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A View Toward Elephant Mesa
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I don't know what else there was to the left or right of the scene but in my opinion you included the right amount of the good stuff; this one I like. It's balanced, the distant mesa is well framed, and contains a lot of interesting pieces for the eye to explore. Excellent sky. It looks like you are focusing at the hyperfocal distance ..Yes?
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Cany143 wrote:
Another of my favorite trees in Arches Nat'l Park.
I like that and think it would look good in a nice frame matted and hanging on a wall.
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I probably should say more but one word works for this image, "Stunning".
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Cany143
Loc: SE Utah
Howard5252 wrote:
I don't know what else there was to the left or right of the scene but in my opinion you included the right amount of the good stuff; this one I like. It's balanced, the distant mesa is well framed, and contains a lot of interesting pieces for the eye to explore. Excellent sky. It looks like you are focusing at the hyperfocal distance ..Yes?
Thanks, Howard. Immediately to the left was the sun, and immediately to the right there's a sloping wall of sandstone that really doesn't have any interest. Had the sun been included, there'd have been random sun flares that would've degraded parts of the image, and though I've purposefully wanted and shot for flares in some images at different times, I didn't want any in this image. Though there'd have been a lot of dof available using my 20mm lens (on an FX Nikon), wanting the closest of the roots (lower center of the frame) in focus and wanting that sharpness and dof to continue out to 'infinity' (i.e., the mesa and beyond), meant doing a focus stack of three separate images. So that's what I did, manually focusing approximately 1/3 of the way into the depth of each individual image. I've shot this same scene a lot of times with a variety of different cameras/lenses, so I pretty much know what has to be done to get what I want to get there (weather and sky notwithstanding, of course).
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