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cjogo

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Dunes
« on: January 14, 2013, 10:03:10 pm »

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Re: Dunes
« Reply #1 on: January 14, 2013, 10:15:17 pm »

4x5 Sinar    450mm Nikkor   Death Valley
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Colorado David

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Re: Dunes
« Reply #2 on: January 14, 2013, 10:32:04 pm »

Very well done.

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« Reply #3 on: January 15, 2013, 01:43:19 am »

What he said, me too.  Russ would say it's 'the presence of man in the landscape', but I think the abstration of the trail of footprints is really important.

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Re: Dunes
« Reply #4 on: January 15, 2013, 03:50:43 am »

Excellent. I can't help wondering what it would look like in colour, though.

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Re: Dunes
« Reply #5 on: January 15, 2013, 04:18:23 am »

Nice textures and evocative.

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Re: Dunes
« Reply #6 on: January 15, 2013, 06:30:09 am »

It's a very nice image with curves and textures. The footsteps don't bother me at all, in fact I like the path they form.
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Re: Dunes
« Reply #7 on: January 15, 2013, 09:00:58 am »

i agree with Mike. I have spent many hours in PS removing footprints in dunes, but here they do complement the image.
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Re: Dunes
« Reply #8 on: January 15, 2013, 01:41:30 pm »

Excellent. I can't help wondering what it would look like in colour, though.

Jeremy

Shoot about 15% of my images in colour .... just found it difficult to sell in this market on the West Coast.   
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Re: Dunes
« Reply #9 on: January 15, 2013, 01:44:44 pm »

i agree with Mike. I have spent many hours in PS removing footprints in dunes, but here they do complement the image.


I thought the footsteps just had a different uniformity to the natural curves in the distant dunes.  I walked a long way and my capturing the footsteps reinforced my efforts > in the task of working in Death Valley. 
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Re: Dunes
« Reply #10 on: January 16, 2013, 02:00:25 pm »

Very interesting shot, the top right is just getting a little too light for me otherwise very good, great textures i was hoping the marks on the sand dune top were those of a rattle snake rather than a drab old human...lol

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Re: Dunes
« Reply #11 on: January 17, 2013, 10:25:33 pm »

Very nice, but I think if you cut off 1/3 of the bottom foreground and make the diagonal equal it is even more appealing... to my eye. The heavy texture and busyness of the lines at the bottom, are actually  drawing my down and out out the frame, not up and to the top.  Optical delusion ::)
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Re: Dunes
« Reply #12 on: January 18, 2013, 01:26:46 am »

Very nice, but I think if you cut off 1/3 of the bottom foreground and make the diagonal equal it is even more appealing... to my eye. The heavy texture and busyness of the lines at the bottom, are actually  drawing my down and out out the frame, not up and to the top.  Optical delusion ::)
David

Now that I look at again -- could be two photos in one ...this is cropped already from the original ... have not really looked at this picture since the 80's //\\   It could stand a little more cropping  >> thanks
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Re: Dunes
« Reply #13 on: January 18, 2013, 01:31:21 am »

Very interesting shot, the top right is just getting a little too light for me otherwise very good, great textures i was hoping the marks on the sand dune top were those of a rattle snake rather than a drab old human...lol

Shaun

I worked hard to have the right fall off in the light -- this is sunrise > very contrasty.  The distant mountains were just too far away with the depth of field ( 450mm Nikor  f 22 ) darkening them would just look fuzzy/clumpy .. take your eye away from the main dune & its shadow/peaks.  

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