Rain Pool

No suggestions, Pat. Excellent work and workmanship. This should make a fine gallery print!

This works really well in B&W. Very ominous looking sky.

Thanks you two. I appreciate the comments.

pat

Couldn't be better!
Being a Hasselblad shooter since 1972, I am very fond of Zeiss lenses. Coupling them with a D800 is about as good as it gets in DSLR's. And you have milked your equipment for everything it can do. This image is truly magnificent.

First rate, Pat. Beautiful , would love to see this printed really big. My only very slight nit is there appears to be some haloing mostly on the left side rocks, but also some on the main formations also. Could be web compression, but noticeable in the large view. Other than that, spectacular.

Thanks Michael and Gary.

Gary,
I noticed it when I did my check for dust spots in the final jpeg. It's not there until I do the save to jpeg. Even after touching it up with a brush it's recreated in the "save to web" process in Photoshop. If I save to jpeg from LR I don't get it but then I also don't get the sharpening I want. Thanks for the comment. I'm still going to need to fiddle with my black and white workflow.

Michael,
I hope to make a D810 my main camera sometime later this year. I'll keep the 800 as a backup but given that we plan to travel to the parks after Terri retires in August I think I'll want a second camera besides her Sony with the fixed 35 as a backup. I'm tough on my gear and the 100 and 50 have taken a lot. Both are first generation and not chipped but I still prefer them to any lenses I've owned and doubt that I'll ever need to replace them. I expect the 21mm to hold up as well.

pat

Pat, very very nice, the tones are beautiful, and you also captured a whole lot of drama, very nice indeed. Beautifully seen and done.
John

The reflection is top notch - really rich tones and you have nearly every shade in the spectrum from black to white. Beautiful vision

Pat, What a great looking scene in B&W! Wonderful tones and fantastic drama, then you have the reflections that are very nice. Some very nice work on this!! I like it alot.

Nick Bristol
Lone Rock, WI

And yes, a rain pool it truly is, Pat. Nice work with the B&W idea too. Amazing how the rainwater and all these sandstone areas around Moab seem to go together. This is an excellent example of that type of neat viewing it can provide. Very nice.....

Dang, this is just pure B&W sweetness, Pat!

This works all the way around--Print it big!

--P

Many thanks for the comments.

Preston,

It's your scaffolding with the addition of TK's cloud sharpening on the clouds and water and a slight "make it glow" (Orton), then fine tuning the midtones again. Then conversion in NIK's Silver Efex. Thanks for the tutelage. I appreciate it.

pat

Beautiful Pat! This has so much depth to it that it almost appears to be 3D. A lovely scene.

Thanks Bill. I think it's mostly the lens. Still learning to use a wide angle but a good lens certainly makes it easier.

pat

Well that's pretty dramatic. You certainly got some good conditions and made the most of them.

Pat: Good capture of a unique moment and a view few will have of this place. Nice work on the conversion.>=))>