I've admired your work and commentary (including that on your website) for years. This excellent set once again reflects your substantive expertise at capturing your surroundings. Thank you, too, for your shooting explanations.
billsamuels wrote:
Really nice photos Dan. I really like #3 and #4 especially. #1 also has nice colors and textures. Bill S.
#1 is probably the most subtle (and perhaps conventional) of the bunch. #3 and #4 were made in remarkable conditions that I don't usually experience in DEVA, and it was my good fortune to be there as the sand storm was blowing, the passing front was still trying to drop virga (rain that doesn't reach the ground), and clearing skies to the west produced sunset and twilight color.
Bob49 wrote:
I've admired your work and commentary (including that on your website) for years. This excellent set once again reflects your substantive expertise at capturing your surroundings. Thank you, too, for your shooting explanations.
Thanks! I'm glad to hear that you visit the website, where I have been posting a new photograph daily for something like a decade now. For those who do like background text, those daily posts include this. There are also articles on various photographic topics at the website.
DaleBerlin wrote:
Very nice set Dan, congrats.
Thanks.
ArturS wrote:
What a great variety of light. The B&W has a special feeling to it.
Thanks. Although most of my photography is in color these days, my roots are in black and white film... since that's how I started so many years ago.
Dave Bachrach wrote:
Gorgeous, great set, Dan! Well done.
rbf_ wrote:
Amazing photographs! I especially like to first two dune shots
castlk52 wrote:
Beautiful images, every one of them. Well done and thanks for sharing them with us.
Thanks to all three of you. :-)
Today my wife (also a photographer, specializing in macro) shared a photograph she made while I was in the dunes making a couple of the photographs in this set I shared. I believe I had just finished the first one — you can see those dunes beyond my position — and I had turned to make the second one, the black and white 2:1 aspect ratio photograph that is #2 in the set. Here it is...
dakel wrote:
Very nice picture Dan. Curious if there is reason you did not post them any larger here?
Thanks.
Since I get asked this from time to time, I'll use this as an opportunity to explain. There are several reasons — here are a few:
1. I have a workflow that prepares several versions of images, including one set for posting on social media. For various reasons I make the images for that purpose have a 800 pixel dimension along the long side — plus the dimension of the "frame" around each image. They aren't created primarily for posting on FM, where many folks are used to a larger size, unfortunately.
2. While lots of photographers view things on the large monitors they (we!) use for our photography, most people view them on smaller phones, tablets, and laptops. On FM, there are downsides (and, admittedly, for some, upsides, too) to posting very large images. For example, I often cannot see those full images on my laptop screen. In addition, because image size sets column width on FM, the text describing/discussing the images also scrolls off the screen.
3. Many of us have had our images appropriated without permission for unlicensed/unauthorized uses. I understand that folks have a range of positions on this issue, but part of my own compromise (shared with a bunch of other photographers I know) is to share photographs that are large enough to see but less likely to be large enough to be useful for other purposes. (Those who license my images or purchase prints know that follow-up discussions will answer any questions they have about suitability.)
There's no perfect answer to this issue, I'm afraid. Different photographers come to a range of conclusions about the best option, and there's been plenty of discussion all over the online world about this. I wish I could safely and wisely share photographs that perfectly fill the screens of all who view them... but I can't. Sorry. :-)
Thanks Dan. Yes I was looking at the images on a high resolution monitor so they did appear smaller and harder to connect with than if I was viewing on an ipad for example.
Personally I actually have separate FM export preset on LR but I don't post enough here to remember what I set it to!!! I think it's max pixel dimension of 1400.
