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Critique Style Requested: Initial Reaction
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Questions to guide your feedback
Can you sense the size of this formation?
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Image Description
Splendid September evening light on the eponymous formations in the Needles section of Canyonlands NP. The Needles are a series of spires located to the southwest of Squaw Flat campground that surround the Chesler Park area of the Needles District. They are formed out of a resistant red and white sandstone layer called Cedar Mesa Sandstone which makes up most of the rock features in the Needles District.
Technical Details
Canon EOS 5D IV; Canon EF 200-400mm @ 200mm; f/16 @ 1/1000 sec, -0.67 EV, Iso 6400; Gitzo tripod, RRS BH 55, Canon RS-80N3 remote switch. This formation, Devil’s Wall, is approximately four miles long.
This panoramic view was made from 12 images captured at a distance of four miles and stitched together. To reduce focal point distortion and maintain sharpness throughout, when making an image of such a wide subject from a single vantage point, one must capture it from a great enough distance that the rotation of the camera, and thus the plane of the sensor, can be minimized. The resizing and compression required to get an image that is 8 feet wide to fit into 1500 pixels has a decided effect on image quality.
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