luray caverns Photo

Photographer’s Note

This is my second posting of Luray Caverns from a day trip of last October. Without a tripod, I set up again my camera on a stone and pointed it up to take this low perspective. The overexposed areas are those where the spotlights shone.

Luray Caverns are a large, celebrated commercial cave just west of Luray, Virginia, USA, which has drawn many visitors since its discovery in 1878. The underground cavern system is generously adorned with speleothems (columns, mud flows, stalactites, stalagmites, flowstone, mirrored pools, etc). The caverns are noted for the Great Stalacpipe Organ, a lithophone made from solenoid fired strikers that tap stalactites of various sizes to produce tones similar to those of xylophones, tuning forks, or bells.

jimmj63, dlevy23, lilimih33, Gerrit, xavshot, siolaw, kiwi_explorer, ChrisJ, riclopes, gracious, Cretense, AiresSantos, belido, Truja, Emile, danos, jhm, Benedict, mvdisco has marked this note useful

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bracasha75 (22009) 2007-12-04 5:02

Hi Danilo
Wonderful creation of nature...great cave
TFS
Cheers,Braca

jimmj63 (779) 2007-12-04 5:15

interesting site and good shot!
ciao, giacomo

UnTrained (0) 2007-12-04 6:21

Hi Danilo,
like the former one managed with great light feeling having brighter and darker parts but nothing hidden. Now with the people around you adding atmosphere also, a very impressing "incave" one.
Lieben Gruss, Ulf

mehmetemin (7217) 2007-12-04 6:22

Hi Danilo
Amazing color, great capture... color, light is perfect
Mehmet Emin

Budapestman (41618) 2007-12-04 6:46

Hi Danilo,
Fantastic shot. The POV is very attractive and spectacular, details are stunning. I like the gorgeous lights, really fabled spectacle, Very well done! Have a nice day
George

dlevy23 (2018) 2007-12-04 7:35

Hi Danilo, this is a great photo. Always hard to take this kind of photos because the lighting and the people. you did a great job capturing this one. Great colors and exposure. nice POV.
I posted a Workshop, I hope you don't mind, please let me know what do you think.
Good job.

Daniel

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lilimih33 (9872) 2007-12-04 8:22

Hello Danilo!
Nice image of this cave and good colours and light!
Incredible beautiful inside!
Beautiful perspective!
Excellent done!
Best regards!
Lili

Valerka (8159) 2007-12-04 8:50

Privet, Danilo,
I've been wondering what's it like to hear the Tocata e Fuga by J.S. Bach in such a concert hall.I bet, the sensation would be unforgettable.
TFS
Valerka:)

Gerrit (35595) 2007-12-04 8:58

Hi Danilo,
impressive ceiling in great tones. The light effects are good,
groeten Gerrit

Gustaw (21670) 2007-12-04 9:04

Hi, my friend!
Wow! Interesting place and interesting view. I like your idea and your colours. It must be very interesting place.
Marek

xavshot (62287) 2007-12-04 12:31

Bonsoir Danilo
pas facile de prendre des photos dans ce type d'endroit. Tu as bien réussi à retranscrire l'ambiance. Les personnage apportent de la vie à ce lieu. Beau travail.
Xavier

Graal (57717) 2007-12-04 23:55

Hi Danilo,
unusual place, interesting reportage and informations. I like it. Good work.
Gr., Aleksander

siolaw (25722) 2007-12-05 0:08

Hi Danilo,
A difficult light well controlled and a nice low POV with people giving scale. I like the graphism of the stalagtites...
Well done
Laurent

evanrizo (456) 2007-12-05 0:34

Hi Danilo, so many people in a cave! And the stalactites over the heads look impressive.
Cheers
Evangelos

kiwi_explorer (12195) 2007-12-05 1:50

Hello Dan,
Wonderfully captured ... I like your low angle shot here. Good utilization of low lighting conditions creating a wonderful atmosphere. Well composed and good inclusion of the crowd to create some scale of dimension. tfs
Cheers,
Renier

dvlazar (6474) 2007-12-05 5:41

A very impressive display of the stalactities! I love the orange lighting, and the fact the photo is generally very sharp. A well captured image,
Dave.

riclopes (32969) 2007-12-05 6:45

Olá Danilo, impressive view of this carpet of needles coming from the ceiling. Considering that you didn't had a tripod, you managed to get an excellent POV, good overall sharpness and beautiful lighting. The WS of Daniel is a good work and I understand the crop, although I feel that you have more depth here and I like that.
Best regards,
ricardo

Partha_c (1985) 2007-12-05 8:44

Hi Danilo. A brave shot without a tripod. The entire canvas looks like a stage. Beautiful colour management and impressive silhouettes of the visitors.Great work, Regards.
Partha

gracious (20017) 2007-12-05 9:34

My dearest friend Dan!
Superb composition with a excellent view of the inner cave!
perfect sharpness with exposure and focus to capture the fine details of the inside cave!
very well done indeed
selamat
Tony

Cretense (55812) 2007-12-05 12:54

Hi Danilo!

