Even if this location is
getting more popular, we still
think this is an
excellent capture. The
brilliance of the colors and
the perspective make this
picture almost unreal. Most
likely, you must have thought
it was a bonfire when
viewing the thumbnail... quite
a surprise to see that it
isn't, right? (Read Discussion)
I have seen this ruin a lot of times. Many of the greats have photographed this place; Adams, Sexton... However, this is the first time I've seen it in color. Wow! It looks like a bonfire. Did you enhance he colors digitally? I find difficult to believe such saturation and brilliance. Even if it's been done many times, what a great picture.
It was shot with Velvia. Maybe 1/3 f-stop underexposed. No color push in Photoshop.
The upper left corner was burned slightly to focus the viewpoint to the center of the flames. Many people would consider Velvia chemically enhanced color. :-)
This location is getting popular. I have seen several new images of this area in the last 2-3 months. The very first one I saw was from John Sexton (couple of years ago?) and I thot it was out of this world ... almost like a Marsian landscape.
Now, about the image ... may be a slight use of PS gradient to give a little more hint of what's lurking in the bottom left corner would bring more out of the image? Just a thot ... beautiful colors, as expected from this area.
I like the fact that the dark area on the lower left wedges the viewpoint up into the image towards the fire. I could lighten it to expose more detail but that would fight the composition as I view it.
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