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Delicate Arch From Below (6)
dwterry
![Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 56 W: 0 N: 204]](http://i1.treklens.com/misc/g-n-g.gif) (2453) | Just one more picture of Delicate Arch. This one is taken from down below in the bowl that can be seen at the bottom of this picture.
The branches in the foreground make the Delicate Arch look almost tiny. Until you notice the person up at the top left who is taking a picture of Delicate Arch. Then the enormity of the structure once again comes back into focus.
Post Processing:
1) This one, again, started out as 3 exposures from a single raw file, processed by Photomatix Pro.
2) However, I still wasn't happy with the lighting. So I brought it into photoshop and created an overlay layer on top of the image. Then I filled that overlay layer with a gradient from 35% gray at the top to 60% gray at the bottom. This basically has the same effect as if I had used a Neutral Density filter on my camera at the time of taking the picture (darkening the top of the image, lightening the bottom). Some day I plan to buy a set of ND filters as it would make images like this so much easier!
3) Final preparation of the iamge was to reduce size for web, sharpen and add a border. |
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