Three more images from the US tour, this time Panoramic format composites of the Grand Canyon.
We toured all around it, but all these are from the south rim, when we had quite a lot of mist, cloud and heavy showers passing through .. a relatively rare event. It was all sunny by the time we got to the north rim and the vistas were just not as dynamic.
Really like the lower two, but the huge 2nd pan is definitely my favourite with the sunlight casting all kinds of interesting light in and around the vast landscape, from shadow to light rays to touches of highlights on the right, it "reads" really well.
The third was taken with the advantage of being able to stay until Sunset, once most of the tour buses had headed off. The storms that had closed parts of the National Park earlier (wandering desert cliff-tops isn't healthy in a thunder storm), had drifted away to the north east horizon, providing a fantastic backdrop sky to the glowing canyon walls, which were all the more warm tinted thanks to the cloud of hair spray and diesel fumes that linger over Los Angeles to the west. I also love the hazy light in the left of shot too, which retained a lot of natural light and detail - often you would have needed to lighten this artificially, but I guess the grazing Sunlight must have been being diffused off of the clouds and cliff face. Buckets of texture, detail, depth, colour and contrast make it another favourite, even without any real focal point.
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| Composite of 5 images at ISO100, 16mm, f/11, 1/80s, -0.6ev |
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| Composite of 12 images at ISO100, 32mm, f/9, 1/50s, cir plrsr, highlights reduced in Lightroom |
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| Composite of 4 images at ISO400, 35mm, f/10, 1/80s, -0.6ev, circ plrsr |
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