Gallery: Man & NaturePosted March 26, 201378 views4 comments
Going through some old files I found this footprints on a recent trip to White Sands National Park.
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Comment posted by Mark Seaver on March 26, 2013 at 2:45 PM
Neat look at this footprint. I like how it stands out against the shape of windblown shapes in the sand.
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Comment posted by John Clulow on March 27, 2013 at 8:17 AM
I like this both visually and its implications regarding the transitory nature of our lives and their effects.
I liked it enough to try a few things with it in Photoshop which I'll mention in case you would like to experiment. I tried a number of alternative orientation; horizontal and vertical flips; and they produce some different effects, but in the end I liked the one you presented best.
However, I did like the effect of first desaturating the image and then doing a levels adjustment to pull both edge sliders closer to the shadow and highlight sides of the histogram. That seemed to make it a lot more dramatic and give additional texture. Just a thought.
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Comment posted by Barry Ashenhurst on March 29, 2013 at 1:50 AM
I kinda like that Rick. A suggestion though: have you tried processing it in Multiply Mode to get even more texture?
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Comment posted by Howard Cheek on April 4, 2013 at 7:30 PM
Just the way I would compose this, like the diagonal aspect, nice 'arch' too Rick
Great light & contrast that has worked really well here.
Sure would like to visit WS National Park someday..
Hey, the sand's actually white too
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4 commentsI liked it enough to try a few things with it in Photoshop which I'll mention in case you would like to experiment. I tried a number of alternative orientation; horizontal and vertical flips; and they produce some different effects, but in the end I liked the one you presented best.
However, I did like the effect of first desaturating the image and then doing a levels adjustment to pull both edge sliders closer to the shadow and highlight sides of the histogram. That seemed to make it a lot more dramatic and give additional texture. Just a thought.
Great light & contrast that has worked really well here.
Sure would like to visit WS National Park someday..
Hey, the sand's actually white too