So I’ve spent the last five days totally incommunicado down in Arches National Park. We had a ton of fun with the family, but the highlight of my visit boils down to one photograph…
The Rock Shot
So I’ve spent the last five days totally incommunicado down in Arches National Park. We had a ton of fun with the family, but the highlight of my visit boils down to one photograph…
OK, so more about our trip…
Not to make a travelogue of this, but other vacation-related events and things we saw: * Hiked to Skyline Arch, Landscape Arch, Double O Arch, Sand Dune Arch (very fun for kids and adults who think they are kids), Balanced Rock, etc. * Helped try to put out a fire in a car, and then gave up as the tires and windows began exploding from the heat and eventually drove away while it burned to the ground. At least the car separated from the camper so that the folks didn’t lose their home. * Took the fun photo above. Man, I love that picture. * Took about 600+ other photos (no exaggeration). Now we have to comb through them and figure out which are worth printing. * Learned that a 1,000 BTU tent heater does not keep up with 35-degree nights. I woke up in the morning to see most of my kids with their heads all the way under their sleeping bags and just a tiny hole to breathe through. * Experienced bone-chilling cold and wet days the first two days. We had fun, but it was pretty miserable. * A campout is always good. If not in the staying, then in the going back home.
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Matthew P. Barnson
Smells like PS?
Smells like Photoshop? Digital doctoring? 🙂
You’ll have to give a little detail about the shot…
Detail about the shot
That’s what I said to myself after we took it, “It looks like a bad Photoshop job” — as we looked at the photo in the viewfinder on our little digital camera. We have about 30 attempts before we got the perfect one, I could post those, too 🙂
We were about 1/2 mile west of Skyline arch on the road to Tower Arch. The aircraft is actually only about 100 feet in front of us, but the framing made it look like it was flying through the arch. The sun was behind us (as you can see from the shadows). The shadow for the airplane was outside of the zoom area. Perspective is very skewed… that rock to the right is about 300 feet away.
We were partway down the 2wd trail on this road to take the picture: http://climb-utah.com/Moab/Maps/tower.jpg
I’ve been trying to figure out what makes the photo look Photoshopped. I think it’s the lack of a shadow, maybe, or the sense that perspective is totally wrong… Skyline Arch is just HUGE and quite far away.
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Matthew P. Barnson