Grand Canyon

We(me and my wife) went to Grand Canyon in July.

But I did not get time to post the pictures online until now.

I have posted them at

http://pbase.com/punitsinha/grandcanyon&page=all

Few more pictures will be added here.

Once I am done, I will select a few and submit them in the critiques corner for a more formal critique.

In the meantime you guys can take a look.

Comments and feedback are welcome.

Thanks

You got some awesome pictures. I would love to go there some day and see it in person. I am afraid of heights so the one looking down got my attention the most.

:shock: Those are some great pictures. You should be very proud of yourself. I'd really love to take my kids there someday. But I think I'll wait until their a bit older.

I agree with you A.J., kids will appreciate this place only if they are a bit older

Wow! Nicely done, Punit! You have some beautiful photos there!

Looks like you got some great shots! The Canyon can be hard to photograph from what I hear. Sadly, I've not yet been there myself. But dammit, I'm going soon!

if you have not been to the canyon, you should go there.
and if you have been there, you should go there again, it is such a beautiful place.

Yes photographing the canyon is tricky and difficult.

The early morning and late afternoon is best, there is too much haze in late morning and early afternoon,
and unless you have a very wide angle lens, do not attempt to framne everything you see in one shot.

That is why you ave to go there and see ot for y ourself as no picture does any justice to that place.

What you see from naked eye is extremely diffuclt to capture in a single frame.

WOW! Dude, you cook! Your style is totally awesome.

I enjoyed every photo and I think most of them are post-card perfect.

Hey, thanks midnitejam. Thanks for the compliment.

Yeah, Punit, those are probably some of the best shots I've seen of the Canyon before... most of them are excellent! Well done. How many photos did you take to get that many good ones? ;)

Definitely some great photos. You done good.

Tim,
I cannot say how many in all for Canyon alone as in that trip we went to grand canyon, Zion, valley of fire, las vegas and Red rock canyon.

At the end of the trip I had 278 pictures.

Not much considering all the places I been to, but I was low on memory.

And some of them were family shots, which I do not want to display publically.

So I can say 15% - 20% of my shots are *keepers*

Wow... great job. :D

wow 20% I have a long way to go, I think my crap-keep percentage is more like 5 to 10% :lol:

Yeah, I think I'm lucky if I get about a 1:7 ratio of "keepers" to not-so-good photos... which I guess is about 10%-15% or so... depends on the day, and what I'm photographing, though, of course. ;)

Stunning photos sinha :D I'm lucky if I get maybe 1:8 for keepers. Excellent work.

Fantastic pictures!

Im not sure what my keeper % is at but its not high, but I dont try for it to be high either. If I did I would only take a fraction of the pictures I do take and probably miss out on some great ones then.

One of my teachers was saying that pro's would take maaany pictures of something, and usually its the 4-7th one that is a keeper, the first few are just to take the picture of the item and get that out of your system, then you start to think about what your photographing and get creative and the keeper is in this area. thats why digital is nice, you can take a 100 pictures of something if you want, but thats a bit over kill, hehe.

Regarding taking many pictures.

Many photographers, put the camera in continuous shooting mode, and take many shot of the exact same picture. And one of them is sharper than the rest. I read about the reason, but I forgot the reason but remembered that one of the many frames shot is sharper than t he rest.

So this could be areason why some take too many shots.

Im not just talking about continuous mode, but about other things. Like with wedding photography you dont just take one shot of something, you take a few. Ya never know what may happen. Some may even take the same picture but 2 or 3 times on different rolls. So if one roll comes back underexposed, you can have the next roll pushed, etc.