Ray of Light (Featured in Ngee Ann Photographic Exhibition March 2007 and PhotovideoI April 2007 issue)

Another shot from Slot Canyon. This time a closer look at a photographer

shooting a ray of light. It really lights up the canyon crevice.

great color here!

Wow, this almost looks like a laser beem. Wonderful color, shadows and light. You do go the most wonderful places! Do you need an assistant? LOL

Having seen many a picture on photo.net of that ray of light, I find very "refreshing" to see a picture of a photographer in front of it... original in its sense!

 

Cheers,

I see . You have fallen for Her ................................ (Nikon D70 ).

 

Great details . Nice shot.

Here's to not waiting for your turn! Well done. A fresh face on a familiar subject (often hard to do)

Good capture of light, good compostion and added scale with the person in the photo

Beautiful lighting, color, and composition. Very striking photo. Looks like you're making your way up the coast. Looking forward to more pics. You'll have a great time at Big Sur and the San Francisco area. Regards.

ANother great shot Alec. You gotta be lovin that D70. Great sharpness. Looks like you've adjusted to the new rig pretty quick.

This does provide a different sense of space to the canyon (which we've all seen so many times without the photographers). Good color and exposure. I might like a stronger silhouette of the photographer, but creating that would probably just result in a too-posed appearance. Like others of your images, this appears oversharpened to me. Enjoy.

Alec, great shot. I feel I have seen so many photos of this place on PN, but this one definitely stands out and indeed provides a sense

of depth.

Ahh,much better than the endless stream of red shapes we usually see on this subject!Having someone in the shot makes it better overall
The colour is abit bright

Including the photographer was a smart idea. Regards.

Steven, Jayme, Slavatore glad you like it too. Chee Hong Piow, yes I love the D70, the more you get to know it's qualities the more you'll like it.

 

 

Jeff, Paul you're right. It's really difficult to capture the correct exposure with such high contrast.

 

Ken, we did make it to the Big Sur, unfortunately on a cloudy day and skipped San Francisco due to the 4th of July celebrations. My friend Bob had to work on Tuesday and we reached LA around 2.40am. He only slept 3 hours before going to work again. Being his guest in his condo, I had all the time to work on the images in his super large Mac flat TFT screen. Great to have a friend since school days to share our passion in photography. We try to make a trip once a year without our family - strictly for great photography.

 

Joe, Amar, Ron glad you like it too. Marshall, I use the unsharp tool and try not to oversharpen it. Sometimes you cannot really tell with another person's computer.

 

Thanks everyone for the nice thread.

 

 

 

Yeah, sharpening is a tricky art form. One thought, which I have used with a few of my slot canyon shots: it seems (and maybe this is just me) that the amount of sharpening that best brings out the detail in the rock can be too much along the edges. So what I've done is to sharpen the a copy of the whole image on a new layer to the amount that I like for the rock walls, and then use a Layer Mask to reduce the effect a little along the edges. Not sure if you find that useful, but thought I'd throw it out there. Enjoy.

Thanks for the tip Marshall. I'll try it next time.

Wonderful shot, Alec.... Great color and composition. According to your pic data, you exposed for 4 seconds... but the photographer in the pic was not blurred at all. Did she intentionally freeze herself for your shot? I wonder....

Well Brad, she was also concentrating for the light and I told here to freeze. But I think you are right it could be closer to 2 secs as the light beam came on. (",)

Beautiful light and great creativity of this composition,which makes a lot different !

I appreciate your encourgements on my works,

Best Regards,:)

Angela