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David Eckels

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Death Valley Overlook
« on: February 10, 2016, 07:55:05 pm »

We'd been out in the Panamint Valley on a road that surely was designed by a chiropractor and were trying to get to Mesquite Flats for the sunset. I was speeding as we were losing the light fast, but when I came around the bend and beheld this glorious scene, I had to pull over and snap a few quick ones. By the way, we did make it just in time for the sunset on the dunes.

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Re: Death Valley Overlook
« Reply #1 on: February 10, 2016, 08:10:27 pm »

Nice layering. Good thing you didn't open the shadows too much (or at all).

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Re: Death Valley Overlook
« Reply #2 on: February 11, 2016, 03:43:17 am »

Excellent composition and colours.

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Re: Death Valley Overlook
« Reply #3 on: February 11, 2016, 08:09:19 am »

Death Valley is all about colors and those are great colors here. Wonderful!
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Re: Death Valley Overlook
« Reply #4 on: February 11, 2016, 09:52:46 am »

Great colours and layers, even to the sky.

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Re: Death Valley Overlook
« Reply #5 on: February 11, 2016, 10:01:16 am »

Honestly, as beautiful as this image is, I think the clouds are what make it!  Not sure what it is about them but they really do it for me!!

Congrats on a fantastic capture!!
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Re: Death Valley Overlook
« Reply #6 on: February 11, 2016, 10:47:52 am »

That's a glorious scene and you were certainly wise to stand on the brakes to get this photo. But, I must say that is seems over-processed to me. Those colors do not look real. Of course I wasn't there, but I have been out west quite a lot and I have never seen anything with colors like that. Any chance you could post a less processed version?
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Re: Death Valley Overlook
« Reply #7 on: February 11, 2016, 05:53:55 pm »

Ahhhhhh.  Towne Pass.  Gateway to Heaven for landscape photographers.  Having crossed that pass a dozen times or more, I can assure you that those colours are real.
Beautiful, David.  Well worth stopping for, even if there's nowhere to pull off. :)
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Re: Death Valley Overlook
« Reply #8 on: February 11, 2016, 07:45:46 pm »

Given the time of day and lack of haze the colour palette seems plausible to me.

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Re: Death Valley Overlook
« Reply #9 on: February 13, 2016, 10:52:32 am »

So, to Peter A, I confess to a wee bit of Briotizing, but not slidercide! ;)
The OP was more of a draft and I am satisfied with this final version.
Towne Pass: Thanks Peter M, I was wondering if there was a name for it.
Interesting about the concerns regarding color. The raw image looks nothing like what I saw, but the final does reflect my vision. Is that a conundrum?
Framah, agree about the clouds!
Thanks for all the wonderful comments.

PS Slobodan. I learned something very interesting. In reworking this, I thought I changed nothing in LR before moving to PS. But then I noticed the "cyanish" sky was no longer present. I was sure I'd done nothing different in LR, but remembering our conversation about profiles, I went back to look and sure enough, I had indeed changed the Camera Profile to Landscape and forgotten about it. Now will you quit ragging on me for "special" Nikon colors? ;) ;D
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Re: Death Valley Overlook
« Reply #10 on: February 18, 2016, 06:05:15 pm »

...Now will you quit ragging on me for "special" Nikon colors? ;) ;D

Nah, can't help it... you are too easy a target ;)
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