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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