Not as impressive as the other one with the reflection but surely a beautiful and very dificult one. Great composition, this time, the people add a lot of interest along with the fantastic adornation of this cave. Congratulations!

Hercules

pablominto (40488) 2007-12-06 0:25

Hello Danilo,
This is an amazing place, and well depicted!
The artificial lighting is interesting and adds impact, the image has a fine feeling of depth...
Well framed with a wise emphasis on the "roof", and I like inclusion of the people for scaling!
Greetings,
Pablo -

:-) OK-

ChrisJ (70099) 2007-12-06 1:28

Hi Danilo

Good result under difficult lighting conditions. Superb sharpness, with warm colours. Tfs!

anducina (8085) 2007-12-06 10:28

Impressive scene--the great architecture of nature. Excellent colors and light.

AiresSantos (41920) 2007-12-06 10:55

Hi Danilo,
Wonderful roof with many stalactites. I like your POV and the people inside.
Excellent colours and light well managed
TFS and greetings
Aires

belido (16341) 2007-12-06 11:36

Hi Danilo,

very impressive interior shot. I guess you didn't use tripod but the fact is that you still kept focus and sharpness on the image. I like your white balance control that brought interesting warm tones to the scene. Spectacle of nature and well captured by you. Well done!
Regards,
Carlos
PS: thanks for your words on my last post.

hay_kes (28562) 2007-12-06 13:51

Hi Danilo,
Woooooowww!!Great shot.Very beautiful light, colours, POV and details.Well done.TFS.

Regards.

hAyAti

Truja (4948) 2007-12-06 14:00

Hi Danilo,
mpressive image, of great magnitude and solidity! Perfect and magnificent lights that let appreciate multitude of details. Golden, reddish colors, are magnificent.
Very good work!!

Salut, Jordi

Emile (19901) 2007-12-06 14:40

Hola Danilo.
Splendid colors and light, very well captured despite the adverse conditions, good POV, sharpness and frame. The presence in your shot of people give a nice motion to the quiet place. Well done. TFS.
Best regards.

andr3w (559) 2007-12-06 20:08

Hi Danny!

Awesome colours and you were quite lucky to have a spot to position your camera.
I just noticed that the camera focused on the center which created some depth to the surrounding limestones.
I can't view the photo info but I guess a bigger f value and slower shutter could have probably gave more definition to the whole area above.

Regards,
Andrew

danos (32250) 2007-12-07 4:37

Hello Danilo,
very nice this shot in the luray caverns.I know how difficult is to capture in this environment because of my last trip in China,i tried to shot same parts of the cave that we have visited,have captured one or two, but i never uploaded them.I like the details in the parts of the cave that lighted ,as the people in the foreground.Informative your note too.

Regards,Danos

jhm (82297) 2007-12-07 5:18

Hallo Danilo,

Luray Caverns are almost a fairy tale house, or caves
Very good light and fantastic colours.
Always hard to take this kind of photos because the lighting and the people almost are before the camera.
Thanks for sahring.

Have a nice weekend,
John.

barrufeto_77 (25715) 2007-12-09 12:58

Hi Danilo.

That kind of pictures are always difficult but you did really well.

Excellent light management!

Rgs, Oscar

Benedict (7062) 2007-12-10 20:40

i had a hard time capturing any image of hinagdanan cave in panglao and now i could only wished i read your notes before i set sail there....:-)
golden colors, golden capture!
benedict

Muse (30893) 2007-12-11 11:41

Hello Danilo,
De magnifiques couleurs et une toute belle compo!
Best regards
Denise

Angshu (33585) 2007-12-11 19:51

Hello Danilo
With so many people around, I wonder whether you would have had place to put the tripod if you carried one. Excellent exposure to show us the light & shadow effect on the stalactites. I liked Daniel's WS, has definitely enhanced the visual impact. Very good work!
Regards
Angshu

mvdisco (11474) 2007-12-13 6:26

Hi Danilo,
Nice perpective and beautiful colors,
Excellent POV. and details,
lovely light and sharp picture.
Very well done..
Michel