Armstrong Canyon Pool

[sj-gordon]

Below Owachomo Natural Bridge in Natural Bridges National Monument in Utah's SE corner is Armstrong Canyon. After a short hike to the natural bridge and a short hike below it to the bottom of the canyon i was rewarded with several small pools of water from recent rainfall. You could tell it had been running quite hard very recently, but had slowed to a trickle between pools and over ledges. This pool was sheltered from the breeze and was dead calm. Hanging over a ledge and holding the camera as low to the water as I could reach I took this shot. Framed it using the BEWAG method and fired off a shot. Chimped it and thought it looked like a keeper. I am quite pleased with the shot and the reflected sunburst in the water.

 

[fishing4sanity]

Very beautiful shot!

 

[Jeff15]

Lovely shot....

 

[Fujidave]

What a stunning image and well taken too, love the sun star.

 

[stapo49]

Fantastic! Excuse my ignorance but BEWAG method?

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[sj-gordon]

Fantastic! Excuse my ignorance but BEWAG method?

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BEWAG = Best Educated Wild Ass Guess.

I held the camera way down, pointed it in the direction I thought it should go and fired off a shot. Turns out I had it framed like I wanted so I didn't have to try several times to get the photo.

 

[stapo49]

Fantastic! Excuse my ignorance but BEWAG method?

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BEWAG = Best Educated Wild Ass Guess.

I held the camera way down, pointed it in the direction I thought it should go and fired off a shot. Turns out I had it framed like I wanted so I didn't have to try several times to get the photo.

Excellent BEWAG then.

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[Parker219]

Pretty nice. I give it an 8 out of 10. You could make it a 9 out of 10 if you edited it a little. I would raise the shadows to pull some more detail out of the far rock area, remove the purple from the bush/tree, and increase the blue luminance slider ( which will make the sky look a little more natural ).

 

[sj-gordon]

Pretty nice. I give it an 8 out of 10. You could make it a 9 out of 10 if you edited it a little. I would raise the shadows to pull some more detail out of the far rock area, remove the purple from the bush/tree, and increase the blue luminance slider ( which will make the sky look a little more natural ).

Yeah, reworked it when I got back home and didn't just have an underpowered laptop with me on the road. Did all of the suggestions you made, which I thought probably needed to be done, but the screen on the laptop is kind of on the crappy side so I didn't want to do too much without a good color rendition option with me at the time.