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 How this photograph was made: Grand Canyon Daytime
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how to get sunrise / sunset colors in daytime photographs
Part 1: Creating the image
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
Aristotle

1 – Introduction:
Daytime photographs suffer from poor light and desaturated colors.  In many instances waiting for sunset is the answer.  However, there are locations where this does not work. One of these locations is the Grand Canyon.
The Grand Canyon is, well, grand, that’s why it was called that way.  It is a mile deep and understandably at sunset or sunrise it is filled with deep shadows.  Sunset and sunrise are the times when the light is the best in terms of color.  Unfortunately, at those times only the top of the tallest buttes gets direct sunlight.
What is a photographer to do?  Get saturated colors by shooting at sunset and sunrise and not worry about the deep shadows?  Shoot during the day and learn to live with cool, washed ...

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Alain Briot creates fine art photographs, teaches workshops and offers DVD tutorials on composition, raw conversion, optimization, printing and marketing. Alain is the author of Mastering Landscape Photography, Mastering Photographic Composition and Marketing Fine Art Photography. All 3 books are available from Alain’s website as well as from most bookstores. You can find more information about Alain's work, writings and tutorials as well as subscribe to Alain’s Free Monthly Newsletter on his <a href="http://www.beautiful-landscape.com/">website</a>. You will receive over 40 essays in PDF format, including chapters from Alain’s books, when you subscribe.
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