A little south of the Utah line

[Jess Lee]

This is from last April in Arizona. I can't wait to get back

[Julie Brown]

Hi Jess. I love the color and texture of the rock. Nice composition. Did you use any filters?

[Jess Lee]

Thanks Julie,
It was one of those clear, after the storm mornings, in a place a ways from pollution. I gave the image about 10 points of saturation in ACR and a little contrast.
Shot with a 1ds mkIII 17-40 @ 20mm

[Michael Pancier]

coyote buttes? great clouds...reminds me of the hike to the wave.

[Dave Mills]

Hi Jess, Definately has the look of terrain near the wave. You did a nice job framing the comp using the rock as a leading line taking you back to an interesting rock formation. The sky has interest but for my taste I would take a small slice off the top.(about half way through the top loose clouds) Wonderful lighting completes a well handled image!

[DanielTMiller]

Love the colours and textures in this shot, and the composition of the lines.

[Jess Lee]

Thanks for the comments. This shot is probably geologically close to the sandstone near the wave but it is 30 to 40 miles a way. One reason I like it down there is that there is so much great country.

[MIHAIL OBADA]

Hi Jess!
I like the framing, the perspective and the colors.
But I've allowed to re-process the image (I was playing a little - a bad habit of mine) in PS.
Look what I got:


http://i262.photobucket.com/albums/ii109/mihailo_2008/sbutte_LEE9194m.jpg


How to work (in different layers):

1 curves - linear contrast
2 curves - lighter, 30%
3 high-pass filter, radius 0,6px, blending overlay
4 I selected the second quarter from above ( including the large cloud and the stones protruding) - polygonal lasso tool, feather 50px
5 H/S in blues - hue -40 (minus 40)
6 I cloned two black spots in the top section of the image (probably two birds)

I think so i gave the image brightness, clarity, depth, and contrast color.

Jess, with much respect, if you believe that I was wrong, i immediately delete.

Sorry for my horrible English!

I wish you good light!

[kostas nianiopoulos]

this is a great image and the Mihails repost rocks !!! Well doneJess and well done neighbor Mihail . Im sorry Sorry for my horrible English as well , but Mihail's are better .. :)

[Robert Amoruso]

Jess,

Great compositon for the reasons mentioned. The arc in the sandstone works well as a leading line to the BG. Mihail's recrop is just what I had in mind when I was going to say up the contrast and bring out the details.

I would have opted for using local contrast enhancement (http://www.birdphotographers.net/forums/showthread.php?t=20434 for my tutorial).

[Jess Lee]

Thanks for the suggestions. I will check that out when I get back from these Yellowstone tours and I am in the office with a monitor where I can see the difference.
Robert I expect your great tutorials will be a big help. I was fascinated watching your speed while our groups were at Silver Salmon

[Morkel Erasmus]

nobody's mentioned it so it might just be me, but it seems as though the surface and FG lacks a bit of finite sharpness. that being said it is a fine composition with great light, texture and lines!

[Kaushik Balakumar]

Nice image with beautiful textures. Some lovely job from Mihail on the re-post.