Death Valley Dunes, Sinuous sculptures of sand 1/6 by Hedepo
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Death Valley Dunes, Sinuous sculptures of sand (1/6)
In May / June 2007 we made a trip through California with a RV-Motor-home.
One of the many highlights was Death Valley. Death Valley is an unique, but very hot place in the US.
Early in the morning we made a hike for a couple of hours exploring the sand dunes 9CLOSE TO Stovepipe Wells), including climbing the tops of a few of them. Light was that morning a little bit strange, with some haze in the direction towards the mountains.
I made a few photo’s and 6 of them I have turned into a duo-tone in the following way.
After adjusting the full color in the normal way with Photo-Shop, I converted the photo into a black & white by using the mode: Greyscale.
If required , I did some tuning in this phase.
The B&W image is converted with Photo-Shop into a “Duo-tone” with the following settings.
Ink 1, Black
Ink 2, Pantone 453C
If required some fine tuning can be made in this phase as well.
As final touch, a simple frame for the series of photo’s.
By means of this selection / conversion in photo-shop, the amount of white is strongly reduced and the photo turned into a “warmer toned” photo, at least in my opinion and fit for purpose aiming at a more abstracted view on this warm place early in the morning!!
Hope you like it,
Your comments are highly appreciated,
Have a very nice week
Henk
Death Valley Dunes, Sinuous sculptures of sand
Death Valley's most accessible sand dunes are just a few miles from Stovepipe Wells. Tucked into Mesquite Flat in the north end of the park, these dunes are nearly surrounded by mountains on all sides. The primary source of the dune sands is probably the Cottonwood Mountains which lie to the north and northwest. The tiny grains of quartz and feldspar that form the sinuous sculptures that make up this dune field began as much larger pieces of solid rock.
Comments (12)
krakosky
great mood
DCLEW2
Beautiful shot! love the B&W.
pteb
great capture.
amlondono
Awesome shot !
Tanchelyn
You've been to Zabriskie Point? (still searching for that movie...) Great shot. Looking forward to more. Ever tried Channel Mixer > monochrome and then tweaking the individual channels? Noy that this image needs it, far from that! Just a question.
mansco
Splendid, I really like this a lot ;O)
babuci
Very abstract, love the b&w tone.
MrsLubner
An astonishing shot. I have seen the dunes - only once many years ago - and I still think about the beauty and the grace in those dunes. this is such a wonderful shot!
sharky_
Very nice........ Aloha
marybelgium
wonderful !!!
RobyHermida
Awesome shot ! ROBY ;o)
marie-ancolie
First of all, I thank you for the nice comments om my post. Very much appreciated. I looked at your portfolio, and as I love B/W and monochrome/do-tones photograhpy, this one caught my eye. Thank you, and thanks also for viewing my website www.marie-ancolie.com