Photo of Mesa Arch, Canyonlands National Park, Utah
Anyway, after sunrise, we headed back east towards Moab, which is where we started out. But along the way, we stopped by Goblin Valley State Park. this little park is worth the one-hour stopover to see the legions of funny little rock formations in all shapes and sizes that look like…goblins! It’s like a whole city of them! Getting close to Moab, we took a little detour to visit Dead Horse State Park and Canyonlands National Park. These canyons are DEEP! They were full of mist; for a long time we couldn’t see anything. It was like we were above the clouds. But slowly, slowly, the mist would move, letting us peek into their depths. It never did TOTALLY clear up though, but mist does add to the photography, though it would have been better had it been a bit less dense. In Canyonlands, we took a short hike up to Mesa Arch, which is right on the edge of the canyon, and I got a nice shot of the ground and rocks and cliffs below, with just a hint of mist. And that’s today’s photo-a-day! ISO 200, f/8.0, and 1/640 seconds with my Canon EOS 5D Mark II camera and EF 24-105mm f/4L IS USM lens at 24 mm. In hindsight, I should have brought my ISO down to 100, which would have given me a shutter speed of 1/320 seconds, or even ISO 50 and shutter speed 1/160 seconds, which would have been completely sufficient, but improved the photo quality with the lower ISO. ISO 200 is still good, it’s just that in the processing in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom, I added quite a bit of fill light to the underside of the arch, so a lower ISO would have been beneficial. (That’s because digital noise hides in dark places, and when you try to brighten it, out comes the noise. Lower ISOs mean less noise.) But it’s still fine. I also did selective saturation increases in Lightroom to the oranges and reds to make them pop. I’m pleased with the results…
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