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Equipment & Techniques => Landscape & Nature Photography => Topic started by: Shakyphoto (Slim) on October 24, 2014, 12:35:31 pm

Title: Chasm of Man
Post by: Shakyphoto (Slim) on October 24, 2014, 12:35:31 pm: (https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3932/15617540152_78c99821cd_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/pN4YzE)Chasm of Man (https://flic.kr/p/pN4YzE) by shakyphoto (https://www.flickr.com/people/32225137@N04/), on Flickr

Think I could sell this to the EPA?
Title: Re: Chasm of Man
Post by: Slobodan Blagojevic on October 24, 2014, 12:52:06 pm: Very conceptual. I assume that is a composite?
Title: Re: Chasm of Man
Post by: Shakyphoto (Slim) on October 24, 2014, 01:08:34 pm: Quote from: Slobodan Blagojevic on October 24, 2014, 12:52:06 pm
Very conceptual. I assume that is a composite?

Nope... Single Shot using Sony A7R, Zeiss 21mm, and LR5.
The power plant in the background is the Page AZ power plant. (http://epaabuse.com/4365/news/arizona-power-station-may-close-–-thanks-to-the-epa/)
Title: Re: Chasm of Man
Post by: petermfiore on October 24, 2014, 05:50:12 pm: Love this!!! Great shot...

Peter
Title: Re: Chasm of Man
Post by: Eric Myrvaagnes on October 24, 2014, 07:56:08 pm: +1.
Title: Re: Chasm of Man
Post by: luxborealis on October 24, 2014, 08:13:44 pm: +1, too. I particularly find Slobodan's query about it being a composite quite telling.

I often think my own wilderness landscape photography glorifying the beauty of nature is wasted when shots like this come along exposing the what we are doing to the diminishing wilderness we have. I expect photographs like this have a far greater impact on people's willingness to protect nature than even a hundred or a thousand "pretty scenes" like the ones I tend to make.

Well seen and captured!
Title: Re: Chasm of Man
Post by: stamper on October 25, 2014, 03:51:27 am: An exceptional image. You should be very pleased with it. Did you know about the location or did you stumble on it? :)
Title: Re: Chasm of Man
Post by: Shakyphoto (Slim) on October 25, 2014, 06:05:15 am: Found it by accident, but I was there to photograph the slot canyons.
Title: Re: Chasm of Man
Post by: luxborealis on October 25, 2014, 06:28:55 pm: Quote from: Isaac on October 25, 2014, 12:54:26 pm
… because ?

...the two features of the photo - the natural slot canyon and the human pore plant - seem so incongruous that he thought it was a composite. Or, Slobodan was just playing with us. At first, I also wondered if the photo was a well-crafted composite, the juxtaposition of the two features being so surprising to me.
Title: Re: Chasm of Man
Post by: Slobodan Blagojevic on October 25, 2014, 10:51:00 pm: Quote from: luxborealis on October 25, 2014, 06:28:55 pm
...the two features of the photo - the natural slot canyon and the human pore plant - seem so incongruous that he thought it was a composite. Or, Slobodan was just playing with us. At first, I also wondered if the photo was a well-crafted composite, the juxtaposition of the two features being so surprising to me.

Not playing. Just could not believe there are sights like that. And it is not a disbelief aimed at the photographer, but at those who planted the plant there (pardon the pun).
Title: Re: Chasm of Man
Post by: Paulo Bizarro on October 27, 2014, 05:17:33 am: Very nice image. A good example for discussion about what is "nature" and "natural". Humankind is part of "nature", so the "hand of Man", even chimney stacks, is "natural"?

We often turn away our cameras from such "industrial" motifs that litter our landscapes, but they can generate very effective and creative images.

Here in Portugal we have an abundance of wind turbines littering our mountains, for example.
Title: Re: Chasm of Man
Post by: maddogmurph on October 27, 2014, 02:19:38 pm: Sometimes accidents are the best photographs. That A7R is impressive.