Death Valley Dunes, Sinuous sculptures of sand 5/6 by Hedepo
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Death Valley Dunes, Sinuous sculptures of sand 5/6
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 (close 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 weekend
Henk
Comments (12)
marybelgium
beautiful serie !
MrsLubner
Wow, Henk! You really got some great light working in this one. Your post work is masterful to have done so much to electrify this. This is a fabulous piece of artwork with the layers of incredible scenery throughout.
iaacf
Very beautiful shapes of the dunes and the patterns in them. The B&W works fine.
RobyHermida
Excellent work!! Very beautiful
vlaaitje
wow, awesome work, love the patterns
Ionel
Another wonderful image, Henk!!!
Georges_H_Hoens
This is a marvelous shot Henk! very esthetic and perfectly composed!!!
Trollmac
Great capture!
unstrung65
...extraordinary desert landscape....just beautiful.
GiMi53
After seeing the complete series of 6, this picture in Death Valley is definitively my favorite ! But the 5 others are extra-ordinary too : your postwork technique is perfect and each image is a great piece of art. Excellent work, Henk.
Enjoy your WE !
sharky_
The lighting in the back really brings this one out. Beautiful. Aloha
FriedaFelicia
Beautiful light and textures. Love the vastness and feeling of solitude! Looks gorgeous in b&w. Excellent presentation.