Glacier Slot Canyon

Gallery: LandscapePosted October 8, 2012988 views16 comments

This is 2 exposures blended together using my advanced Photoshop tonality control and multiple exposure blending techniques. I produced a video detailing these techniques, it's available here: Advanced Photoshop Tonality Control Video

This was taken 3 weeks ago while scouting for the Glacier workshop I co-lead with my good friend David Cobb. David puts on awesome workshops. I'll be assisting David with several more workshops in 2013. You can see his scheduled workshops for next year here: http://www.nwphotoworkshops.com/calendar.php

Cheers

Comments

16 comments

Comment posted by Bill Chambers on October 8, 2012 at 4:49 PM

Wow! Love it Zack. I love the sculpted nature of the rocks and the vibrant color of the lichen/moss. Absolutely beautiful.

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Comment posted by Nick Bristol on October 8, 2012 at 5:07 PM

Zack, This is really an interesting image, and so very nice! What a fantastic looking place and the colors are amazing. I like this alot!

Nick Bristol
Lone Rock, WI

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Comment posted by Dennis Harding on October 8, 2012 at 6:29 PM

This is a very nice image Zack.....the colors are great. Your technique obviously works very well.

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Comment posted by Yiming Hu on October 8, 2012 at 8:04 PM

Very unique colors and shapes. Well done.

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Comment posted by Robert Dayton on October 8, 2012 at 8:20 PM

A great find. Zack. Wonderful color, shapes, and formations. I would like to walk the banks
of this waterway for a long time.Thank you for sharing the technique.

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Comment posted by Bob Miller on October 8, 2012 at 11:32 PM

The swirls keep me spinning in the foreground until I step back and enjoy the totality of the scene.

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Comment posted by Chad Merrell on October 9, 2012 at 12:40 AM

Whatever your techniques were they worked! Very nice image.

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Comment posted by Kah Kit Yoong on October 9, 2012 at 6:20 AM

Amazing scene and a great composition.

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Comment posted by Philip Schwarz on October 9, 2012 at 9:48 AM

Love the colors and the comp.

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Comment posted by Harry Lichtman on October 9, 2012 at 11:18 AM

Pretty cool looking formations from Glacier. Looks a bit bright to me and cuts down on the mystery of this canyon. Maybe darkening a little would help for me. Very unique for glacier.

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Comment posted by Zack Schnepf on October 9, 2012 at 12:10 PM

Harry, thanks for the feedback. I agree it should be dark, it adds to the mystery. My monitor is calibrated for my printer (Epson 7900), on my monitor and in print it actually looks a little dark, which is just the way I want it look.

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Comment posted by Harry Lichtman on October 9, 2012 at 4:07 PM

Hey Zack - I agree yo base the image on the finished print, since that is wehre it really matters. Looks like you may have stitched several together wide angles or cropped the original? When I was there 2 years ago, I remember walking on the edge of avalache creek? and carved rocked very much like this.It was raining and not the time for me to go exploring

Glad you did

I will have to check your video, as I am always loooking for better/easier/more natural ways to blend exposures. You seem to have it down.

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Comment posted by Tony Kuyper on October 9, 2012 at 10:12 PM

This is really beautiful. Really love this comp and the colors and contrast are perfect.

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Comment posted by Zack Schnepf on October 9, 2012 at 10:14 PM

Thanks Tony. Harry, right you are, when that rock gets wet it's slick as ice.

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Comment posted by Jon LaBass on October 10, 2012 at 9:04 AM

It's a nice composition, but I think the canyon walls are unnaturally bright - they don't fit with the light in the background. Perhaps you could post a version a little closer to what the printed version looks like.

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Comment posted by Zack Clothier on October 10, 2012 at 8:02 PM

I don't think I've ever seen a composition like this from here before, congrats on the originality. The light is very nice as well.

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