UT-24 Highway scene

Gallery: LandscapePosted March 26, 2015348 views12 comments

Hi, I'm an amateur photographer from Brazil. This shot was in 2011 when I had just bought my Canon EOS 60D. It's an old pic but the day traveling from Bryce Canyon NP to Arches NP was unforgiven. So many stops to shoot that this one was taken at sunset just after the Capitol Reef NP (mid of the way...). Wish I can go back soon and spend much more time there.

All C&C are welcome.
Better resolution at https://www.flickr.com/photos/101419550@N04/16914283346/

Canon EOS 60D
EF-S18-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS
ƒ/5.0 (crazy aperture, today I'd use up to f/11)
44.0 mm 1/40

Comments

12 comments

Comment posted by Patricia Brundage on March 27, 2015 at 8:10 AM

Welcome to NPN Lucinei. The scene shows the scale of the rock wall by including the tree and the foreground. Very pleasing to view. I look forward to you next post..

Registered on March 23, 2006, 1111 Posts, 6531 Comments

Comment posted by Igor Doncov on March 27, 2015 at 10:07 AM

Welcome to NPN Lucinei. You've picked a great subject for your first post. Many of the more advanced photographers here have made some great images shooting those eroded cliffs. Aside from the general picture I like those dark thistles scattered throughout the grassy area. They add interest to that layer of your composition.

Registered on November 22, 2014, 189 Posts, 2733 Comments

Comment posted by Roel Wijtmans on March 27, 2015 at 12:53 PM

Awesome patterns in the rocks, and I like the tree as an anchoring point. My only suggestion would be cropping out the patch of air, but this is very nice as is!

Registered on September 30, 2012, 116 Posts, 2257 Comments

Comment posted by Mark Seaver on March 27, 2015 at 6:26 PM

Welcome to NPN, Lucinei. I'm really enjoying the contrast between the grassy field plus tree against those wonderfully sharp eroded cliffs behind. With this size view, I can't see that anything is going soft due to using f/5. This is a good look at both this field and the eroded cliffs. I've made that Arches to Bryce trip in a day and it's a lot of driving through some wonderful scenery. Yes, the bit of sky would be much nicer were it a darker blue and this might work well if it were cropped out, but I think having that band of darker stone show near the top is important.

Registered on January 23, 2011, 1103 Posts, 17270 Comments

Comment posted by Bill Leggett on March 27, 2015 at 8:52 PM

Welcome to NPN, Lucinei. That area along Utah 24 is a favorite destination for me. I agree that the sky is not doing it any favors, but maybe panning left and zooming in a bit to crop some of the foreground would have more impact.

Registered on July 21, 2004, 706 Posts, 3233 Comments

Comment posted by Lucinei Stadnik on March 28, 2015 at 1:58 AM

Thanks for all the comments! Really appreciate and agree with them. I had some difficult to crop the image and dont lose important parts of it. So, I've tryed to fill that bright area by clonning... What do you think about that?

Registered on March 26, 2015, 6 Posts, 7 Comments

Comment posted by Dietrich Gloger on March 28, 2015 at 6:44 AM

Hi, welcome!
I like the subject and how you composed it. The light and colors are particularly nice.
I also agree with the others to remove the white sky. Your re-work solves the problem, but the cloning work almost looks like a sky pasted into the image.

Registered on January 26, 2007, 360 Posts, 9876 Comments

Comment posted by Alberto Patiño on March 28, 2015 at 1:13 PM

I agree that the patch of sky is a bit too bright, but I don't think that the cloning solution is an improvement - I'd keep the original, which has some good strengths, in the composition and color palette. And welcome to NPN!!

Registered on December 2, 2014, 278 Posts, 1736 Comments

Comment posted by Richard Teller on March 29, 2015 at 5:18 PM

Your reworked image is much stronger image. the bright sky drew my eye to it. Nice color and the tree adds a nice anchor point to the image

Registered on August 23, 2010, 1162 Posts, 6692 Comments

Comment posted by Bill Fach on March 29, 2015 at 9:43 PM

Lucinei: Welcome to NPN and thanks for a fine first post. Really nice light and I like your comp. My only suggestion would be to crop to about 5:4 from the right edge to eliminate the small corner of sky and completely fill the frame with the hillside. Great to have you aboard and looking forward to more. >=))>

Registered on November 1, 2003, 1805 Posts, 26981 Comments

Comment posted by John Williams on March 31, 2015 at 9:16 PM

What Bill said! Awesome image with the right cropped off. Welcome!!

Registered on September 6, 2007, 221 Posts, 5985 Comments

Comment posted by gary phillips on April 1, 2015 at 2:53 AM

Welcome aboard, Lucinie. I've driven by and photographed this scene many times and I never grow tired of it. One of my favorite places in the world. Crop from the right to lose the sky and you have winner. Looking forward to more.

Registered on October 24, 2013, 185 Posts, 4136 Comments