Luminous Landscape Forum
The Art of Photography => User Critiques => Topic started by: Jeremy Roussak on November 08, 2012, 02:37:55 pm
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Thoughts?
Jeremy
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What a gift that moment is Jeremy!,
But I feel I want to crop off the left OR crop off the bottom — but that's just me, it is after all your picture.
Cheers,
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Well-seen and captured. White Sands National Monument?
The blue cast in the shadows seems a little odd. Expected for snow, less so for sand.
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Well-seen and captured. White Sands National Monument?
Well, isn't sand supposed to be white in White Sands NM? Jeremy must still be shuffling through the sands of Death Valley!
:D
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Thoughts?
Jeremy
Sweet curves and very nice play of the light on the dunes.
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A beauty.
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A truly splendid shot, Jeremy. it's a relief and a pleasure.
From what I've seen on User Critiques during my 8 days on the road the posts seem to be tending more and more toward tourist snapshots rather than serious attempts at fine art photography. That comment probably will bring back "what is art?" head-banging from those who haven't been through the argument a time or two, but those familiar with the work of the masters know what art is and don't need to try to define it in words. For the most part, what I'm seeing on here lately isn't it.
We need more work like this on here.
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Thanks, all. I have played with various crops (this is part of a much larger and rather uninteresting panorama) but this one seems to me to be the nicest. François is right: it's part of the Mesquite dunes in Death Valley. I'm back, but my mind is still there. I'd not noticed a blue cast: maybe it's due somehow to the sRBG conversion.
Jeremy
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A great study of forms and shadows. I like how the greens complement the scene.
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I wish I'd taken it!
I fell in love with the dunes at Stovepipe Wells when I was in Death Valley.
Lovely shot, Jeremy!
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All been said - well done!
Mike.
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…I fell in love with the dunes at Stovepipe Wells when I was in Death Valley.
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I'm in love too... The dunes are easily accessible and a fantastic playground for photography. Last time I was there, I was so taken by the place that I ventured far away from the road. It took us more than three hours - at night - to get out of the dunes.
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Lovely Jeremy..
It reminds me of the red Kalahari sand dunes that I want to go back to one day with a camera and not a hunting rifle.
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I agree with you Russ.
If people are playing with software or toying with a new lens it shouldn't be posted here. I haven't been very active in here because I don't feel I've produced anything worth classifying as fine art.
Jeremy, you are one user of a couple that I keep my eye on in here, for what it's worth.
I do agree about the blue shadows. Otherwise, a nice capture to pour over.
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Robbie, I have a hunch you and Scott need to calibrate your monitors. I don't see a blue cast in the shadows with either of my desktop computer monitors calibrated with the Spyder 3 and constantly kept in calibration through the online Spyder sensor.
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You're probably correct Russ. I suppose I should hold off on my colour critiques until I get that done. Thanks for enlightening me.
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I'm in love too... The dunes are easily accessible and a fantastic playground for photography. Last time I was there, I was so taken by the place that I ventured far away from the road. It took us more than three hours - at night - to get out of the dunes.
I was on my own, so I thought I'd better be more cautious.
I loved the dunes but I found the whole place quite marvellous, with its wonderful contrasting landscapes in a fairly small area. I'm glad I ignored your (no doubt very well-meant) advice to avoid Death Valley. I was lucky, in that the storm front which entirely wrecked my stay in Bryce had passed over Death Valley just before I arrived and so the temperature didn't even hit 100° while I was there.
I've added it to my "go back" list. Two days is nowhere near enough.
Jeremy
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Robbie, I have a hunch you and Scott need to calibrate your monitors.
I think this might be right. I am seeing some clipped blue on an uncalibrated laptop but not on my calibrated desktop.
Lovely shot. What delights me is the quality of the composition - the refined energy and balance in the lines, forms, textures, colors.
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I missed this image until now - apologies to Jeremy.
I really enjoy this image.
The cast in the shadows don't bother me particularly.
Well done to Jeremy to see this result from a much larger composition.
Tony Jay
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I was on my own, so I thought I'd better be more cautious.
I loved the dunes but I found the whole place quite marvellous, with its wonderful contrasting landscapes in a fairly small area. I'm glad I ignored your (no doubt very well-meant) advice to avoid Death Valley. I was lucky, in that the storm front which entirely wrecked my stay in Bryce had passed over Death Valley just before I arrived and so the temperature didn't even hit 100° while I was there.
I've added it to my "go back" list. Two days is nowhere near enough.
Jeremy
I'm also glad that you had luck with the weather and went to DV. It's an amazing, magical place but it can be quite hostile once temperatures go above 45°c (112F). I just hope that you have no hard feelings against me for my "bad" advice.
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I'm also glad that you had luck with the weather and went to DV. It's an amazing, magical place but it can be quite hostile once temperatures go above 45°c (112F). I just hope that you have no hard feelings against me for my "bad" advice.
Of course not! As I wrote, I'm sure it was genuinely given and I can easily believe it would be uncomfortable if much hotter.
Jeremy
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Of course not! As I wrote, I'm sure it was genuinely given and I can easily believe it would be uncomfortable if much hotter.
Jeremy
Good! I feared that you would crush my head with your tripod!
8)
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I was on my own, so I thought I'd better be more cautious. ... I loved the dunes but I found the whole place quite marvellous, with its wonderful contrasting landscapes in a fairly small area.
Many years ago, I drove the washboard dirt road north, out of Death Valley, in an ordinary low-clearance 2WD car -- and remember the recurrent feeling that this would be a bad time for something to shake loose in the engine.
Dirt roads remind you that Death Valley NP is big.
The more intelligent route to my destination Eureka Dunes (http://www.nps.gov/deva/planyourvisit/eureka-dunes.htm) is out-and-back from Big Pine, along the mostly paved road. ("From the Ubehebe Crater Road you must travel 44 miles of graded dirt to the dunes. From the town of Big Pine there are 28 miles of paved road and 21 miles of graded dirt to the dunes. The final 10 miles of both routes is the narrow South Eureka Road.")
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Robbie, I have a hunch you and Scott need to calibrate your monitors. I don't see a blue cast in the shadows with either of my desktop computer monitors calibrated with the Spyder 3 and constantly kept in calibration through the online Spyder sensor.
I calibrated with a Spyder4 and this makes Jeremy's image look even more blue on a MacBook Pro. Relative to the old color profile, the warm hues in the sunny patches are also cooler. ???