Navigate Big Bend National Park and the Santa Elena Canyon (Big Bend National Park)
While at a point along the Rio Grande in the Santa Elena Canyon with a view looking upstream and to the west. This is the border of the US and Mexico with the latter on the image left. Even near noon, the noted 1500’ canyon walls keep much of the area in shadows with the sun's light.
My thoughts on compositing an image of this setting were to use the river flowing by as a leading line and have the canyon walls frame the view looking forward. Metering this was a little trickier, given the perceived high dynamic range with those areas in sunlight versus the others in shadows nearby. I decided that metering with the brighter areas would prevent any blown highlights. I chose to work with Aurora HDR Pro to better bring the complete setting in an image. I later exported a TIFF image to DxO PhotoLab 5 where I did some final adjustments with contrast, saturation and brightness for the final image.
Navigate Big Bend National Park and the Santa Elena Canyon (Big Bend National Park)
While at a point along the Rio Grande in the Santa Elena Canyon with a view looking upstream and to the west. This is the border of the US and Mexico with the latter on the image left. Even near noon, the noted 1500’ canyon walls keep much of the area in shadows with the sun's light.
My thoughts on compositing an image of this setting were to use the river flowing by as a leading line and have the canyon walls frame the view looking forward. Metering this was a little trickier, given the perceived high dynamic range with those areas in sunlight versus the others in shadows nearby. I decided that metering with the brighter areas would prevent any blown highlights. I chose to work with Aurora HDR Pro to better bring the complete setting in an image. I later exported a TIFF image to DxO PhotoLab 5 where I did some final adjustments with contrast, saturation and brightness for the final image.