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Timmeh
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p.1 #1 · Death Valley - Dante's View for the New Year

Howdy all,

My wife and I took a trip out to Death Valley over the New Year (first time over to the race track. Hurray!). This was New Year's morning, so it was delightfully freezing. Any C&C on processing, comp, etc welcome and appreciated.

Tim

To the East
Canon EOS 5D Mark II 24 mm f/8.0 1/8 sec 100 ISO 0.0 EV

and the West
Canon EOS 5D Mark II 24 mm f/8.0 1/15 sec 100 ISO 0.0 EV

Jan 06, 2013 at 06:31 AM

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p.1 #2 · Death Valley - Dante's View for the New Year

Fantastic! This can be a very magical place. I was there in November 2011 with some similar conditions, with a narrow band of light across the Panamints. I love that you were able to get some foreground sun in the bottom pic. Well done.

Jan 06, 2013 at 02:39 PM

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p.1 #3 · Death Valley - Dante's View for the New Year

The second one for me. The Panamints are lit up very nice, juxtapose tho the dark looking snow caps and sky. Nice lines in the shot. Rick

Jan 06, 2013 at 03:06 PM

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p.1 #4 · Death Valley - Dante's View for the New Year

Both are nice, but the 2nd is very special. Great work.

Jan 06, 2013 at 05:36 PM

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p.1 #5 · Death Valley - Dante's View for the New Year

Thanks all! Just as an aside, does #2 look radioactive to some people? I just looked at it in Explorer and it looks terrible (Chrome it looks fine).

I was really happy with the quick show of light before the sun went behind the thicker clouds in #2. Unfortunately, later in the day the Race Track skies were bald.

Tim

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Jan 07, 2013 at 12:18 AM

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p.1 #6 · Death Valley - Dante's View for the New Year

The second one really is special indeed.

Jan 07, 2013 at 12:20 AM

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p.1 #7 · Death Valley - Dante's View for the New Year

Number two is a smoker! Especially the way the light is hitting those rocks in the foreground.

Bill

Jan 07, 2013 at 12:22 AM

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p.1 #8 · Death Valley - Dante's View for the New Year

The second one really does a great job showing the vast scale of this place. I love the quality of light on the mountains, and the fact that it's only a sliver. Did you try waving and seeing if you could see your shadow on the Panamints?

Jan 07, 2013 at 12:48 AM

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p.1 #9 · Death Valley - Dante's View for the New Year

Thanks AMaji, Bill, and Ben! I didn't try waving to see myself on the Panamints, but I did pose with my leg lining up with my tripod. It would've been a good self-portrait with my obvious form, but a less good landscape photo.

Tim

Jan 07, 2013 at 03:21 PM

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p.1 #10 · Death Valley - Dante's View for the New Year

Tim, I see both of these are shot at 24mm,, which lens did you use here ?

Jan 07, 2013 at 03:43 PM

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p.1 #11 · Death Valley - Dante's View for the New Year

I do have a number of 24mm lenses, don't I...

For both shots, I used my 24 tilt shift. For #1, I used it with a 1.4x teleconverter, so it's actually 33.6mm, and f/11 (TS-Es take converters, but don't recognize them electronically). #2 was shifted a few mm down, and tilted 1 or 2 degrees downward.

Tim

Jan 07, 2013 at 08:10 PM

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