Arches National Park - DPChallenge Forums

Canon EF-S 55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS

11/06/2004 08:11:19 PM · #1

I finally got a few more of my photos finished from my winter trek to Arches National Park. I'd love some comments, especially on color, since my sweet wife isn't here to color-check me:

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And here are a few you might have already seen:

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When you come out to Utah, let me know and I'll show you around!

Cam

Sony DSC-F717

11/06/2004 08:23:04 PM · #2

WOW, those are just incredible !

Canon EOS-60D

11/06/2004 08:57:35 PM · #3

What a beautiful place, and you captured the colors and textures so remarkably!!!!!

I adore them all, but I really love

the most.

The colors look wonderful. The very first appears on my monitor to be a tad red, but that's probably my monitor and not you. Wonderful shots. I am in awe! :O)

Nikon AF-S DX NIKKOR 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR II

11/06/2004 09:57:46 PM · #4

Originally posted by laurielblack:

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The colors look wonderful. The very first appears on my monitor to be a tad red, but that's probably my monitor and not you. Wonderful shots. I am in awe! :O)

Would that red be due to the fact that the stone itself is very red at sunset, or does it look like it might be a Photoshop thing? Fiddling around with contrast changes colors, often enough that I can't detect anything wrong.

dacrazyrn

Nikon D300

11/06/2004 10:04:29 PM · #5

I also think that it looks a little too much on the red side for that type of rock (even with sunset). Just going off all of the same I have seen in the canyons and there at Arches.
Great shots, no matter what!!!! I may have to swing up through (Muley Point I think), after my Dad's Memorial service on the 20th (in Gallup, NM). He wants his ashes spread at Muley Point near Mexican Hat, UT. So, I am going to get some shots form there.

puma

Canon EOS-10D

Tamron AF 28-300mm f/3.5-6.3 XR Di LD Aspherical IF for Canon

11/06/2004 11:06:25 PM · #6

Kid's did a get job with the flashlight on the bush in balanced rock

Message edited by author 2004-11-06 23:07:22.

Sigma 28-105mm f/2.8-4.0 Aspherical for Canon

11/07/2004 12:31:04 AM · #7

Originally posted by dacrazyrn:

This sounds like an ambiguous trip. Sorry to hear of your father's death; I imagine this trip could be of the bittersweet variety?

Message edited by author 2004-11-07 00:31:20.

Rooster

Canon EOS-400D Rebel XTi

11/07/2004 12:49:25 AM · #8

holy crap those are some GERRRRATE SHOTS! EVERY TIME I SEE YOUR NEW WORK (oops sorry about the caps..) I add you to my fave fotog list only to realise you're already on it.

Are those natural colours or do you increase saturation b4 shooting.

Man, I wanna be just like you when I grow up!
great stuff! thanks for sharing!

Nikon AF-S DX NIKKOR 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR II

11/07/2004 01:11:09 AM · #9

Originally posted by Rooster:

Hey Rooster, sorry. You can't be like me when you grow up. To do this you'd have to become male. Sorry.

As to your question of natural colours, I hope I've represented natural colours there!

With a shot like this one:

it's easy to get natural colors because the sun is behind me and the sky is similar in tone to the rocks.

With a shot like this one, however:

, it's a little trickier, because if I expose just for the cliff face, the sky will be totally blown out, and I happen to like the sky. So I underexposed that one. Of course, I had intended that one for b/w in the first place. In lightening the rocks, colors can get weird, so the comments about color are helpful. That's the most drastic one I had to deal with. The others should pretty much be okay. The one where I'm looking down on that knoll or butte was similar in that I had to underexpose so I could get some sky detail, but it wasn't as drastic as the other.

But generally, yes. These are colors of Utah's deserts. Cool, huh!

dacrazyrn

Nikon D300

11/07/2004 03:49:58 AM · #10

Originally posted by dsidwell:

But generally, yes. These are colors of Utah's deserts. Cool, huh!

That is why I LOVE th place!!

And thanks David. It is bittersweet. But he is better off now without all that pain. Thanks again.

Message edited by author 2004-11-07 03:51:15.

Flash

Nikon D700

Nikon AF-S Nikkor 17-35mm f/2.8D IF-ED

11/07/2004 09:17:11 AM · #11

Originally posted by dsidwell:

I finally got a few more of my photos finished from my winter trek to Arches National Park. I'd love some comments, especially on color, since my sweet wife isn't here to color-check me:

. . . .

. . . .

And here are a few you might have already seen:

. . . .

When you come out to Utah, let me know and I'll show you around!

Great work. More reasons why Utah is on my "must shoot" destinations list.

soup

Canon EOS-30D