A Few Recent Captures

kdog

A few more snaps from my recent trip to AZ.

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PGM

What a terrific series! I've never seen such clear reflections in water, and the colors are spectacular, not to mention the striations in the rock. #3 and #4 have such a feeling of depth to them. #1 is beautiful, also. What can I say--I like them all! Best, Pam

Earache

:jawdrop and :jawdrop and..uh ummm.... :jawdrop (awesome work Joel!)

Stumblebum

#1 is special! Pro's pro!

#5 is brilliant as well!

What are the little white dots in #2 and #3? Did a cloud turn into crumbles?

Maestro....teach me!

kdog

PGM wrote: »

What a terrific series! I've never seen such clear reflections in water, and the colors are spectacular, not to mention the striations in the rock. #3 and #4 have such a feeling of depth to them. #1 is beautiful, also. What can I say--I like them all! Best, Pam

Thanks, Pam. Good to see ya!

kdog

Earache wrote: »

:jawdrop and :jawdrop and..uh ummm.... :jawdrop (awesome work Joel!)

Hahaha, a three jaw-dropper. I think that's a first for me. Thanks, man!

kdog

Stumblebum wrote: »

#1 is special! Pro's pro!

#5 is brilliant as well!

What are the little white dots in #2 and #3? Did a cloud turn into crumbles?

Maestro....teach me!

Thanks, 'Taz. Those little white dots are huge flaming balls of plasma in space that can only be seen under the night sky. There's billions of them I'm told. Yes, those were shot at night under the light of the full moon.

So when are we going shooting?

black mamba

Gracious, Joel. That's some outstanding work.... by anyone's standards. You have been putting some really superb stuff on us lately.

Take care,

Tom

Hackbone

The last four just scream super work! Do you ever use Viviza?

Stumblebum

kdog wrote: »

Thanks, 'Taz. Those little white dots are huge flaming balls of plasma in space that can only be seen under the night sky. There's billions of them I'm told. Yes, those were shot at night under the light of the full moon.

So when are we going shooting?

Soon! Lets plan on it! Cheers! To mooch of.....where were you in Arizona....please say when you get a moment.

Cornflake

Beautiful work, Joel!

anwmn1

Very nice stuff Joel. The comp in #3 looks very familiar and I do not know how I missed out on that sky in #1 I must have been thinking about margaritas. That is a sweet shot!

David_S85

Really liking #5, Joel. Beautiful. The sky's reflection in the water is purple with that red rock underneath.

kdog

Thanks for all the comments folk. Sorry for the lateness of the replies.

black mamba wrote: »

Gracious, Joel. That's some outstanding work.... by anyone's standards. You have been putting some really superb stuff on us lately.

Take care,

Tom

Thanks for the kind words as always, Tom. It was an unusually productive trip.

Hackbone wrote: »

The last four just scream super work! Do you ever use Viviza?

Thanks very much, Charles. I've tried Viviza, but am not particularly savvy with it yet. I currently do most of my color adjustments in LR/HSL.

Stumblebum wrote: »

Soon! Lets plan on it! Cheers! To mooch of.....where were you in Arizona....please say when you get a moment.

All of these were in the Page, AZ area. First was in the desert near Lake Powell, and the second is on Lake Powell itself. The rest were from the Paria Plateau area of the Vermillion Cliffs Wilderness area. You've probably seen my tripmates photos in this forum by now. We've got a thread under "Journeys" too if you haven't seen it yet.

Cornflake wrote: »

Beautiful work, Joel!

Thanks, Don!

anwmn1 wrote: »

Very nice stuff Joel. The comp in #3 looks very familiar and I do not know how I missed out on that sky in #1 I must have been thinking about margaritas. That is a sweet shot!

Thanks, man. Yeah that sky really popped when I started processing. If you got the same comp in #3, I haven't seen it yet.

kdotaylor

Absolutely incredible!

superduckz

Absolutely Sublime...

Roaddog 52

An absolutely stunning set of images. thumb

Phil

kdog

kdotaylor wrote: »

Absolutely incredible!

superduckz wrote: »

Absolutely Sublime...

Roaddog 52 wrote: »

An absolutely stunning set of images. thumb

Phil

Thanks Kate, Steve and Phil for the kind comments. bow

jbenayas

This shots are awesome!

