[56k warning - 9 pics] Las Vegas and surrounding area

[Ben]

#1: Red Rock Canyon - Amazing colours and perfect weather
http://img82.echo.cx/img82/3203/img8253019ad.jpg (http://www.imageshack.us)

#2: Red Rock Canyon - These posts gave everyone splinters!
http://img82.echo.cx/img82/8910/img8297011hm.jpg (http://www.imageshack.us)

#3: Red Rock Canyon - Fill in flash on a cactus 1
http://img82.echo.cx/img82/8564/img8302017op.jpg (http://www.imageshack.us)

#4: Red Rock Canyon - Fill in flash on a cactus 2
http://img82.echo.cx/img82/6261/img8319011ji.jpg (http://www.imageshack.us)

#5: Our 'hummer' off road tour
http://img153.echo.cx/img153/7681/img8399011pq.jpg (http://www.imageshack.us)

#6: Hoover Dam flood protection - this thing is HUGE!
http://img153.echo.cx/img153/7485/img8205012qq.jpg (http://www.imageshack.us)

#7: Statue at the Hoover Dam
http://img153.echo.cx/img153/1811/img8247010mm.jpg (http://www.imageshack.us)

#8: Scary ride at the top of the Stratosphere
http://img82.echo.cx/img82/4499/img8451012lc.jpg (http://www.imageshack.us)

#9: View of the Las Vegas Strip from the top of the Stratosphere
http://img82.echo.cx/img82/725/img8448013wk.jpg (http://www.imageshack.us)

[Wazza]

Those are all great!

Great colours, definately.

Were they used with a polarizer filter, or just saturation?

[Ben]

Hoya Cir-Polarizer - my new best friend - I just love the effect it gives!

[nat869]

Nice!!!! I love Red Rock Canyon, I will be back there the end of July for a model shoot, I can't wait!!! I love the effect of the circular polarizer, mine is in the mail.

[gmaize]

Ben,

Amazing compositions. Can you tell us which of your wide angles you were using...in general. I see several possibilities from your gear list, but am guessing the 10-22. Correct me if I wrong.

Thanks,

--gmaize

[Ben]

All photos in the set were taken with the 10-22 EF-S

Thanks for all the comments :)

[MazerRakhm]

Checking out Red Rock canyon was the only good thing that came out of my last trip to Vegas besides a flat tire out by the lake.

[sparker1]

All great shots, vivid color, good detail and I like the compositions. Number 1 really shows the canyon very well. Don't you love the 10-22?

[MAGIcAL]

Hoya Cir-Polarizer - my new best friend - I just love the effect it gives!

Nice pics! The colors are vibrant. :)

Question on the polarizer... when you use it, do you have to adjust exposure compensation?

[Ben]

When I used the polarizer I probably could have done with raising the exposure a little but as it was my first time using it, I didn't. I just upped the levels slightly when I edited the RAW files and they came out fine. I think the polarizer can take off as much as 2 f/stops.

[Mannytkd]

Very nice shots Ben, but i have a quistion for you. How the hell did you manage to upload so many shots, i tried it recently and could only manage two and that gave me such a head-ache resizing again and again it wasn't really worth the effort, i'd like to upload some but resorted to makeing my own site......?

http://www.karlsphotography.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/

Anyway great photo's, i'm hopeing to be successful using a polarizer on my G6, but will use it in the manual setting for control?

When I used the polarizer I probably could have done with raising the exposure a little but as it was my first time using it, I didn't. I just upped the levels slightly when I edited the RAW files and they came out fine. I think the polarizer can take off as much as 2 f/stops.

[Ben]

I just uploaded all my photos to www.imageshack.us and then linked them to the post by putting tags around them.

Click quote on my top post to see how I did it :)

[Keiffer]

Call me crazy but I love the one with the post in it. Guess because I would have went for a shot something just like it. great sky to boot.