Canyon Light

Please click on the photo itself to view the LARGER version, which is worth it!

I took this photo on a very overcast and blah day at the Canyon. I

lucked out and had a break in the clouds. What do you guys think?

Beautiful! The color is wonderful. I am slightly disturbed that the right side is so dark - perhaps it could have been cropped by looking more to the left in the original landscape.

... incredible detail in the dark areas on the right. This turned into quite a magical shot, thanks for posting.

Beautiful shot, waiting for the light is always, (well almost always) worth it, at least is was in this case.

The light is good under a difficult exposure condition...though I feel some of the highlights are overexposed.

It was a very dark, overcast, cold, and gloomy day when I took the photo. I had planned to set up my tripod carefully and take many exposure bracketed shots so I could come back and do an HDR image and also some panaromas. Well, it ended up being below freezing when we got there. Las Vegas was in the 80 deg. F range and the canyon was so much colder than I had expected, so I didn't properly plan for it. I didn't have good gloves, so I could not set up the tripod. I had to hastily snap away these photos. I shot RAW and exposed to the right to capture shadow detail. This photo was a quick edit. I need to go back and work some Photoshop magic to bring out all the details. But the dynamic range was so large in this photo, it was difficult to get both the bright left side and dark right side properly exposed without resorting to HDR with multiple exposures.

After looking at the comments about dark right side and blown highlights on the left, I brought this image up on a good color/contrast/black/white calibrated monitor and on it I can see detail in both the deep shadows on the right and in the highlighted area on the left. The only place that info is seemingly lacking is in the darkest portion on the top right, but I am sure I could bring that out with some post processing work.

 

I think the comments are more due to improperly calibrated monitors more than the actual photo.

 

What do you guys think?

I have a perfectly calibrated monitor and it still looks amazing to me... What a perfect day you found in the Grand Canyon, and very unusual too! Great work for catching such a beautiful spot of light coming out of nowhere! Beautiful colors and contrast, looks like God's light that reaches Hell!

wow! what an amazing landscape. you captured this superbly.

like a dream. .

Beautiful Landscape.