River of Light

Gallery: LandscapePosted May 25, 2012614 views18 comments

Another image from Cape Royal on the Grand Canyon's North Rim, taken a couple hours later than the last one I posted.

Since finishing this image, I've never been totally happy with the color I ended up with. I do like the composition and light, however - so I'll probably reprocess this one soon, once I feel up to the task of blending again.

This is a blend of 3 exposures - one for the sky, one for the sun spilling over the landscape, and one for the rest of the landscape with my finger blocking the sun, as the 17-55 was flaring quite badly.

Tony Kuyper, this should give you a good idea of the scene I pulled my last image from - it wasn't as telephoto as you might think.

Canon 40D, EF-S 17-55mm f/2.8

Comments

18 comments

Comment posted by Philip Hodgkins on May 25, 2012 at 10:12 AM

Very well put together and processed. Not having been there, I don't know the color you are searching for, but I would be very happy with this! It is natural and believable. Be careful not to talk yourself into over processing. All too easily done!

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Comment posted by John Mumaw on May 25, 2012 at 10:20 AM

As much as I liked your last posting from here, this is simply magnificent. You were blessed with good conditions during your visit. The composition with the side canyon in that particular position is exquisite! Your 'development' is nearly flawless. as well.
I understand your concern about color, although I don't think that it's too far off at all. Hopefully, it's something you can tweak with the current master file.
Anyway, this is one of the best GC images I've seen in some time.

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Comment posted by Nancy Lea Sandy on May 25, 2012 at 10:26 AM

I think this is a keeper. The wash of light over the canyon is just about perfect and the details are wonderful. Very nicely done

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Comment posted by Rick Goldwasser on May 25, 2012 at 11:32 AM

Pretty much echoing what John said, this is gorgeous! My only suggestion would be to see what a crop to just above the flat top of the cloud just left of center would look like - there's a bit too much of that bright, featureles sky at the top. Really nice work!

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Comment posted by Jared Warren on May 25, 2012 at 11:33 AM

Gorgeous! Excellent capture of the light - I think the color looks great. Beautiful composition and execution of the blending.

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Comment posted by Ken Smith on May 25, 2012 at 2:22 PM

Gorgeous! Enchanting light ...masterly handled. Could not comment on colors. The rt to left composition balance is probably impossible to consider...and as is, this is magnificant. (oddly...when I opened this my first impression was that it had a slight left leaning CCW tilt... could it be my stigmatism with the monitor and seating posture? ...but, then I started thinking about the cliffs on rt side and horizon...and left to rt comp balance as the reason for my gut reaction...just sayin...not saying it is anything beyond a subjective gut response)

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Comment posted by Robert Dayton on May 25, 2012 at 4:50 PM

Awesome, Alex! I've never seen the Canyon like this. Well compose and great light.

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Comment posted by Fabio Giarrizzo on May 25, 2012 at 5:10 PM

Great job with lighting, perfect exposure and awesome colors on this image- Surely a skillful processing job as well- My congrats, Fabio

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Comment posted by Walt Sterneman on May 25, 2012 at 5:50 PM

I agree with the others Alex. Awesome image. Nice job!

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Comment posted by Richard Teller on May 25, 2012 at 6:22 PM

This is a good an image of the Grand Canyon that I have seen. I like every thing about the image. The color, composition, light, it is just a beautiful and well executed image.

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Comment posted by Nick Bristol on May 25, 2012 at 7:27 PM

Really nice, Alex! What a beautiful scene.

Nick Bristol
Lone Rock, WI

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Comment posted by Jean Day on May 25, 2012 at 7:42 PM

Fabulous comp and the detail and colors are stunning! Very nice work.

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Comment posted by Reed Bowman on May 25, 2012 at 8:21 PM

Alex, great depth and I love the texture of the valley floor...excellent blend

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Comment posted by Tony Kuyper on May 25, 2012 at 11:05 PM

I like this quite well, Alex. It feels interpretive colorwise, but that's OK with me. The sky looks real and the canyon looks artistic. The image works, and that's what matters. I do see what you're talking about here. Looks like plenty of textures and shapes even at less-than-telephoto focal lengths.

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Comment posted by Abdulla Bin Touq on May 26, 2012 at 2:38 AM

Alex I love this image of what detail it prevails. It give you a moment to stop and look into how magnificent this composition is and the right timing to capture it.

Well done.

Abdulla

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Comment posted by Jude Haase on May 26, 2012 at 9:20 AM

Beautiful!!

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Comment posted by dean hebert on May 26, 2012 at 12:57 PM

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Comment posted by Tom Hilton on May 26, 2012 at 4:32 PM

Alex... take a look at my "Yaki Point Storm" post.. to see if it's not the reverse of this vies .. from the South Rim...
Mine was shot on 5-8-2012

BTW I love your image...
Well done...

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