Watchman Panorama

[Elvin Guzman]

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Watchman Panorama at sunset, Zion National Park. October 2009

Canon 30D
EF 17-40mm
1.3 sec
f/16
ISO 100

[Roman Kurywczak]

Hi Elvin,
The flow of the ridgeline is very nice and the light is pretyy good. As there wasn't much going on in the sky you minimized it nicely. I think the choice here was to either have gotten there a touch earlier to avoid the larger shadow on the center area which draws my eye or my preference....wait a little longer for the last rays of light to just hit the few selective peaks and ridges so that you could bring up the FG a touch and the extra drama of that late light would help give some more impact. Well composed and stitched?.....just feel the light needed to have a bit more impact. Having sat through countless such attempts myself......I feel you probably handled it as well as you were going to get in the conditions present.

[Dave Mills]

Hi Elvin, Good comments by Roman. For my taste I would have concentrated more on the watchman since expanding the image has taken away the mountains strength. It can be cropped a few ways but I would have cropped it just past the shaded area that looks like a beak. This way the watchman is lit and it stands out instead of competing against the opposite lit area....

[Harold Davis]

roman nailed it for me. as is, i might crop off the left to accentuate the peak more.