John Ford Point
In Monument Valley Arizona there is a beautiful over look of the valley, one of the stops on the guided tour. I don’t think you can drive down in to the valley by yourself any more. At this stop there is a concession where a rider is out on the point for the tourist’s photographs.
This shot of the man and horse overlooking the landscape is a stock shot. The problem is that it is hard to get a different or unique angle of this icon scene, so most of the photographs look pretty much the same. I like the rich texture in the red foreground rock face created by the photo-artist on the computer using his sharpen filter.
There are a few things that concern me about this image. I would recommend not placing the subject in the center of the frame. The second thing I noticed is that the horizon and the surface the horse is on are not horizontal; they appear to be sloping slightly to the right. The last and perhaps the most important is the over use of the sharpen filter. It works well in the foreground but has cause a light outline around the dark animal against the light sky. I feel this filter was over applied.
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