Landscape Photo Competition 2014 No 5 : Entry Number 37

Congratulations for this beautiful shot. We have seen lots of views of Monument Valley in this competition but never yet from such an original viewpoint. The low light is soft and flattering, the lines on the foreground rock are highlighted by that giving this photo its extra dimension. You have mastered your exposure, keeping the whites within the histogram, then you have sensitively developed the resulting image, adding a clever vignette to hold the viewer’s eye in the picture. This is a great shot of one of this planet’s famous landscapes but you have gone the extra length to make it original. Well done, you were very close.

Hello, My name is Patrick McMullen. The location of where I took this photograph is in Monument Valley, Utah near the Arizona border. I used a Canon Mark 2 camera. The post processing is a little vague to me now, but I did do a fair amount of dodging and burning. I added a small vignette to the bottom border using the gradient tool to help lead the viewer into the photo. I hope this helps...Patrick