Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar by Canon DSLR Challenge


25-MAR-2009	Alastair Norcross

And sometimes it isn't! If Arches National Park (Utah) was intelligently designed, what would Freud have made of the psyche of the designer?

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Canon DSLR Challenge		30-Mar-2009 22:20
Arches National Park has to be one of the most awesome places I've ever been, and you have certainly captured the color of the beautiful redrock formations. I'm wondering, however, if there's too much of an "edge" around the stone structures, perhaps due to sharpening in PP. Good title BTW. --Mary Anne

jnconradie		30-Mar-2009 05:11
Thanks for the background info, Alastair. Regards Nico

Canon DSLR Challenge		29-Mar-2009 18:12
Thanks Nico. Yes, I used a polarizer for the sky. And a little enhancement in Photoshop. We were there for Spring Break until yesterday. Spring Break is usually a week in March in the US. Different schools and colleges have different weeks. In Boulder ours was last week, both for the local schools and for the University, where I work. Having the school and college break synchronized allows us to take a trip with our teenage son. Alastair

jnconradie		29-Mar-2009 18:01
Not being an expert in the field of the "psyche" of anyone, I'll rather restrict my comment to the photography :-) And I do like the photography, the sky is of course fabulous (polarizer?) and the detail on the rock faces outstanding. The off-centre composition with respect to the main cigar-rock-pillar-structure-thingy :-) also works for me. Is it some type of general holiday time in the USA that we get all these wonderful scenic postcards all of a sudden? :-) Regards Nico

Canon DSLR Challenge		29-Mar-2009 16:15
Ahh yes. Johnson Valley. Or at least that's what we called it when we were there a few years ago ;-)