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Dead Horse Dawn
Dead Horse Dawn
Dennisheckman


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Challenge: Free Study 2014-02 (Advanced Editing VII)
Location: Dead Horse Point State Park, Utah USA
Date: Feb 17, 2014
Aperture: f/16
ISO: 160
Shutter: .7
Date Uploaded: Feb 22, 2014

I have been working like a dog again. When will I learn to stop doing that?!? My sweetie texted me a week before Valentines Day with a suggestion of going to Moab UT for a 4 day weekend. I couldn't respond fast enough with a resounding YES! Thanks Babe!

We hired a local photographer, Jon Fullerto guide us to an area that is little known by the regular tourists. He took us to a very nice spot on Sat morning, but it was too cloudy and the light just sucked. I took some shots, because that was the purpose of the guided trip, but was not happy with any of them. Frustrated a little with the lack of good light, we picked up and headed to a different area where he showed us some rock art. Then that was it for the tour, just a half day. Jon was great and he taught me a few things in the little time we had together. He has lived in Moab for 30 some years, and has been doing photo guide trips for the 7 years. He does other workshops as well, not just in Moab but around the world.

Our second day at Moab was worse than the first! It was completely overcast all day so no good photography that day. The third day, we got up again before sunrise and headed to Dead Horse Point since it is the easiest to get to in the morning. So finally, that morning light was spectacular! It only lasts for about 3 minutes though! At least that was our experience on that day. I'm betting in the Spring and Summer months the window of opportunity is little longer. There was a lot of haze in the atmosphere the whole weekend. I think it may have added an additional interesting element to this image though.

Hope this does well. I am really happy with the result.

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03/08/2014 03:28:03 PM
Originally posted by MAK:

Leica?
. Not this time. I used the 1DX and the 24 T/S. I didn't have the right lens for my M 240 when I was there. I had my 21 but it was too wide for what I wanted. My 35 wasn't wide enough. So I bought the Elmar 3.8 24mm. So far, so good.
03/08/2014 07:23:26 AM
Leica?
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
03/03/2014 09:01:11 PM
Beautiful !
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03/02/2014 02:44:23 PM
Really nice tones in the land, pretty nice sky, but that bright halo along the horizon is rather distracting.
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03/01/2014 11:11:54 PM
Gorgeous morning
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03/01/2014 12:14:42 PM
thanks for this I miss traveling out west
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03/01/2014 08:11:29 AM
fabulous!!!!
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