Death Valley Dunes, Sinuous sculptures of sand 2/6 by Hedepo
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Death Valley Dunes, Sinuous sculptures of sand 2/6
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
Comments (13)
nfrocer
Fantastic shot!
Valentin
A quite hypnotic and beautiful image!!!
miincdesign
I would have never thought of this place in the US. What a wonderful shot. Great job, Henk.
bentchick
Now your in my territory!!! I love Death Valley! I was hoping to go there about a week ago, but plans changed. I always go there for about a week in March, not as hot then! Stunning shot of the dunes! My husband and I climbed them during a full moon one year and wish I had known how to do some night photography better! Cheers!
moochagoo
How beautiful (and quite hot, i've been there)
GiMi53
Beautiful curves... an image full of sensuality, Henk !
marybelgium
magnifique !
MrsLubner
The black and white shadow and light contrasts are outstanding. I really feel this is a very special photograph.
Ionel
Superb composition and wonderful post work, Henk!!!
RobyHermida
wonderful work Hedepo!!!
sharky_
A beautiful capture. Excellent... Aloha
olivier158
mmmm... very interesting technique, i was not knowing it till now, thank you very much for sharing it. I will try in my next pictures :oD So about the pic, it's really great, i like the textures and the very soft but superb result !
danob
Superb image