it shows off the layers in the canyon. You handled the dynamic range very well and I like that you left the bright highlights and deep shadows here. Thanks for sharing this incredible moment!!

Thanks everyone!

Alex, I see what you mean with the horizon. I think the grand canyon may be the most difficult place to get the horizon line straight because there are so many shifts and subtle tilts on the plateau. I have tinkered with it, but when I try to rotate, the right side looks tilted even by half a degree. I also see what you mean with the top. Although I like the splash of blue sky and how it is lit behind the other cloud. I'll try to work on a pano crop for comparison.

Yep, I know what you mean about the GC - I had the same troubles with my shot there. The problem, I think, is that the landscape appears perfectly flat, and so you expect it to be perfectly level (even though it's actually not, in reality.)

Yup, as much as I love the grand canyon, it still proves to be the most difficult subject to capture on camera.

Here is a repost for a panoramic format as Alex suggested.

Peter, nice job controlling the exposure highlights shooting into the sun. Good light beams and interesting shafts cast across the layers capture my eye. Preference goes to the repost with Alex's crop recommendation. I find making a GC image appear level is difficult to the geological uplifts.

Thanks Doug. I like both versions, but still the original to me is my personal choice. I might try to get back up there this weekend before I leave for my extended trip. Suppose to be stormy up there.

Very nice, Peter, especially the repost, though the original is pretty darn good too. I like how this light overpowers the ultimate icon, the Grand Canyon itself. The canyon is sort of the supporting actor to this tremendous light. Really like the way you presented this.

Definitely a lifetime moment..and image.

I really like the crop with maybe just a hint more brought out of the shadows if possible. Nice catch!

Thanks Marc I appreciate it. I tried to lighten the shadows a bit but the contrast was lost a bit and some grain was starting to show at the bottom.

Really like the repost. Epic light.