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Gallery: LandscapePosted August 20, 2011605 views13 comments

Dear all,

From the heart of the Desert (Empty Quarter) one of the images I had through my past winter trip

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Canon 5D Mark II, Canon 16-35mm f/2.8 L II
Empty Quarter Desert, United Arab Emirates

as usual, your thoughts

Comments

13 comments

Comment posted by Hamed Musharbak on August 20, 2011 at 10:49 AM

great

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Comment posted by Joseph Campisi on August 20, 2011 at 2:20 PM

Great light and texture Abdulaziz! I like the well controlled sunstar.

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Comment posted by Marsel van Oosten on August 20, 2011 at 4:21 PM

Wonderful. Having spent several months in the Sahara myself recently, this really makes me want to go back. I like how you balanced the lower left corner and the upper right part of the shot.

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Comment posted by Lon Overacker on August 20, 2011 at 5:56 PM

Aziz,

This is fantastic. The light, details and patterns in the foreground ridge are just gorgeous. The light/shadow transition is wonderful as well and I think you did an expert job in controlling and handling the light/detail of the shaded dunes. I think it really creates a feeling of expanse and remoteness. The sunstar is just icing on the cake. Beautifully crafted and captured.

Lon

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Comment posted by Nick Bristol on August 20, 2011 at 8:23 PM

This is wonderful. Great comp with beautiful light and shadow. The pattern in the sand is fantastic, as is the sunstar! Great work!!

Nick Bristol
Lone Rock, WI

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Comment posted by Tony Kuyper on August 20, 2011 at 8:24 PM

I echo Lon's comments, especially the crafting. The tonality in this is excellent. There is an interesting visual tension too with off-center sun and the diagonal path largest area of foreground dunes.

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Comment posted by Bill Chambers on August 20, 2011 at 11:14 PM

Sweet shot. I'm especially enthralled with the soft light and shapes in the distant dunes, but the color and texture of the FG are great too. My only nit is there seems to be a couple of "squiggles" to the right of the sunstar - I might clone them, but that's minor.

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Comment posted by Abdullaziz Bin Ali on August 21, 2011 at 2:10 AM

Thank you all for your appearance here

Appreciate all what you have mentioned and thanks Bill, I'll try to clone it

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Comment posted by David Edwards on August 21, 2011 at 4:02 AM

A beautiful image, Abdullaziz. I love the high contrast and definition in the lower left in contrast to the smooth shadow tones in the mg. The softly highlighted form of the dunes is very nice also.

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Comment posted by Stefan Gimpl on August 21, 2011 at 7:21 AM

This is great Abdullaziz!!

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Comment posted by Yiming Hu on August 21, 2011 at 8:44 AM

Wonderful foreground and beautiful play of shadow and light. Love the star burst effect of the 16-35L.

Registered on April 28, 2011, 38 Posts, 733 Comments

Comment posted by Morris McClung on August 22, 2011 at 9:33 PM

Such beautiful light and color on the foreground sand. And it looks soft enough to be like talcum powder. The sunstar is a great accent.

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Comment posted by Chris Chamberlain on August 22, 2011 at 11:15 PM

I love the quality of light here, and the transition of that light into shadows. Very nice!

Chris

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