Mort Berman
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This has been photographed by many, but one can never tire of Antelope Canyons' beauty, and spiritual feeling.
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This has been photographed by many, but one can never tire of Antelope Canyons' beauty, and spiritual feeling.
Dawid Loubser
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Hello Mort,
The composition of this image is beautiful, and since I don't live in the USA, I am not familiar with this place, so I really like your image. It indeed has a spiritual feeling.
If I may, I would like to offer some critique on the technical aspects of your image : The image seems rather soft - I am not sure if it is because of camera shake, or strong noise reduction, or both. If you have access to this place again, I would re-do the image with the camera mounted on a tripod, at the lowest ISO setting possible.
With many kinds of images, the subject matter is so interesting or inspiring that subjective image quality plays almost no role whatsoever. But this is essentially "eye candy" (like most Landscape Photography), and I think it's important to try and achieve the best quality image. You don't *need* a SLR, Medium- or Large-format camera, all they help you do is produce HUGE prints. Even with a P&S, you could achieve a fantastic image with careful technique, and with this image, perhaps take two bracketed images and merge them into a High Dynamic Range image (using a tool like qtpfsgui).
The composition of this image is beautiful, and since I don't live in the USA, I am not familiar with this place, so I really like your image. It indeed has a spiritual feeling.
If I may, I would like to offer some critique on the technical aspects of your image : The image seems rather soft - I am not sure if it is because of camera shake, or strong noise reduction, or both. If you have access to this place again, I would re-do the image with the camera mounted on a tripod, at the lowest ISO setting possible.
With many kinds of images, the subject matter is so interesting or inspiring that subjective image quality plays almost no role whatsoever. But this is essentially "eye candy" (like most Landscape Photography), and I think it's important to try and achieve the best quality image. You don't *need* a SLR, Medium- or Large-format camera, all they help you do is produce HUGE prints. Even with a P&S, you could achieve a fantastic image with careful technique, and with this image, perhaps take two bracketed images and merge them into a High Dynamic Range image (using a tool like qtpfsgui).
Mort Berman
New member
Thanks for the input. I appreciate the time taken to reply.
Antelope Canyon is in the Northern part of Arizona on a Navajo reservation. The area is so popular, that one has to book early and go with a hoard of others to ctch the light as the Sun moves over the Canyon. There are only a few minutes in the day to catch the shot. I was using a tripod and it was shot @ 1/10 - ISO 200. Surprisingly, my print shows considerable contrast and great highlights (all attributed to P/P. Again thanks for the critique.
Antelope Canyon is in the Northern part of Arizona on a Navajo reservation. The area is so popular, that one has to book early and go with a hoard of others to ctch the light as the Sun moves over the Canyon. There are only a few minutes in the day to catch the shot. I was using a tripod and it was shot @ 1/10 - ISO 200. Surprisingly, my print shows considerable contrast and great highlights (all attributed to P/P. Again thanks for the critique.
Asher Kelman
OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
Hi Mort,
You might try adding a curves layer in photoshop and going to multiply in the blend and adding 5-15%.
Also one can convert a copy to LAB use the L channel only and perfect that and then blend it back with the RGB image.
Asher
You might try adding a curves layer in photoshop and going to multiply in the blend and adding 5-15%.
Also one can convert a copy to LAB use the L channel only and perfect that and then blend it back with the RGB image.
Asher
Mort Berman
New member
Here is a larger image of the previous posting. Hopefully it shows more detail. I might work on it a little more to see if I can improve on it.
Dawid Loubser
Member
Hi Asher,
to what end? What is your vision regarding these adjustments? (sorry, I don't have photoshop, I am an open-source kinda guy).
Asher Kelman
OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
Hi David,
The idea would be to increase the density of the over-exposed central light shute of the image.