Zion Canyon

[Dave_2_@hotmail.com]

Any thoughts?

[jkriminger]

its a pretty good composition..I think you went a little too over the top with color. Asphalt is usually gray to black..I think if you could tone down the red and bring out the green..levels in foreground brightened up.

[Greg McCary]

I agree with Rod. Other than the color issue and it's a little dark I think it's great. A little PS work might pull this one out.
Greg

[Dave_2_@hotmail.com]

haha well your right but actually the road WAS red and not gray.. it was one of those funny mountain roads down south. the ground was pretty close to that color red too, because of the clay soil. I'll play around and see if i can change it..

[jkriminger]

oohhh..nevermind...the sky and the foreground still look unbalanced though.

[Dave_2_@hotmail.com]

Heres a black and white version and one with reduced saturation.

[jkriminger]

I would concentrate on the levels adjustment between the rock face and the road.

[starriderrick]

This is a great shot.The "wunderlight" is captured nicely. Color saturation is strong.I still like this for the light.The B/W version proves it.
Good eye to catch this moment.

[drg]

I like the composition tremendously. It is too dark and doesn't really show the light on the landscape via dynamic range as well as I feel it might. This may have suffered from the compression we all experience at time when posting some photos of this type. I still believe that you could get more, certainly from the sky!

That red road really makes it for me and particularly how it skirts along and invites the viewer to look, but not touch the natural beauty.

Really glad you showed this one!

[GB1]

Dave - Zion's a nice place. Post some additional pix!

I agree on the saturation comments. The new post is better, but perhaps still a tad over the top. Also, it is too dark in the ground areas, but the problem here is that the sky will completely blow out if you increase density overall. But I don't think it will be that hard to mask out the sky and selectively increase lightness in the ground.

Also - try a graduated ND filter for big differences between sky and foreground like this. Sometimes it is the only possible way to overcome that lighting differential (hope it works - I used one in a lot of shots at Mammoth Lakes area last October and I really didn't get the desired results. I'm still trying to figure out why ).

G