'Bryce Canyon: At the Edge (fisheye)' [For Ana G. who likes landscapes]

This is the lip or edge of The Canyon at Bryce Canyon, Nat'l Park,

looking East in morning, winter, using a fisheye lens. Your ratings,

critiques and observations are invited and most welcome. If you rate

harshly, very critically or wish to make an observation, please sutmit

a helpful and constructive comment; please share your photographic

knowledge to help improve my photography. Thanks! Enjoy! john

Good Morning John, This is a surprise for me as I don't normally associate you work with a beautiful landscape like this. My eyes are constantly drawn back into the canyon, though I like the sky very much also. Truly beautiful shot.

BR,

Holger

I try to be capable of taking nearly any shot, but with landscapes, et al., only recently were my Photoshop skills even approaching minimal levels necessary here on Photo.net for mnimum exposition.  (this is a very old shot).

Fact is, I long have been capable of taking such shots and have taken them when I could do abetter or best job, but I don't go out on landscape photo expeduitions often.

On the other hand, a camerea, a street, peole and that's a photo expediution. every day.

Most everyone can take such a shot, few can do 'street' well, so I concentrate my efforts there.

Thanks for a nice comment.

john

John (Crosley)

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I know this spot well. A few million other tourists have stopped and taken this exact snapshot. I seldom rate but here I gave you a 3 on account of your originality.

The cloud pattern thought is nice

The spot is familiar; the shot not.

This is a 180 Degree fisheye, very unusual, especially with the clouds.

I doubt you'll ever see another even from this vantage, however familiar it may 'seem'.

That's why it's posted; that and the wonderful clouds.  It's the top of the world, where mountains merge into the sky.

Rate as you wish, but it's rearkable to take something extraordinary from something others make cliches from, I think, or I wouldn't have posted it.

Even you seem to recognize that in comments.

Ratings can be changed, but I ain't asking.

john

John (Crosley)

no John, ratings can no longer be changed.l

This is a view from Inspiration Point.  My guess is that is was shot before all the ugly protective fencing was installed (hence we'll never see another "from this vantage").

To me, the image appears a bit soft and hazy throughout, especially on the right side in the darker (tree) areas.  Perhaps this is the result of a low-resolution scan of the slide/negative?  

This is in an attempt to reach you, rather than post a comment on the photo (which is different to what you usually do). When was this taken? The brown rock on the foreground is interesting...it's shape (spreading out) seems to mirror the clouds in the sky.

I have dropped a mail to you; don't know if you have been able to read it.

Best wishes.

This is a digital capture with crop sensor and 10.5 fisheye lens and a wide range of tonality.  Perhaps wrangling it in has brought about the problem you perceive. 

Thanks for letting me know.

john

John (Crosley)

I'm traveling with a laptop with a broken screen which makes reading any sort of letter or e-mail difficult, but I believe I got the gist of yours, and am most thankful; trust me entirely.

I will follow your wishes, but the entitty involved to me is NOT transparent at all and hides identitities for now at least, so no issue of identity revelation or disclosure from this end at least -- as they don't even disclose the amount or the fact at all to me. (I had been unaware and in their acccounting still am without reference to main site).

Bless your growing family!

john (peering through the laptop screeen darkly)

(and thankfully for your friendship)

John, in an earlier comment you said: "this is a very old shot"; so, I thought it may have been a poor scan of an old slide or something.  Not sure what you mean by "wrangling it in".  I have a 10.5 fisheye and when I shoot with the horizon at dead center no correction of distortion is required (because there isn't any) and the result is sharp.  Perhaps the image just needs to be sharpened for internet viewing.  Regards, Jeff

The tonalities here were stretching the limits of the D200 at the given ISO, and had to be 'wrangled in' to reduce blowout potential and darkness, which also may have affected sharpness, since you seem to have noted decrease in sharpness.

That's all.

Thanks for the elaboration.

john

Jophn (Crosley)