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The Grand Canyon at Daybreak from El Tovar Overlook, June 7, 2024
When photographing the Grand Canyon, one quickly realizes that no ground-based position can capture the magnitude of this incomprehensively vast area. One, instead, must isolate appealing elements and photograph them using early or late light to accentuate geographical features. Flat, high light is generally to be avoided, as it generally fails to create any sense of depth.
On only my second visit to the Grand Canyon, an early morning attempt to photograph this wonder seemed the best way to capture an impactful image. Waiting for a moment when the rising sun broke through patchy clouds, my camera was positioned on a tripod ready to take this photograph. The clouds softened the warm directional light and created a dappled effect on the foreground bluff–but only very briefly. Canyon walls in the distance were just beginning to be cross-lit to reveal texture and contours by the same quality of light as in the foreground. There is a strong suggestion of depth and great distance in this scene. The foreground shadow at left draws the viewer’s eye into the scene.
My Nikon D-850, equipped with a 24-70mm f2.8E ED Zoom Nikkor at 40mm focal length isolated only a miniscule fraction of the Grand Canyon’s magnitude, but I achieved what I had set out to accomplish.
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