I spent the better part of a day over my anniversary weekend at the Grand Canyon a couple of weeks ago, trying to shoot during the worst time of the day (10am - 4pm) and with a cloudless blue sky. I took it as a challenge to find landscapes that avoided the sky and offered some variation in color and tone to at least make the photo interesting.
This shot is on 4x5 Portra 160 with a Nikkor 300mm lens. The color negative was scanned as a positive with all color correction turned off and then converted with the Color Perfect plug-in using the Portra 160 film setting. No other curves or color corrections were made. Amazingly, of all the shots I've made on color film (almost all transparency), this is the most accurate representation of the colors of the Grand Canyon that I think I've ever shot. Granted, the shot is no piece of art and as all of us do, I shoot almost always during the sunrise and sunset hours, but I'm amazed that the conversion filter did such a good job. I've only used it a few times now and in almost all cases, it has surprised me.
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