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Gallery: LandscapePosted June 25, 2014218 views9 comments

Late afternoon, Badwater Basin, Death Valley

I was surprised to see the scale of these formations. From earlier photos I have seen I had gotten the impression they were much smaller. They are actually several feet across.

Three Raw exposures for DOF, hand blended in PS CC, processed in LR5, TK resize/sharpening for web. Canon T3i, 1/60 s, f/9, ISO 100, EFS 10-22 @ 10 mm, CPL

Please view the large image!

Seeking any and all advice and comments. Thanks in advance.

Comments

9 comments

Comment posted by Rick Turner on June 25, 2014 at 10:48 AM

Very well done Ronald.

Been to Bonneville Salt Flats and these formations are of another world.

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Comment posted by Preston Birdwell on June 25, 2014 at 12:47 PM

Nice DV image, Ronald. The light is very nice and has given you some great texture. Good job!

--P

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Comment posted by Carol Hyman on June 25, 2014 at 1:03 PM

I like your POV very much. Beautiful job.

Carol

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Comment posted by Harley Goldman on June 25, 2014 at 5:49 PM

Very well done. The perspective does a nice job of showing the wide open spaces stretching out from the detailed foreground. Real nice.

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Comment posted by Ken Smith on June 25, 2014 at 9:58 PM

Fascinating. I enjoy the details up close of this natural wonder. It perks my interest as to how those puddle boundaries or dikes were formed. Nice distant cloud and light beams…a bit small…but seemingly difficult to enlarge in this comp. Nicely done!

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Comment posted by Richard Teller on June 25, 2014 at 9:59 PM

I like the depth of this image and the way the lines lead the eye into the image.

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Comment posted by Genny K. on June 25, 2014 at 10:07 PM

You did a great job on this, and it looks much different than it did when I was there. Cool! They didn't have the flat areas in the middle when I was there; it was just sort of all rough. I like this, it's mesmerizing.

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Comment posted by Nick Bristol on June 27, 2014 at 3:11 PM

Ronald, You really did a nice job with this capture and I like it a lot! Really an interesting image to view. I think your comp works great and I love the light and wonderful detail! Nice work on the processing as well.

Nick Bristol
Lone Rock, WI

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Comment posted by Dan Kearl on June 27, 2014 at 6:59 PM

Wild landscape formations, your Death Valley photos has inspired me to take a trip there.
Very nice perspective....

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