Coffeepot Rock - Sedona AZ

[Chris Dodkin]

If you're ever visiting the SW USA, make sure you pencil in a visit to Sedona AZ.

The rock formations are amazing, and rival Yosemite / Grand Canyon etc IMHO.

This formation has a rock shaped like a diner coffee pot on the right (center frame) - hence the name - and dominates the West Sedona area near Highway 89A.

Shot with a circ polarizer, then treated in Photoshop with their IR B&W filter.

Canon 5D MKII and 70-200 f2.8L lens

 

[Chris Dodkin]

Same rock formation in colour - shot with the 300 f2.8L - evening lighting

You have to be careful with WB, as the camera sees all the red rock, and tries to compensate for what it thinks is a red lighting cast!

 

[Darren Turner]

really love the second image, really stunning scenery.....how lucky to live in the houses to the foreground.

Not sure about first image, i feel its over exposed / blown highlights which ruin it for me.

Daz

 

[Glen Roberts]

I think I prefer the colour one too, like Darren said it does look over exposed, probably the IR treatment .

 

[Tim Pindar]

Yes I agree - Chris, have you got the original colour version for comparison?

 

[Darren Turner]

yeah that's a good idea tim, to view the original if possible, to see if the treatment / post processing has had any influence on the highlight issue.

Daz

 

[Chris Dodkin]

Here you go chaps - original colour shot from yesterday - usual tweaks in PS.

The IR filter in Photoshop does blow out the highlights, especially on anything green such as the trees, but I kind of liked the look for that image - a more trad B&W conversion could keep everything in range.

 

[Glen Roberts]

I think the colour one looks better, you can see the houses more which were virtually blown out before.
Maybe a more traditional B/W conversion might look alright?

 

[Paul Lange]

I presume that the IR filter in photoshop is only capable of producing a faux IR image? If the camera has a High Pass filter I guess that such a thing blocks IR light waves?

I like the larger colour photo but not too sure about the Telephone Poll in the left foreground.

 

[Tim Pindar]

The colours are so amazing, it seems a shame to lose them!

 

[Darren Turner]

yes the colour version is far superior image in my opinion, the place looks amazing, i have of course visited this or a similar area in Red Dead Redemption on Xbox, but that's another story........haha

The telephone pole is an easy clone out if needs must......lol

 

[Chris Dodkin]

Telephone pole.... what telephone pole?

Here's pole-less version in colour, and also a more traditional B&W conversion for comparison.

 

[Glen Roberts]

The tradition B/W looks better than the IR version to me, but out of all the versions I prefer the colour one.

 

[Laurie Parker]

Its a beautiful scenic area and for me personally the colour captures that so much better that rock colour really is something worth showing,


Funny that too Darren I galloped past similar scene on my horse in RDR too haha

 

[Chris Dodkin]

Never thought of using XBox games as a scouting tool for photography! LOL

 

[Laurie Parker]

It gets nasty Chris crazy local wildlife try and attack you, safer on google maps lol