Zion National Park - Watchman
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10/18/09 10:58 AM
10/18/09 10:58 AM
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Arizona
daveman
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Arizona
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We just returned from a camping trip at Zion. What a great place for a trip - hiking and photographing. I thought I would post a few. 1. This is from a fairly common location of Watchman. 2. Another one of Watchman 3. Me and my boys hiking up the narrows... 4. A little fall color. Thanks for looking - constructive comments always appreciated.
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Re: Zion National Park - Watchman
[Re: daveman]
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10/21/09 11:56 PM
10/21/09 11:56 PM
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Manhattan, New York, New York
James Morrissey
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Hey Guys,
I look forward to seeing them when you are finished with the photos. I am in a place with Internet today...which is nice. I am still at Bryce Canyon. Bryce is out of this world beautiful - honestly, I have never seen anything like it. I am having a dickens of a time though getting shots in focus due to the cold...mostly a result of hand-holding the ND grad and trying to eliminate any appearance of a line.
This morning, I was at the aptly named Sunrise Point. It was amazing. LOL, tonight I was at Sunset Point. The weather had gotten overcast and it looked like snow. However, the sun did break through and I was able to grab about 60 seconds of sunset. I THINK that I may have gotten a couple. Again, the problem being slow shutter speeds and motion blur - this is with a tripod and a really good head. It has been FREEZING. The winds were wicked - and we are up about 8500 feet. The temp was in the mid to high 20s this morning and the wind chill made my hands absolutely numb (even with just the short time I had them out of my gloves).
If I got 3 good shots today, I will be happy.
James
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Re: Zion National Park - Watchman
[Re: daveman]
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10/22/09 12:23 PM
10/22/09 12:23 PM
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Joined: Sep 2005
Portland Oregon
RomanJohnston
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Portland Oregon
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Got the files.....and will start working on them....but I have to give you one warning....part of my workflow is kinda a secret. The basics that I PP the RAW file I will be happy to give you. Will even send you the side car files which will show you everything I did. Just throw it in the folder along with the .nef file and it should show you the changes automaticly when you open it in ACR.
Will post the end product first....then we can talk a bit.
Here is the first one, will work on the one with the blend next (which I will use the techniques spelled out on my tutorial on this site for blends for Dynamic Range)
Roman
Last edited by RomanJohnston; 10/22/09 12:27 PM.
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Re: Zion National Park - Watchman
[Re: RomanJohnston]
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10/22/09 12:52 PM
10/22/09 12:52 PM
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Joined: Sep 2005
Portland Oregon
RomanJohnston
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Portland Oregon
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And here is the 2nd one.
NOTE: This is all from the darker file they were not taken from the same angle (IE bright and dark one taken from the same spot on a tripod) so was forced to choose one and chose the one with the sky detail in the shot. So the darker forground area is full of noise which would be hard to recover from but should make an ok smaller print (like 12 x 18" etc)
If you had taken this shot with a tripod and exposed 100% corretcly for foreground and one after for sky, this could have turned into quite a gallery quality print. Now...dont start kicking yourself...lol...its all part of the learning experience. On the good side, your compositions are REALLY starting to improve....these two shots are very nice.
I have full sized files I will try to send back to you.
Roman
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