A rather grand canyon

ejm · October 1, 2022, 12:00am

Took this shot while visiting you-know-where back in Feb 2013. It’s hard to take a bad picture with such surroundings. And snow in the desert always makes it especially lovely.

Thought it would make for an enjoyable RAW exercise to share. Here you are.

I originally produced a color rendition. And of course there are some spectacular hues to work with.

But having grown fond of B&W here’s a more subdued monochrome treatment…

Here’s the RAW (Canon T4i with 200mm/f2.8 at 1/1000s):
2013-02-20-8892.CR2 (22.4 MB)

My ART sidecar:
2013-02-20-8892.CR2.arp (29.0 KB)

For old time’s sake, here’s my original rendering from years ago:

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ggbutcher · October 1, 2022, 2:20am

Grand indeed. Any image of the Grand Canyon needs depth, and yours does it well.

Two renditions, the first in color, with only the white balance tweaked from “as-shot” to emphasize the distance between the two walls:

But you’re right, the rock textures deserve monochrome treatment. I grayscaled it with just the red and blue channels, which did a different interpretation of depth: