Motif: Snowy Monumental Valley

Posted by biologist on Mon Sep 08, 2003 5:08 pm

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Monument Valley after a snow storm in December 2001.

Was headed up there after Christmas and it started snowing while driving to Kayenta. Endd up staying there overnight and headed to the visitors center the next morning.

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Sigma 18-35mm

Enjoy.. Comments and critiques welcome...

Eric the Desert Rat

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by thapamd on Mon Sep 08, 2003 6:16 pm

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Grat shot, Eric! Is the snow a little blue, maybe?

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by Ken Cravillion on Mon Sep 08, 2003 7:58 pm

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Lovely. I like the look of this place in winter better.

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by Michael Brown on Mon Sep 08, 2003 8:11 pm

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Very nice depth and a different look to this one.
I like it!!!

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by Dan Baumbach on Mon Sep 08, 2003 8:18 pm

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Monument Valley does look spectacular with snow. The sceen is indeed beautiful. The problem that I have is that visually, I have no interested in the foreground rocks. My eye wants to push them out of the way to get to the good stuff in the back.

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by Kelly on Mon Sep 08, 2003 10:33 pm

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Eric, This place is beautiful in snow! Did you use a polarizer? The top part of the sky looks unrealistically dark.

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by E.J. Peiker on Mon Sep 08, 2003 10:50 pm

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A very nice shot and a slightly different angle from this classic shooting spot.

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by John Zinn on Mon Sep 08, 2003 11:43 pm

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Eric, way to be in the right place at the right time. This is a great composition and a beautiful scene. I agree that the top of the sky is a little dark. The sun looks to be at your back which makes me think the buttes are dark from the clouds instead of their own shadows. Did you happen to get any other shots as the clouds were moving with better light on the mittens?

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by Svein-Frode on Tue Sep 09, 2003 5:16 am

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A truly great scene, but the light wasn't perfect. The landscape needs more light (like you have in the foreground) and the sky is too dark. A little photoshop work can bring more out of this.

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by Lillian Roberts on Tue Sep 09, 2003 8:54 am

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I like your composition here; though the FG rocks aren't compelling in and of themselves, they serve to anchor the shot and give us a new perspective on something we have all seen before.

The light could have been better. Unfortunately you have shadow on both the classic formations. Based on placement of the other shadows, I think this is due to clouds rather than sun angle, which means that had you waited you might have gotten them spotlit (spotlighted?) which would have allowed them to be the true focus of the image.

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by biologist on Tue Sep 09, 2003 11:20 am

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Not sure if the snow is too blue or not..

Kelly, Used a polarizer.. Specifically the Moose warming filter...

John, It was in he mid morning and I do have another image with the mittens in some better light, but have to scan it first.

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by John Zinn on Tue Sep 09, 2003 11:28 am

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Eric,

I would love to see some other shots like this after you scan them. Just be careful not to blow out the whites when scanning - some of the snow on the rocks looks almost too white with no detail.

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by biologist on Tue Sep 09, 2003 11:31 am

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John,
I actually have a webpage of Monument Valley in teh snow.

Address is as follows

http://www.desertratphotography.net/por ... index.html

Enjoy Eric

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by Anders on Tue Sep 09, 2003 10:24 pm

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Nice!

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by Harvey Edelman on Thu Sep 11, 2003 11:01 am

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Very nice and the whites look perfect on my monitor.

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by biologist on Thu Sep 11, 2003 11:06 am

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thank you all for the comments. I do have a bunch of toher images from here that wer taken in teh same two day period.

I listed the web address from my website for them.

thanks a bunch for the comments and critiques...

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