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Equipment & Techniques => Landscape & Nature Photography => Topic started by: MTGFender on March 22, 2013, 12:25:23 am

Title: Great Sand Dunes National Park
Post by: MTGFender on March 22, 2013, 12:25:23 am: Alamosa, CO
Phase One IQ 180/Phase One DF/Mamiya 75-150mm at 150mm
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Title: Re: Great Sand Dunes National Park
Post by: Tony Jay on March 22, 2013, 07:17:33 am: Another interesting shot - sand dunes and snow-covered mountains in the same shot!
Treatment is excellent as a B&W too!

Tony Jay
Title: Re: Great Sand Dunes National Park
Post by: Eric Myrvaagnes on March 22, 2013, 09:40:09 am: Yes, a very nice one.
Title: Re: Great Sand Dunes National Park
Post by: francois on March 22, 2013, 10:32:16 am: I like those high dunes and the snow is really the icing on the cake!
Title: Re: Great Sand Dunes National Park
Post by: luxborealis on March 22, 2013, 04:30:23 pm: Great three-dimenisonality in this photograph - it seems like one of your best!

I'm moving to Colorado! There must be more areas of spectacular landscapes within a days drive of Colorado Springs than anywhere else – certainly more than we have here in southern Ontario! Don't get me wrong, I love it here in Ontario. In fact I have show coming up in April of Niagara Escarpment photographs and of course we have the Great Lakes and the Canadian Shield, but - WOW - such landscapes with some verticality just aren't common here.
Title: Re: Great Sand Dunes National Park
Post by: juliandecourcy on March 23, 2013, 06:20:51 am: Superb image and great treatment.
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Post by: wolfnowl on March 23, 2013, 01:23:02 pm: Well done. Thanks for sharing it!

Mike.
Title: Re: Great Sand Dunes National Park
Post by: Chris Calohan on March 23, 2013, 01:23:39 pm: I'm headed out west in about three weeks...out to southern Cal then up to Paradise, CA, back down and around to Reno, Salt Lake CIty, down to Moab then Grand Junction, Santa Fe, OK City and back home. Got to test out my new motorhome.
Title: Re: Great Sand Dunes National Park
Post by: thierrylegros396 on March 23, 2013, 03:22:32 pm: Quote from: luxborealis on March 22, 2013, 04:30:23 pm
Great three-dimenisonality in this photograph - it seems like one of your best!

I'm moving to Colorado! There must be more areas of spectacular landscapes within a days drive of Colorado Springs than anywhere else – certainly more than we have here in southern Ontario! Don't get me wrong, I love it here in Ontario. In fact I have show coming up in April of Niagara Escarpment photographs and of course we have the Great Lakes and the Canadian Shield, but - WOW - such landscapes with some verticality just aren't common here.

Yes I think it's your best :) :)

Well done.

Thierry
Title: Re: Great Sand Dunes National Park
Post by: MTGFender on March 23, 2013, 09:08:55 pm: Thanks very much my friends for your complements!
Tony/Francois..The picture was taken during the kids' fall break. That's why you can see snow.
Chris...I hope you will enjoy your new motorhome and the trip. I will be in Grand Canyon, Monument, Lake Powell in a week and 2 weeks in the Big Island in June. I can't wait!
Luxborealis...I've never been in South Ontario but from what I've heard, it's not bad at all!
Thanks Eric, Julian and Thierry.
Best,
Pramote
Title: Re: Great Sand Dunes National Park
Post by: Fine_Art on March 25, 2013, 04:21:58 pm: It is a fine shot, probably spectacular as a high rez print. A minor quibble is that at this particular resolution the anti-aliasing (stair-step edge smoothing) makes it look a bit rendered as in CGI. Clearly that is not the case it is a great photo. The fine natural detail just looks a bit rounded to me. Maybe it is just me.