Posted by Doug Koepsel on February 1, 2011 at 6:09 PM
The final location of my Paria ramblings was Stud Horse Pont above Lake Powell. There was a nice break to the west in the clouds of an oncoming front, so a colorful sunset occured. The evening progressed from dark overcast, to lighter clouds, then some golds, and finalized with a light pink.
Posted by Doug Koepsel on February 1, 2011 at 6:12 PM
#2 Edge of the Clouds
Posted by Doug Koepsel on February 1, 2011 at 6:18 PM
#3
A little pink near sunset's end.
Posted by Doug Koepsel on February 1, 2011 at 6:19 PM
#4
The Torch.
Posted by Doug Koepsel on February 1, 2011 at 6:26 PM
#5
Similar to the vantage of #2, but more gold in the sky a few minutes later. A bright gold cloud directly overhead gave a color cast to the rock.
Posted by John Mumaw on February 1, 2011 at 7:37 PM
You sure were blessed with some sweet light! My favorites are #'s 3 & 5 primarily due to the beautiful cloudscape.
Just a couple of thoughts...I think you could punch up the saturation a bit without it looking like fantasyland, and the foregrounds on those two in particular look pretty bright relative to the time of day.
Well done, Doug! I think you scored well on this trip.
Posted by Dan Walters on February 1, 2011 at 8:20 PM
That's a very nice and varied set. Good comps in all of them and the sky in the last one is great. Excellent work. There are some halos showing up around the rock formations on my monitor. This could be from compression. You didn't mention if any were blends, and I find I can get halos in blends, or if I use the shadow recovery slider, oversharpening, or just from compression.
Posted by Doug Koepsel on February 2, 2011 at 10:35 AM
Thank you all for the comments.
John, I will revisit the brightness and saturation. I had bumped up the brightness and contrast right before posting #5.
Morris. These are all single images. I took #5 and went back to the full sized image before downsizing for the web, and the halos were not present. I then resized this original to 720pixels, and then resharpened as I did before. It was with the resharpening that the halo appeared, so I will check the resharpening for the web more closely in the future. When I first started processing last year, I was overzealous on the shadow/highlight sliders and got halos.
As an aside, I have not purchased a calibration tool, so these are processed on an uncalibrated monitor (HP ZR22w) How do they look to those of you with calibrated monitors?
Posted by Rod Chandler on February 2, 2011 at 11:35 AM
Wonderful conditions. Great captures.
Posted by Don Grall on February 2, 2011 at 12:26 PM
Excellent series!
Posted by John Mumaw on February 2, 2011 at 2:31 PM
They look pretty good on my calibrated monitor. Try making a print and see how it compares to your monitor. That'll let you know how in tune your monitor is.
Discussion
17 repliesPreferences, critiques, suggestion and, nits welcome.
#1 Lit Against the Darker Skies
A little pink near sunset's end.
The Torch.
Similar to the vantage of #2, but more gold in the sky a few minutes later. A bright gold cloud directly overhead gave a color cast to the rock.
Just a couple of thoughts...I think you could punch up the saturation a bit without it looking like fantasyland, and the foregrounds on those two in particular look pretty bright relative to the time of day.
Well done, Doug! I think you scored well on this trip.
John, I will revisit the brightness and saturation. I had bumped up the brightness and contrast right before posting #5.
Morris. These are all single images. I took #5 and went back to the full sized image before downsizing for the web, and the halos were not present. I then resized this original to 720pixels, and then resharpened as I did before. It was with the resharpening that the halo appeared, so I will check the resharpening for the web more closely in the future. When I first started processing last year, I was overzealous on the shadow/highlight sliders and got halos.
As an aside, I have not purchased a calibration tool, so these are processed on an uncalibrated monitor (HP ZR22w) How do they look to those of you with calibrated monitors?