Purple Ripples

Here is the digital version.

Great lines and patterns in both. I do prefer the first version for the more unique colors that the Velvia produced.

Wonderful color and texture!

Velvia ;) Nice work

aF

The Velvia days following the Kodachrome days into the digital daze.

I prefer the first Yiming. Smoother transition of tones. The second has higher contrast.

I prefer the first one Yiming. Less contrasty, and I love the lavender light. Looks like alpenglow!

Definitely the first one. A beautiful image and the color is just fantastic! Gotta love Velvia.

I like the abstract designs in the sand and the color in the first image is softer and has less contrast. Well see and photographed.

The colors really make the first sing!

I like the first one, hands down. Very pretty light!

I will say that I think that the upper dune ridge actually detracts from the comp because it doesn't have enough breathing room around it. I think if you cropped the top off, and some of the bottom to match, that you would have a perfectly balanced, semi-abstract image that would knock socks off.

Great abstract! I prefer the velvia image, the purples just seem so nice and organic, I also prefer the crop on that image.. Great catch!!

My vote is for the Velvia as well. Nice work!

I like both versions, but the color of the first is very engaging. The difference from "real" is very attractive in this case.

I'd go second for sure. I'm not much for shocking colors like that if their a by-product of the film. Seems more of a photo-art kind of thing to me; I actually checked to see which gallery you posted in when I saw the color. (Although, of course I realize that's a personal opinion, and, as an aside, I've never shot film.) The sand patterns in both are terrific of course.

i'm enjoying the contrast levels of the first but would tone down those magentas a touch!!

This is quite beautiful and the patterns are fascinating in the low light. The color works great for me. So nice to see a somewhat different take on the usual "sand patterns" theme. I'll take the film version.

Thanks everyone for your comments and suggestions.

My comment is neither positive or negative...but a question. It seems the consensus opinion is pretty postive for the purple sand here. I do quite a bit of gallery work and when I attend openings by far the most common question has to do with the use of photoshop as it relates to colors...and people don't seem to like it. My question is do you think the positive response here is because this was done with film or is it because it is an audience of landscape photographers that are more forgiving when it comes to processing? Just curious if anyone has an opinion on this - sorry to open up this can of worms

The first one is great Yiming, love the soft pink tones and contrast, very pleasing!

Rick: very interesting question.

When I show my photos to my non-photographer audience, often the first question is "Has this photo been Photoshopped? / It is an original photo from the camera?" I tried very hard to educate them that in digital photography there is no such thing as "original", but I have to admit that my effort is not very successful.

If I show them a photo taken with a "landscape-type" slide film --- Velvia or E100VS, they will say "WOW! Incredible! Beautiful!" In these photos, the colors are so saturated, the sky so blue. the red so bright, and the snow on the ground is as blue as night sky. The colors and contrast are so different from their everyday experience, but they will not complain, as long as I told them it was captured on film and it is not PS'ed.

If I show another digital version with half the saturation/contrast of those of slide film, and admit that I need post-processing to achieve the effects, most of them will scream "fake". LOL.

There was a period of time I carried a 35mm film body with me. I shot with digital first, and switch to slide film to capture the same scene again. If later someone complained about my work "too much PSed", I can show him the slide version to shut him up. , even though I don't use the slide version to make prints.

You see, we photographers often are not proud about post processing. Often also prefer (or secretly wish) our work are "captured at the moment"

Of course, I don't care anymore. Now I shot mostly digital only, although once in a while I still play with film, just for fun. And I have too many rolls in my fridge and I need to get rid of them anyway.

Beautiful colors and texture. The Velvia one is better, as expected.

They're both great, but I particularly love the Velvia version. It's a great abstract. The colors look like an otherworldly twilight to me.. fantastic. Such wonderful ripples to catch all that light!