Mystery Rock
by bryanbrazil

Comment by Neil:
Fantastic image and postprocesing Bryan. Great scene, light, and use of the Canon 10-22 lens for depth! Congratulations!

Mystery Rock
by bryanbrazil

Comment by aKiwi:
Excellent picture. Congratulations on beating me.

Fannette Island
by bryanbrazil

Comment by bryanbrazil:
You're totally right, I thought about that after uploading, but never got around to fixing it. Thanks for the constructive comment!

Originally posted by Bear_Music: Nicely seen. You have a problem in that you've thrown the sky to magenta but you didn't pick that up in the reflection, so it's especially unnatural looking. The very foreground feels too bright to me also, it's leading my eye down and out. I'd have tossed a gradient on there to contain it and force my eyes into the distance of this remarkable scene.

Mystery Rock
by bryanbrazil

Comment by whiteroom:
good start for our team. woohoo, congrats.

Mystery Rock
by bryanbrazil

Comment by bryanbrazil:
Yeah, the road is pretty bad, although right now all the roads in Death Valley have recently been graded and are in the best condition they've been in years. I didn't get any flats on the road, but I did spend several hours helping some people from New York that got two flat tires in their rental 4X4. They never did make it to the Racetrack! Incidentally, after making it back to the paved road, I got a flat tire after about a mile. It was just a nail and not a rock puncture, so my tire was OK. I guess there really is such a thing as karma!

Originally posted by mpeters: Oops, i tried to edit but site went wacky. Anyway, nice shot. Is that road not straight out of !#!$#@$? Hope you took spare tire(s) ;)

Mystery Rock
by bryanbrazil

Comment by Nuzzer:
Fantastic shot! Great idea on posting the RAW file - what a great way to learn how the winners do things.

Mystery Rock
by bryanbrazil

Comment by mpeters:

Originally posted by bryanbrazil: No fisheye here. I was using my 10-22 about a foot from the rock. Originally posted by mpeters: Congrats. This place is so unbelievably flat that the fisheye provides a great dynamic.

Oops, i tried to edit but site went wacky. Anyway, nice shot. Is that road not straight out of !#!$#@$? Hope you took spare tire(s) ;)

Mystery Rock
by bryanbrazil

Comment by Pug-H:
man, that is so awesome. and very cool post-processing. congratulations on the bLue

Mystery Rock
by bryanbrazil

Comment by bryanbrazil:
No fisheye here. I was using my 10-22 about a foot from the rock.

Originally posted by mpeters: Congrats. This place is so unbelievably flat that the fisheye provides a great dynamic.

Mystery Rock
by bryanbrazil

Comment by mpeters:
Congrats. This place is so unbelievably flat that the fisheye provides a great dynamic.