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South Rim of the Grand Canyon, Arizona
3-26-13 at 6:10am
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At the end of March I went to Arizona for a landscape workshop led by Don Smith and Gary Hart. On our second day we went back to the South Rim to shoot the sunrise. Sometimes the blue light before sunrise is very pleasing, but not in the series of shots I got on this morning. The scene was covered with a very strong bluish haze, which is evident on the horizon (cropped to eliminate some of the featureless sky). To extract the colors you see here, I took a sample with the dropper in Lightroom to adjust the white balance. The temperature went from 6250 to 16250K, and the tint from -11 to +13. This image was made 14 minutes before official sunrise at 6:24am.
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