Jim Dockery
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After seeing the nice color versions of these towers in the landscape forum I went back through my files to my own trip to Monument Valley. I didn't pay for a guide so all my shots are from the road.
Yei Bi Chai in B&W
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Kyle Jones
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Very nice. I think I like the second better. In the first I keep wishing the front totem was lit up. In the second, the brighter features in the back draw me into the scene.
Hey Jim, it's nice to see some B&W views of the totems. The view from the road isn't as nice as when you take the tour, but it's still a very cool view and it's one where I will pull out my long lens and shoot from the road also. #1 is my favorite composition, but it's got that really hot area below the totems that is blown out. Since it's B&W, I would select that blown out area and just pull down on the whites to add just a touch of gray. Moving white from 255 down to maybe 235 would be about perfect maybe?
Leslie Hunter
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The clouds do it for me!
Jim Dockery
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Jim, I opened that shot in photoshop and scanned around in that area with info open and couldn't find anything hotter than 203 - it looks gray on my monitor, but wanted to check.
Mike Mancil
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#1 for me. Excellent tones here.