Valley of Fire - White Dome Trail

[Michael Pancier]

Another shot taken along the White Dome Trail in Valley of Fire State Park in Nevada.

Again, I used Photomatix Pro to convert the single raw file into a pseudo HDR. Cleaned up some pots and added a ND Grad later in Nik Color Efx 3.0 onto the sky area
Image was taken with 5d and 17-40L at 35mm
ISO 200
f/9.1
1/50 second
thin polarizer
full frame

loaded converted tif into lightroom; final processing in ps cs 3.

[Ed Cordes]

It's been a while since I have been here. I like this image a lot. The post processing work is great. Dynamic range and saturation really convey the beauty of the area.

[Jay R. Seltzer]

Very nice colors. The striations on the lower and mid left lead you into the view. The sky contrasts perfectly. Since I have not been there it's hard to get a sense of scale but I imagine it's big !

[Alfred Forns]

Excellent Mike !!! Love the composition and the extracted dynamic range from the image Never been there so don't know how close is the sky color? To me looks like a very saturated blue !!! Big Congrats !!!

[Bob Ettinger]

The striations lead the eye into the image and the colors are great. I have one nit, the sky has two colors. Partially due to the polarizer but to it it looks funny.

[John Cooper]

Hi Michael - I also enjoy the full frame sensor of the 5D when I attach my 17-40mm ;)

I like your composition here and the leading lines. The shift in sky colour from using the plarizer and wide-angle doesn't bother me. Nice one!!

[Robert Amoruso]

You have a good eye Michael. Composition works well.