Color or Black & White?
I thought I’d post one more shot from Red Canyon today. The trouble is that I couldn’t decide which one I liked better so I wanted to ask your opinion. Which do you like better – color, or black & white?
Camera: Nikon D700
Lens: Nikon 16-35
Processing: Photoshop CS5
Image Type: Single Exposure
Red Canyon
As many of you already know from my previous canyoneering photos, I really like slot canyons. I ran across Red Canyon while I was doing some research for my recent trip to Utah and decided to check it out. There were two pretty nice sections of narrows and the very best thing was that we were able to drive up the drainage right to the entrance! That is definitely something I havent experienced before – normally I have to hike for a few miles and find a way to descend into the drainage and hike another couple miles to get to the narrows section before having to make what is sometimes a very tortuous hike out.
In this case, we were able to drive down the clearly marked, but extremely sandy road before turning into the drainage which would take us to the mouth of the canyon. I’ve been thinking about putting together a little travel resource of some of the places I’ve been in case any of you would like to check these places out. What do you think?
Camera: Nikon D700
Lens: Nikon 16-35
Processing: Photoshop CS5
Image Type: Manual Blend of Two Exposures
White Domes Slot
Thanks for all the nice comments yesterday. There’s just something about yesterday’s image from Caesar’s that I don’t like and haven’t been able to put my finger on it. A big thanks to Rick for his constructive feedback which has given me some great insight. I think I will process a couple more of my photos from the area and see how they turn out.
For today, we head back out to the Valley of Fire just outside Las Vegas, Nevada. This is an interesting little slot canyon that I found on the White Domes hiking trail. The whole trail is a mere 1.5 miles long and this section of narrows isn’t more than 300 feet long, but I still found it interesting. Because of the high, narrow walls of slot canyons like this, I find that it’s best to photograph them closer to midday rather than in the morning or late afternoon. It was about 11am when I started on this hike and the temperature had reached 104ΒΊ so I was pretty glad that the hike was short. I hope you enjoy this one!
Camera: Nikon D700
Lens: Nikon 16-35
Processing: Photomatix Pro 4, Adobe Lightroom 3, Photoshop CS5, Topaz Adjust
Sandstone Waves
Happy Wednesday everyone! It’s been very busy here for me lately both at my job and in my wonderful world of photography. I am working on five different projects right now that I hope to have live within the next month. These projects have been taking up a substantial amount of my free time (just ask Kristi) so please forgive my lack of activity in the comments and tweeting department. My google reader is overflowing right now and I am absolutely refuse to “mark all items as read” because I don’t want to miss anyones photos! Thanks for understanding and I’ll be back it everything soon!
I thought I’d post one more shot from my canyoneering trip in page the other weekend. I just love taking pictures in these slots canyons. All the different colors of the rock combined with the wavy textures of the sandstone ending in sharp edges and deep shadows make for absolutely amazing photos. I could spend a whole day shooting in a canyon like this!
Camera: Nikon D90
Lens: Tokina 11-16
Processing: Photomatix Pro 4, Adobe Lightroom 3, Photoshop CS5