This picture was taken with Canon ElanIIe, with a 28-105mm f3.5-4.5 lense and Fuji Reala 100 in Arches National Park, Utah.

-- Alex Tsaregorodtsev (tsar@animatekusa.com), June 09, 1999

Answers

That must be the circular spinning arch that's so hard to get to.

-- Tom Van Veen (tvanveen@accmail.umd.edu), June 09, 1999.

Its a nice use of symetry, however I would go back when the light is better

-- Mark Meyer (mameyer@xsite.net), June 09, 1999.

If you're having problems seeing the picture, click here, then click back on your browser. The browser should then show the correct picture.

-- Jeremy Kindy (kindjd01@wfu.edu), June 09, 1999.

How to improve picture? Replacing the XOOM.COM logospam with a photo from Utah would be a terrific start. And Jeremy -- your suggestion did not work for me. I just got more opportunities to see the logospam.

This upload stuff will get smoother over time. I'll try again later on.

-- Jim Gifford (jgifford@ix.netcom.com), June 12, 1999.

-- Andrei Frolov (andrei@phys.ualberta.ca), June 14, 1999.

It's not a "bad" shot.

The exposure looks fine, although a different time of day "warmer, more directional and maybe softer light would help.

Positioning yourself so that the road below doesn't show would be an improvement. Nature/landscape shots look better without roads in them, especially in a scene such as this. Now if the road was the subject mater, it would be a different story.

Lastly, try to not include so much empty sky. Cloudless blue skies are boring, from an artistic point of view (like an empty canvas), and add nothing to photos. Photography and art is about textures to a degree, and clouds provide drama and texture at the same time. Many people find great beauty and inspiration in the shapes of clouds and the way they are lit at certian times of day. I realize it's tough sometimes. Back east it seems the best clouds only appear mid day when the light is wrong. Here in the NW, it's almost always heavily overcast...blue skies seem foreign to us, and the best pictures of famous landmarks combine "unusual" lighting and clouds.

So what to do when the skies are empty and boring? Compose so the sky occupies les than 1/3 of the frame. Of course that's just an artistic suggestion, but it's also taught in painting classes. And of course, rules are made to be broken. But in general, it makes sense.

Hope *this* makes sense. ;>

Cheers!

Keith

-- Keith Clark (ClarkPhotography@spiritone.com), June 15, 1999.