Borrego Badlands Sunset #003

Resubmission. Adjusted artifacts line from hard ND Grad. Comments

appreciated.

Can't stop looking at this one...stunning image!

What an astonishing picture!

 

Love the colors, the details, the composition, everything in deed.

 

Touch

very nice light, good job keep clicking

There is a roughness and tenderness in this photo.

And also hope if this is a rising sun.What a glorious scene.Thanks for sharing...

1/1??? What gives?

Fantastic light. Regards. 7/6.

Really beautiful work!

Too much PS, GND, or both it. The foreground is so brighter than the middle with the light source coming from the back that it looks un-natural to me.

Looks like a scene out of Lord of the rings - Great result

Agree with Jim. This one feels like someone turn on the light while you are watching movie, it's hard to use the RAW format, great shot anyway.

Too fakey looking for my taste...but thats just me. Everyone's entitled to their own opinions. Some like surreal looking photo-paintings like this.

Oh, let me be clear... there are several elements leading to this the surreal feeling. There's a crazy amound of grads in front of the lens and then some work in PS w/ levels, etc. Of course it didn't look like this out there. But, I had a bit of fun w/ it and wanted it to appear other worldly.

 

So... I didn't really do anything wild liek add any colors or add a fake sky, but it wasn't meant to re-create the scene that I saw. Perhaps next time I will go with that goal in mind.

 

Thanks for the comments.

When I view it in thumbnail It look like a storm in a ocean!

Yongbo is right , the foreground is bit bright , even then a great location and very good shot ...

Bravo, maestro!

Great texture, mood, colour and light.

 

I recommend you soften the graduation between the mountains and the middle of the frame though.

Looks fake and like it's undergone heavy post-processing, but so do most "Photos of the Day."

For anyone born before PS came into wide use, it's obvious that a high contrast scene like this requires graduated ND filtering. And that has long been a method to create dinstinguished images that stand out from those of Joe Photographer. Just look through nature photography magazines and similar publications. I don't think the colors are unnatural at all, but it does have an extreme range of exposure lattitude. Maybe that looks unnatural to folks who are accustomed to the very unnaturally narrow exposure lattitude of both slide film and digital sensor. Personally, I think the image is successful. Cheers, -CM

A very unique image. A fun one to look at. But...it looks like two shots. A sunrise ( or sunset ) with the twisted landscape with more direct lighting. THe sun just seems too low on the horizon to light the forground that way. It's a cool shot non the less.