Edited by Desert Rat on Feb 05, 2007 at 03:55 PM GMT
Posted by Daniel Buck on February 5, 2007 at 12:01 PM
What a neat place! I really want to get out there sometime. Nice images, I love the patterns in the sand!
Posted by Carol Hyman on February 5, 2007 at 12:36 PM
Eric, that last photo really captured my imagination with the layers of rock and foreground shadow. I'd have been so tempted to wait another 20 minutes so the shadow would have been higher on the rocks. It's been a long time since I've driven through Death Valley.
thanks for sharing.
Carol Hyman
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Posted by Dan Truong on February 5, 2007 at 11:36 PM
I like photos 1,4 and 6.
Photo 2, there's a bunch of ways to crop it into something I like, part of it is having the sky and the bottom ripples at the same time is too much for me.
3 is baren but not enough for me. I feel the composition too complex to instill that sense of dry desolation cracked ground implies. Have you tried harsher noon sun photos too, maybe exagerating contrast?
5 is the same. The bushes attract my eyes, but I feel the sand texture is more interresting. I would prefer having the rightmost bush only, which is well lit.
I think I would prefer photo 6 without the sky and the mountains cut to simplify the picture into a backdrop texture that yields the impression of immensity, and the cutout of people on the foreground, providing the sense of isolation. However a standard non-wide format would not render as well as just cropping this photo to a panoramic. If you're into editing, I'd also erase the people in the shadow.
What do you and other people think of this analysis? Any agreements or other points of vue?
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Edited by Desert Rat on Feb 05, 2007 at 03:55 PM GMT
thanks for sharing.
Carol Hyman
http://hy-tec-training.com
Photo 2, there's a bunch of ways to crop it into something I like, part of it is having the sky and the bottom ripples at the same time is too much for me.
3 is baren but not enough for me. I feel the composition too complex to instill that sense of dry desolation cracked ground implies. Have you tried harsher noon sun photos too, maybe exagerating contrast?
5 is the same. The bushes attract my eyes, but I feel the sand texture is more interresting. I would prefer having the rightmost bush only, which is well lit.
I think I would prefer photo 6 without the sky and the mountains cut to simplify the picture into a backdrop texture that yields the impression of immensity, and the cutout of people on the foreground, providing the sense of isolation. However a standard non-wide format would not render as well as just cropping this photo to a panoramic. If you're into editing, I'd also erase the people in the shadow.
What do you and other people think of this analysis? Any agreements or other points of vue?