A Royal Gathering

Gallery: LandscapePosted September 4, 2014271 views7 comments

I had a great Labor Day weekend meeting up with Doug Koepsel, Karl Buiter, Peter Coskun and others at the North Rim of the Grand Canyon. Forecasts were for very clear skies but we lucked out two of the three nights with a nice display of clouds for sunset. This image is from Cape Royal- possibly the best vista on the rim.

1 second exposure @ f/22,10mm (aps-c), Grad ND. SEE LARGE VERSION

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Comment posted by Ronald Murphy on September 4, 2014 at 2:57 PM

Beautiful moment captured. On my monitor it's a little dark down there in the valley.

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Comment posted by Kathy Barnhart on September 4, 2014 at 7:46 PM

Wonderful moment, and the darkness looks very natural to my eye. The flowers in the FG add some nice interest and those clouds are gorgeous.

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Comment posted by Bob Miller on September 4, 2014 at 9:44 PM

Thanks Ron & Kathy. Yes, is is a tad dark in the canyon but I didn't want to bring up the shadows more otherwise I feel that the balance would be too unnatural.

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Comment posted by Jared Warren on September 5, 2014 at 3:13 PM

I like the dark presentation. Very well captured and processed. The color looks wonderful.

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Comment posted by gary phillips on September 5, 2014 at 3:50 PM

Very nice, Doug. I think it might be a little dark, but pretty darn sweet as is.

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Comment posted by Doug Koepsel on September 5, 2014 at 4:42 PM

Bob, shooting the canyon into the sunset or sunrise is hard as the canyon acts like a black hole. That was a nice sunset. You may have been able to use f/11 at 10mm with the crop sensor and still get the depth of field needed and not have the diffraction of f/22

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Comment posted by Bill Reid on September 6, 2014 at 11:52 AM

Very nice comp and colors in this Bob and a very nice foreground also. Seems a bit dark to me but it's about what you prefer. Very nicely done image.

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