View from Navajo Bridge
Jan 8, 2014 18:26:04 #
Was digging through old folders today and ran across the RAW of this image taken a few years ago. I ended up spending a little time on it, and thought I might throw it out there for a bit of C&A. It is a photo taken looking north from the center of the span of the Navajo Bridge where it crosses over the Colorado River at Marble Canyon. Taken a few seconds before final sunset.
No edits please, but have at the comments. No plans for it as a sale image, but may put it up in a club competition.
No edits please, but have at the comments. No plans for it as a sale image, but may put it up in a club competition.
View from Navajo Bridge
Jan 8, 2014 19:01:18 #
Jan 8, 2014 19:19:13 #
I might take the red channel down a bit as this seems overwhelmingly red. That way you could get more out of the browns and blues.
Jan 8, 2014 19:42:19 #
Jan 8, 2014 19:51:11 #
It's beautiful, but does seem almost monochrome with the strong reds. It very well could have looked like this when you shot it, though. So maybe that is exactly what you want. Lovely scene. The only thing I could suggest would be to get more colors represented, but only if you want them.
Jan 9, 2014 07:25:08 #
Heirloom Tomato wrote:
I personally love the monochrome feel. It immediately put me in mind of a William Henry Jackson, the kind of thing they'd have printed in a big folio but tinted to make it look more "real" than the original black and white. Compositionally of course it just sucks the eye right around and up to the very-slightly-purple mountains' majesty. That is some picture! :thumbup:It's beautiful, but does seem almost monochrome with the strong reds. It very well could have looked like this when you shot it, though. So maybe that is exactly what you want. Lovely scene. The only thing I could suggest would be to get more colors represented, but only if you want them.
Jan 9, 2014 07:47:35 #
I like the redness of the image, it feels right for the time of day and that there would be red dust in the atmosphere accentuating the sunset. My only other observation is that there is a slight halo along the skyline. In all a spectacular scene.
Graham, who is hopeless at landscapes.
Graham, who is hopeless at landscapes.
Jan 9, 2014 07:49:37 #
Jan 9, 2014 07:52:16 #
Country's Mama wrote:
Steve you know you have to elaborate.
He will when he gets back from the bathroom... Or have I misunderstood Steve's intentions? ;-)
Graham
Jan 9, 2014 09:20:39 #
Photographer Jim wrote:
Was digging through old folders today and ran acro... (show quote)
I like the image a lot. I think the processing, which looks like some vintage film type processing, is very suitable for the image. It reminds me of postcards and stereoscope cards my grandmother had from the early 1900's. The composition is excellent, rule of thirds with strong leading lines to guide you through and exits just at the right lower edge. I do note the slight halo on the horizon edge but that should be fixable. I would rather see a bit of detail in the foremost cliff shadow, such as exists in the rear and middle cliff shadows. Overall it is very impressive. The "look" is different enough to make me examine it closer, and want to see it again. To my view, it's successful. Let us know how you come out in the contest, you'd have my vote.
Jan 9, 2014 10:13:00 #
It reminds me of a photo I took from the same place immediately after a dust storm. The dust was VERY red, and the air was red after the wind died a bit. So, to me the tint looks real - just like "after the storm."
Jan 9, 2014 12:57:57 #
Thanks all, for the comments thus far. Just so all y'all know, I actually toned the reds down quite a bit from the original raw file. Yellows down just a tad.
Jan 9, 2014 13:45:30 #
Photographer Jim wrote:
Thanks all, for the comments thus far. Just so all y'all know, I actually toned the reds down quite a bit from the original raw file. Yellows down just a tad.
Well, there you go. Red it was and red it should stay!
Jan 25, 2014 14:15:43 #
Been there in the late afternoon...and the reds in this image are almost strong enough! Them reds are REAL!
And a side benefit of visiting Navajo Bridge and it's surround for photography is the almost guaranteed opportunity to see and photograph North America's largest endangered bird...the California Condor! The Condor recovery program uses that area as a release site for captive-bred C. Condors. They are mag-damn-
Dave in SD
And a side benefit of visiting Navajo Bridge and it's surround for photography is the almost guaranteed opportunity to see and photograph North America's largest endangered bird...the California Condor! The Condor recovery program uses that area as a release site for captive-bred C. Condors. They are mag-damn-
Dave in SD
Jan 27, 2014 11:13:53 #
This photo brought back tons of memories for me -- as a college kid, I spent 30 very challenging days in this same area living off the land in a desert survival class (5 units of upper division 'A' - if you managed to survive, that is) so I saw places very few humans had ever seen, and I came away with a deep respect for and love of the beauty this kind of desert scene offers. But, for me, I had to learn to see the beauty of the desert, which for a Norwegian, was at first a bit of a challenge. I remember watching many beautiful red sunsets on that survival expedition, but I don't remember ever seeing one quite this red, I love the shot, the composition and everything about it, my one recommendation would be to up the blue in the sky and the river a couple of knotches. Bye the way, is that a fisherman on the left bank, or just a rock formation that looks kinds like a fisherman?
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