Utah Travel by Mark Stevens Via Flickr: While at a roadside pullout along the Ely Highway (Utah State Route 21) with a view looking to the northwest and down a long stretch of highway leading up to Wah Wah Mountains. I've come across a few images over the past several years of with ideas similar to this one with a long stretch of highway, captured somewhere in the American West. I've have been similar settings in Utah heading down south to Moab or east of Death Valley National Park. All beautiful! Here I was heading out west to great basin national Park. I definitely had to stop to capture one here. My thoughts on composing this image was to get down low, using the LCD screen with LiveView on my Nikon D850 SLR camera. That would allow me to get closer to the road and use the LCD screen to line up and compose the image. I could capture a look across and down the highway and raise the horizon slightly higher into the image. I think that would bring out more of a sense of grandeur with those mountains off in the distance. The blue skies and clouds would be that color contrast to complement the earth-tones in the lower portion of the image. I did some initial post-processing work making adjustments to contrast, brightness and saturation in DxO PhotoLab 5. I then exported a TIFF image to Nik Color Efex Pro 5 where I added a Polarization and Pro Contrast filter for that last effect on the image captured. One image I have saved that gave me the idea for this image was here (500px.com/photo/5654475/Vintage-Travel-by-David-Bouchat/).
