Delicate Arch is the big enchilada in Arches National Park. It's been on my photo bucket list for years. It was a thrill just to see it. While I could have hoped for better skies last Thursday (Wed. had great puffy clouds, but proved to be a big tease for the rest of the weekend), I decided to try something different from the traditional shots that have been taken here.
So, I popped on my Canon 15mm Fisheye Lens and opted for a three image HDR. I wanted to try to capture the whole scene rather than emphasizing solely on the Arch. All I could say when I looked at the scene up there after that horrible hike up that slick rock .... was "this doesn't suck!" I'm really glad Artie had been posting a lot of fisheye pics in his bulletins since it prompted me to pick one up of my own. Of all the images I took in the Moab area, thus far, the fisheye experiments have been the ones I liked best.
I cropped out about 1/2 of the sky as it was simply blue sky into this pano mode.
EOS 5d Mark II
Canon 15mm Fisheye
f/16
3 image HDR
ISO 100
processed in photomatix pro; tweaked and edited in lightroom 2.2 and Adobe PS CS 4.







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