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One more from Colorado National Monument

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Posted by Russ Shugart on July 18, 2011 at 12:30 AM
One more from Colorado National Monument
Couldn't get out this weekend. Had to help my kid look for a car. So what else to do but process something I've already taken. Comments always appreciated.

Russ
www.AlpineGalleria.com
Posted by Jack Garrett on July 18, 2011 at 12:40 AM
You are officially dubbed the CNM expert! Great image with color, depth and good use of available light.
Posted by Howard Cihak on July 18, 2011 at 12:51 PM
Russ, I agree with Jack's comment. I trust your print of this image is sharp; the post looks soft, perhaps due to the posting process.
Posted by Paul Martin on July 18, 2011 at 2:36 PM
Exceptional image, Russ. I can image how good this will look printed.
Posted by Morris McClung on July 18, 2011 at 7:27 PM
I like the pano comp you have and the light is so nice. Excellent detail in the foreground and shadows. There looks like there is a slight halo along the ridgeline on my monitor, but that could just be my monitor. Wait for others to comment if they see it. Beauty of a shot.
Posted by John Mumaw on July 18, 2011 at 7:39 PM
A panorama (or pano. crop) was the perfect way to capture this scene! I see the halo that Morris is referring to...hopefully it's just a resizing/sharpening artifact. May also be the natural light on that faraway ridge, but I would fix it to lessen the distraction.
Posted by Russ Shugart on July 18, 2011 at 8:48 PM
Thanks for the input everybody. I checked the raw file and the halo looks like it's a combination of haze and the fact that the far horizon is in shadow. I should be able to mitigate it with a little more post processing.

On the sharpening I am still working on the right sharpening for this camera, a D3X. The D200 that I still have seemed much more straight forward to apply sharpening. I have been using a recommendation I got here, for posting here, to shrink the image to around 2000 pixels or slightly less, apply filter->sharpen once or maybe twice and then shrink to around 700 pixels. It usually still looks soft to me when I post it but for each successive filter->sharpen the picture looks lighter. Anyway here's a crop of the full sized shot and it almost looks too sharp!

Russ
www.AlpineGalleria.com