Arch Rock

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Posted by Richard Olsen on March 11, 2011 at 3:52 PM

Here's a night photo I took of Arch Rock, Valley of Fire just after the recent rains. The arch light was augmented with a flashlight to reduce the exposure time.

So, guys and gals....what do you think?

Canon 7D
Canon10-22 @17mm
f8 61sec exp

Posted by Pam Colander on March 11, 2011 at 5:41 PM

I really love the comp and your lighting effects here Richard. Good job! I can see some haloing along the inner and outer edges of the main formation, noise in the sky, and overall it looks pretty soft. Did you sharpen this at all and what ISO did you use? I would probably remove the star blips if it were mine.

Posted by Koveh Tavakkol on March 11, 2011 at 5:45 PM

Sweet shot Richard, I like the comp. Some good advice from Pam above. Also I would tone down the red saturation just a tad.

Posted by John Mumaw on March 11, 2011 at 7:09 PM

Very creative! I also like the composition and the lighting effects.
Pam nailed my concerns, and you might also consider losing that bit of rock on the left above the arch and brightening the entire pond below to showcase that reflection.

Posted by Todd Caudle on March 11, 2011 at 9:17 PM

Ditto Pam.

Posted by Morris McClung on March 11, 2011 at 10:14 PM

Way cool.

Posted by Russ Shugart on March 12, 2011 at 2:21 AM

Richard

This is amazing! Beautiful and other worldly at the same time. Great stuff on your WEB site too.

Russ
www.AlpineGalleria.com

Posted by Kurt Bowman on March 12, 2011 at 11:08 AM

I love the comp on this! Hard to see with this size, but the sky looks to have some noise in it and while I am okay with the amount of the sky, it really compounds when I look at the pond at the sky reflected in the pond looks grainy to me. That is really my only nit, everything else about this is awesome!

Posted by Stan Rose on March 14, 2011 at 8:35 AM

Cool! My only gripe is it looks OOF.