I love the light, the composition, the process... fantastic work!!

dlplumer

Great series, Joel. Love #4 with it's softer tones.

redleash

Exceptional, Joel! Some of your best work, I think. #1 is my favorite, with such warm colors and the depth--makes it look like the sky goes on forever. #4 is my other favorite--I like the balance in the composition and the detail in the rock is terrific. Well done!

Lauren

lifeinfocus

Like them all, but I tend to like the darker images and therefore number 1 stands out. Color me envious!

Thanks so much for posting.

Phil

Schnauzer

What a wonderful series. A pleasure to look at.

I very much love them all but #1 really draws me in.

DavidTO

Nice!

The light in the first is exquisite.

The shots are all excellent.

If I may humbly offer a comment based on feedback Marc's been giving me, I would say that you could add to the depth of most of them by making the foreground a touch darker, and maybe lowering the clarity (if you're in LR), so that the eye is led to your subject. I think this would be especially helpful in 3 and 5. The lighting is flat across the image. This may sound odd for an image like 5, which pops right off the page. You wouldn't call it flat, but it has a uniformity across the image. In 3 I think the subject would be the pool of water and the formations behind. The lines in the rock are essential to the comp, but they are not the subject, and could be brought back in brightness, contrast and clarity so that the subject can stand out more and the image overall could have more depth.

I'd be interested to hear what you think, but the short story is: great work!

Dreadnote

These are all awesome! But #1 is my favorite. That is just out of this world. And the cool thing is that you got that image before some yahoo boy scout leader goes and knocks the thing over.

kdog

David_S85 wrote: »

Really liking #5, Joel. Beautiful. The sky's reflection in the water is purple with that red rock underneath.

I somehow missed your reply, David. Thanks for the kind words.

jbenayas wrote: »

This shots are awesome!

I love the light, the composition, the process... fantastic work!!

Thanks so much.

dlplumer wrote: »

Great series, Joel. Love #4 with it's softer tones.

Thanks, Dan. As always, I appreciate your keen eye.

redleash wrote: »

Exceptional, Joel! Some of your best work, I think. #1 is my favorite, with such warm colors and the depth--makes it look like the sky goes on forever. #4 is my other favorite--I like the balance in the composition and the detail in the rock is terrific. Well done!

Lauren

Good to see you again, Lauren! Thanks for your input. You and Dan have similar tastes evidently on number 4.

lifeinfocus wrote: »

Like them all, but I tend to like the darker images and therefore number 1 stands out. Color me envious!

Thanks so much for posting.

Phil

Thanks very much, Phil. 1 and 5 are my particular favorites.

Schnauzer wrote: »

What a wonderful series. A pleasure to look at.

I very much love them all but #1 really draws me in.

Thanks, Schnauzer!

DavidTO wrote: »

Nice!

The light in the first is exquisite.

The shots are all excellent.

If I may humbly offer a comment based on feedback Marc's been giving me, I would say that you could add to the depth of most of them by making the foreground a touch darker, and maybe lowering the clarity (if you're in LR), so that the eye is led to your subject. I think this would be especially helpful in 3 and 5. The lighting is flat across the image. This may sound odd for an image like 5, which pops right off the page. You wouldn't call it flat, but it has a uniformity across the image. In 3 I think the subject would be the pool of water and the formations behind. The lines in the rock are essential to the comp, but they are not the subject, and could be brought back in brightness, contrast and clarity so that the subject can stand out more and the image overall could have more depth.

I'd be interested to hear what you think, but the short story is: great work!

Thanks, David. You know, I've been noticing some really good landscape photographers whose pictures appear to have been done up the way you describe. It's worth playing around with, so thanks for the ideas.

Dreadnote wrote: »

These are all awesome! But #1 is my favorite. That is just out of this world. And the cool thing is that you got that image before some yahoo boy scout leader goes and knocks the thing over.

Thanks, man. You know we pushed that thing over after we were done so nobody else could steal our shots.





Kidding!!!

LightMagic

I have been busy and not really been able to come check out the pictures here, finally today I did and what a way to start. Brilliant!!!

DeeBug

Cracking set of images,each one better than the next!

kdog

LightMagic wrote: »

I have been busy and not really been able to come check out the pictures here, finally today I did and what a way to start. Brilliant!!!

Hey LM, good to see you back. Thanks for warm comments.

kdog

DeeBug wrote: »

Cracking set of images,each one better than the next!

Thanks for the nice comment!

joe-bob

Fabulous! I really like your 1st shot.