Goblin Valley in B&W

[Roman Racela]

Thank you, batmura. I basically just used PS and played with the color adjustments and creating layer masks to fine tune my highlights and shadows. These particular hoodoos aren't that tall. The smallest around 4 feet and the tallest is maybe 8 feet. I wanted them to look bigger and taller so I shot from a low angle. I only stayed there for less than an hour and would have loved to stay til sunset but Capitol Reef was waiting   This is definitely a place that I would visit again and camp out for a couple of nights.

Roman, you made a great choice by converting to monochrome. How did you edit it? To me, it's the clouds that make it so powerful. The angle of the shot is amazing too.

[davidh202]

I have experimenting with the blur filters in CS6, and found that if I select the sky and use the Iris blur pulled all the way in behind the foreground hoodoo, and soften the clouds it works a little better to my eye. Kind of like a long exposure on sea water. I'll  post my version if you'd like.

[Roman Racela]

Yes, please share.

I have experimenting with the blur filters in CS6, and found that if I select the sky and use the Iris blur pulled all the way in behind the foreground hoodoo, and soften the clouds it works a little better to my eye. Kind of like a long exposure on sea water. I'll  post my version if you'd like.

[davidh202]

What do you think Roman?

[Roman Racela]

I'm on the fence on this. lol

I think it may be too blurry. Can you do another version with just 50% opacity of what you did?

[davidh202]

This is just slightly softer than your OP

[Roman Racela]

I may have to start incorporating this technique where appropriate!

I'm liking it, dude.

This is just slightly softer than your OP

[davidh202]

This was one of my first attempts to use the Iris Blur in CS6 I thought it was a good tool to accomplish the task.
Glad you liked it Roman. Yes, I think the second version is better. Just enough to soften the clouds without going too far .
David