Taken while on vacation at the Grand Canyon. I stayed in the Village, but got up at 4:30 am to drive the 26 miles around the rim to Desert View for sunrise. Fortunately, I missed the elk which was bigger than my car.
Taken on a tripod with a circular filter; Adjusted the levels in Photoshop, resized, and sharpened for the web.
Post-Challenge: This is my second entry into a Free Style entry. This competition is really tough, but thank you for your suggestions. I have so much to learn about using a digital camera with manual features that it will be a long learning curve.
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3 - Just can't see how such a large expanse could have been this 'sloped'/tilted. Apologies if wrong, but this really looks like it needs straightening (in post processing at least). A tweaking of what looks like a nice range of colors, to bring them out more, may also have lifted this. A more refined crop, especially bottom right (else included more as an element if it was good (and you had it, obviously)), also make this better in my opinion.
Grand Canyon is absolutely wonderful. However, there's not much "pop" to this photo. I think maybe you thought, "I have a bit of pink light on the cliffs there, that will wow 'em". If there was a later shot with more light on the mesa, I'd like to see it - but there might have been too many clouds in front of the sun.
Beautiful image. A couple suggestions- might bump up the midtones in levels just to bring out a little more detail in the rocks. Also maybe a slight clockwise rotation. Not sure if the ridge in the background is actually horizontal instead of sloped, but for the photograph's composition it might help to use that ridgeline as gauge for a level horizon line- to reduce the effect of eyes sliding to the left. 7
I see these shots all the time, and there's no other way to say it but you just missed on this shot. The sky is over exposed, while the middle ground and foreground are under exposed. a ND filter would certainly help your cause, as well as bracketing. A different time of day also would help a great deal. Good luck.
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