I know Butch Cassidy and the Wild Bunch hid out in these canyons, but I don’t know how they found there way in and out. It’s just one dead end after another an I suspect it is why they were never caught there. They knew something the posse’s didn’t.
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Your choice but the hard part of shooting in the badlands is that depending on the direction or time of day, most everything never looks the same.
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Is this a composite: No
D810, 24-120 @ 46mm, f9, 1/500, ISO 500 +1 EV
I would add a color cast to it. Since the entire subject is basically warm then that’s how I would present it. I would also reduce the contrast. I don’t know if you’ll like these suggestions but that’s the direction I would go.
A beautiful place and a beautiful photo specially in the Igor interpretation. The low contrast creats a pictorial image with pastel colors and shows a lot of details . I love it.
I had to sit on this image for a few days to digest Igor’s suggestion, and while it has merit in how the Badlands are often presented, the truth is that the Badlands is a stark, arid and mostly colorless outcropping in South Dakota that only has the warm colors Igor suggests via LR or Photoshop. I wanted to present a more realistic interpretation even though I had presented a far more colorful one days earlier.
When I made this shot, I was really thinking how anyone survived there unless they had inside information as to where the safe watering holes were. I will keep the image as is, presenting it as the hostile environment it really is.
I am always open to suggestions but it doesn’t always translate that I agree with the suggestions. I just felt like you warmed the image past what I saw when I was there. For the most part, the Badlands are nothing more than thin sandstone and to a large degree lack hard color, though to contradict myself, depending on the time of day, you can get some striking colors there.
Neither of us should lose sleep over this. I should have been more specific, or perhaps just posted it in the showcase section. I promise to be more careful now.
