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One of my favorite photograph from Death Valley. This photo is displayed on my first exhibition in Bratislava, Slovakia. Thanks for the comments.


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Who knew? Ansel Adams would be stupefied. I love it and hope to achieve a similar result in time. I think I'm buying a 30D this week....
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Looks nice, but a little bit oversaturated for me. But anyway I'm impressed.
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Very nice composition. Colours seems to be a bit oversaturated for my taste - but it is not a problem. The worst thing is the sky - it looks completely artificial and honestly I don't like it. There must have been too much post-production in it, which is a pity because it would be a great photo with some more natural look.
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Your unusual vision of the nature involves the spectator in a picture. It unusually pleasantly and sensitively.

 

Regards

 

Leonid Padrul

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Nice textures and composition altough too oversaturated for my liking. The sky ruins the photograph. It's just too much. I think less manipulation will keep the sky more natural while still retaining its dramatism.
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Nicely worked overall composition with foreground isolation element and nice foreground exposure, I agree with previous coments about the sky
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Actually, I am left wondering, why?... Looking at your other photos, I see an accomplished photographer. Your portfolio is filled with awesome, well treated images. You beat this one to death! Would you be kind enough to show us either the original or toned down version, please? Regards, d.d.
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just decrease the intensity of your high pass layer, at least over the background, and this becomes more believable. It is an awesome image and hardly needs any help to stand out as exceptional.
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Ahoj Flynn, I wonder how you got this DOF, did you use focus bracketing ? It does not seem likely to me that just stopping down the lens could render the image sharp at all depths, as the rock is very close. I am not a fan of the sky, it looks too artificial to me. Maybe too much of Shadow/Higlight tool ? Other than that, a great shot. Best regards. Peter
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Incredible emphasis on perspective and foreshortening. I too feel like this is near-to perfect with a small amount of color saturation reduction in the background. Works perfectly fine in the foreground. As another reviewer commented, I concurr that it might make this image more believable with reduced saturation for the mountain-range and sky? Just a thought.
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striking

 

I really like the way that the rock in the foreground echoes the shape of the mountain in the background.

 

While I do agree that the level of saturation is really high, that didn't turn me off until I read and re-read the objections to the saturation...

What *did* seem less than ideal to me is the darkness of the background. One of the other comments involved Ansel... he never would have let the background fall off like that but rather dodged it out a little (or burned the fore).

 

Cheers!

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One of my favorite photograph from Death Valley. This photo is displayed on my first exhibition in Bratislava, Slovakia. Thanks for the comments.
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Thanks for comments and as looked on my photo few more times I reedited this image all over and now you can see more natural colors and well lit background. Death Valley extreme elements get me too much excited. May be that is because I used my laptop screen which showed everything a little different than my home LCD monitor which is much better calibrated.

After this reediting I made couple copies of 16x24inch prints and I am happy with the results.

I hope to get to Death Valley again.

 

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Most excellent and worthy of any gallery/museum exhibit as is! Truly a superior image and I'm glad you agreed with some of the commentary and re-edited. Are you making prints available for sale?
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