Sunset, Superstition Mountains, AZ Nikon N70, Sigma 18-35mm lens, 81B filter and Fujichrome Velvia Film.

-- Eric A. Rosen (electron@dancris.com), December 27, 1998

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There is a noticeable lack of sharpness... Other than that I might have steeped a few feet to the right to separate the cacti from the rock formations.

-- Tait Stangl (taits@usa.net), December 27, 1998.

Well, I don't notice any lack of sahrpness except that imposed by presentation at this size. He jsut didn't go crazy with the unsharp masking, which is good.

Exposure: judging by the tonal range, this was either shot on print film (my guess) or is a masterful, lucky, or well-bracketed slide exposure.

Composition: Is the white blob in the sky the moon or a piece of dust? It would be interesting to see variations with the cactus in different parts of the frame relative to the rocks. Did you move forward and back to change the proportions? Could you have moved higher and pointed the camera down, including more foreground and a bit less sky? This might have accentuated the scale effect, and used the available depth of field more effectively. I like this picture, but I can't shake the impression that there were other pictures here that I might have liked even more.

-- Alexey Merz (alexey@webcom.com), December 27, 1998.

Oh, I just noticed that Velvia was used. Good job on the exposure!

-- Alexey Merz (alexey@webcom.com), December 27, 1998.

This picture was scanned in with a HP photosmart scanner but I did not filter it with anything except the sharpen filter in Photoshop 4.0. and adjusted teh image size and levels..I did not use the unsharp mask filter...

The white blob is the moon rising over the mountain

yes I have others with me moved further back from teh cactus until I ran into the barbed wire fence there....

Could not move up higher since I was already below the cactus and could not change my composition..

I liked this pictures cause of the cloud over the mountain that actually stayed there.. Usually when I am out at the mountain shooting the clouds always disappear at or around sunset.

-- Eric A. Rosen (electron@dancris.com), December 27, 1998.