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Another White Sands sunset

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Posted by David Bartlett _CO on December 16, 2010 at 1:32 PM
Another White Sands sunset
Not really sure about this one.
D200
24-85mm @75mm
f/3.6
Tripod

??? I just finding this one interesting.
Posted by Koveh Tavakkol on December 16, 2010 at 1:34 PM
Beautiful shot Dave. My only nit is that it seems OOF/blurry, probably because of the F-stop used. Any reason why you did not go longer shutter speed instead?
Posted by David Bartlett _CO on December 16, 2010 at 2:09 PM
Koveh, I tried to remove too much noise which removed too much detail.

Here is another shot which has more detail and warmth.

Thanks,
Dave
Posted by CAZ on December 16, 2010 at 2:32 PM
Hey David:

If you crop this just above the foreground dune with the vegetation I think you'll end up with one heck of a nice pano.
Posted by Joshua Hardin on December 16, 2010 at 7:12 PM
The repost is much better David, just waaaay too much noise reduction on the first one. :smile: Sometimes a small amount of noise, especially in sandy environments, is not a terrible thing if it complements the apparent sharpness of an image. The warmer color balance of the repost is also a vast improvement. I like CAZ's cropping suggestion, I think that would be a nice image to see after it is applied, but I also like the framing as-is too.
Posted by Bob Karcz on December 17, 2010 at 7:21 AM
Dave- I agree with CAZ- try the crop!
Posted by Jason J. Hatfield on December 20, 2010 at 9:40 PM
Hmm, I'm split on this one. I like the top half but not the bottom half.