This is from a recent trip with Tim ONeill, Alan Lichty and Ted Williams down to Death Valley. Though the weather was not spectacular it was for from terrible, little wind brought increasing footprints to the foregroound at the dunes and comps. without cloning almost impossible. Hope this comp. works for you, C&C welcome
Seems awfully dark Rick and while this was close to real darkness when you shot it you could easily bring up the exposure a bit to bring out more details. I like the lonely bit of vegetation at the bottom. You are making me wish I had trekked up that dune now
HI Rick, I'm going to have to agree with Alan and Carlo, just looks a bit flat, but I do like the comp.
cheers Andrew
PS remember me? - I used to be redsoxdesign!
Rick
A very nice comp. Since I sucked you into this IR stuff, I need to remind you to watch your histogram. Pardon my hijack of your thread, but a simple levels adjust did a lot.
Also, try to make your posts bigger than 50 Kb. Maybe the medium setting if you re using iPhoto for the upload. http://i.pbase.com/o6/99/15999/1/141477645.m0hCS1G4.MesquiteDunesIR.jpg
I like your composition again. Soothing lines and well seen. I don't think pulling more detail out of the distant hillside/mtn is helping though. What are you doing with the jpegs? They are all very low quality. I think you have a lot to work with (without seeing the RAW file). But I am not responding to these edits. It's hard for me to recommend a direction to take the file in without seeing a high quality raw image but I think there is something there. Working with the lines would be my aim. I don't think this photo calls for a pure white point either, it just looks wrong in these lighting conditions. So I think you have right.
Rick, I like the composition, but unfortunately, IR does not work on sand (I tried). Sand dissipates heat way too uniform, and that causes low contrast.
