Fire Wave Trail

– Celia Thaxter.

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Finally, wilth all the holiday stuff out of the way, I got a chance to work on the rest of the photos from our trip to Valley of Fire state park. This shot was taken at sunrise during the fire wave hike. We were coming back from the fire wave and I had marked these rock outcrop while we were initially on the trail for an after sunrise shot. So, after the twilight and sunrise we hightailed it back to this spot to get the golden light on the rock. I thought the pink gyration on the pink rock in the foreground worked really well with positioning of the rock and beautiful light.

As for gear set up, I used my histogram to expose the image properly with the help of a two stop ND grad filter. My thought for the framing was to use the patterns in the pink rock to use as aleading light o guide the viewers eye to the brightest part of the image. This was one of most prettiest and colorful desert landscapes I have ever seen and we had a great time enjoying it in all its solitude.