Light painting on Delicate Arch re-edited

[Terri French]

I shared this photo several years ago. My son-in-law wants to give a print of this to his parents for a new home they just bought in southern Utah. I re-edited it using Color Efex Pro. I thought it might be fun to share it again now that I have a new edit that I like better. The night we did this was a very fun evening that I will never forget. We had a wild time hiking down with our headlamps and flashlights. There was no moon and it was so dark. It was my one and only lightpainting experience. I think we need to try it again, although I think light painting in the national parks is banned now.

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[Mike Buckley]

Gorgeous image, Terri! I've seen lots of photos of this arch including my own and this one is definitely one of the very best.

 

[Randy]

Wow what a great shot
Crazy good colors and awesome composition
I love CEP

 

[Phil K]

Stunning!

 

[bsinc1962]

Beautiful Terri. Very interesting process.

 

[Walter]

Beautiful! Wonderful sapphire blue in the sky really enhances the context.

 

[socrreferee]

Everything about this shot is wonderful

 

[gchappel]

Beautiful image. This is spectacular, and deserves to be printed.
I print a lot, and print big. I have another 80x40" print leaving this week. Something in post did add some noise in the blue sky. Depending on size, and what paper you are printing on, you might want to denoise just the sky a little. In print skies drive me crazy. We all know what a sky is supposed to look like, so it better look correct. Most people have never seen delicate arch- so they don't know. You can do anything you want with it. Looks great here.
It will be a wonderful print either way.
gary

 

[Mike Buckley]

I think light painting in the national parks [is] banned now.

I found a webpage dated two years ago indicating that light painting was banned only in five national parks. Arches National Park was one of them.

 

[JW53]

Gorgeous image Terri. Think it would make a great print addition to any home.

 

[Clix Pix]

This is absolutely gorgeous, Terri! It will be a beautiful print and a wonderful gift for your son-in-law's parents and their new home!

 

[Minuteman3]

Really a special image!! Wow!!

Ken

 

[Butlerkid]

This is an outstanding image!!! Really well done!

Beautiful image. This is spectacular, and deserves to be printed.
I print a lot, and print big. I have another 80x40" print leaving this week. Something in post did add some noise in the blue sky. Depending on size, and what paper you are printing on, you might want to denoise just the sky a little. In print skies drive me crazy. We all know what a sky is supposed to look like, so it better look correct. Most people have never seen delicate arch- so they don't know. You can do anything you want with it. Looks great here.
It will be a wonderful print either way.
gary

I agree. One needs to be very careful with CEP. I find most of the presets are way too strong in the default position. Detail Extractor, IMHO, can add a lot of artifacts. At first, pushing an image a lot may seem great, but the IQ does start to suffer. Start the slider at -0- and then move up very slowly. Using the control points to only apply the effect to a specific part of the image is a big help also.

 

[Bohdan]

Outstanding image. Love the processing.

 

[Boblou]

Marvelous image.
Love colors and composition.
Well done.

 

[Mitchell]

Really beautiful, Terri! I would suggest printing this on aluminum. The colors will be vibrant.

 

[MikEm13]

WOW Terri. That is really beautiful. It will be the showpiece in the home.

 

[Commodorefirst]

Guess what image will be featured Friday? Yep, stunning image.

 

[Mike Buckley]

Guess what image will be featured Friday? Yep, stunning image.

Great decision! The only reason I didn't nominate it is that I nominated the last photo made by Terri that was featured on the home page.

 

[catalyst]

Amazing photo, painting, and processing, Terri! I've hiked up to that view several times, but never in the evening. Super!