Taking a shot with our smart phones is a great tool to get a sense of what an image might look like from different heights and points of view; it’s a lot quicker than changing our tripods around and trying that 5-10 times. Also, the GPS data on our phones provides a marker that allows us to find exactly where we took that shot…

Valley of Fire’23

This was a quick up-res from an iPhone shot and some relighting playing with Topaz Photo AI, which I clearly still need to learn more about, as it increased the saturation by significantly more than I expected. Still it gives a good sense of the landscape in Valley of Fire state park in Nevada.

4 responses

  1. Lovely capture, Frank 🙂

    1. Thank you, Hammad!

  2. Fantastic shot!

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