Grand Canyon

Comments appreciated.

This is a great composition, and the light and mist is superb. A question comes to mind (not a criticism) about the warm light in the foreground. It's quite dominating and the rest of the scene is quite soft and cool. The contrast is nice, but I wonder also how it would have looked if that part of the image was also in cool blue light. Regardless, it's a nice shot. Cheers, Nathan.

Hi! Great capture, i love the foreground colour and the sky! However i suggest you use photoshop to tone down the blue mist in the background on the left hand side. Keep it up, Peter Moonlight!

This shot is really great, but I'd love to see a little less of the heavy clouds overhead. They seem to weigh this shot down a little too much. Have you tried to crop some of it out? I wouldn't lose all of it, but maybe down to the bottome of the first bit of sky? Leslie

You're either very patient or very lucky, I'll assume patient. Well done.

Thanks everyone for your specific comments. I will try some of your suggestion.

 

Charles, I was both lucky and patient.

I love the southwest and have been pretty much photographing there since 1981. I can't stop shaking my head at some of the comments that have been made here regarding this shot. I could see cutting some sky out, the bottom 40% or so of it is more interesting and the upper part may not be very complementary to the other shapes in the photo, but the other comments make me wonder if these people know the southwest.

 

As to the light in the foreground, I would expect it to be warmer in this situation. This is a much paler orange than I would expect to see. As to the blue mist, first, I don't think it is overly blue as it is and, second, at this altitude and in shade, it could be bluer.

 

I think you have shot a more unique angle of the canyon that what one normally sees and, actually, it really shows the deleterious effects of the haze that continues to plague this part of the world and veil the canyon's true beauty.

 

maybe I am seeing a version you have already made some changes to, but if not don't ruin the shot following the previous suggestions!

Very nice shot, but I would tend to think that the lighting in the foreground is pretty well spot on, the blueness/haze is just there now and partially just natural, but not nearly as bad as back in the seventies, with a couple fewer copper smelters down south putting a nice sulfur dioxide haze into the air. Very often, we see these G-Canyon pictures on photo.net with excessive saturation, which is really not needed at all.

Hi, I know it was over a year ago now but i would just like to defend my comment about the blue mist.

 

As you rightly speculate I have never been to the southwest so have no experience of photographing it. I was just saying that to me, although perfectly natural the blue mist does draw the eye away from the spectacular highlight in the foreground.

 

I therefore suggested editing the image as I have done in the attached version, which, in my opinion makes the photo slightly more pleasing. I am not attempting to take anything away from the photography, I think the depth of field and other aspects of the photograph are outstanding.

 

This is just my personal opinion, feel free to disregard it as you see fit.

 

Keep up the good work Eugene.

 

Peter Moonlight.