Sandy Sunrise

Image Critiques Landscape Critiques
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I got treated to nice clouds one morning out in Death Valley last week.

D850, 24-70mm

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Totally outstanding one here, Harley. The warm lighting is gorgeous.
The dark foothill BG makes a nice distance barrier as the overall depth is excellent with the FG & MG setting this up perfectly… :+1: :+1:

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Damn, what a difference a day makes but it appears you were able to only get your lazy butt a few yards from the camper. I had hoped you’d be standing on that tall dune. Seriously, this is some beautiful light in the clouds and reflected on the dunes. Processing looks great.

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Dang, what a glorious sunrise, Harley. What stands out the most for me is how the shape of the cloud mimics the land below it. Something to nit out of this composition is only that the tallest dune merges with the background mountain ridge.

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Beautiful light, Harley, love the clouds…only a few yards from the camper…more time for relaxing and coffee :wink: No nits from me.

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Great shot, Harley. I could see this a a thin panorama, eliminating the open foreground and starting at the brush line and cropping the same amount of sky. Nice morning desert image.

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I pretty much agree with Dave’s critique. The colors are great, as is the tonal variability, but the composition has that look of being shot from a car window.

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Harley, what a marvelous image, the photo gods smiled on you for this sunrise. Clouds don’t get much better than this especially at Death Valley. Your processing of these wonderful conditions looks right on the money to me.

I’m partially in agreement with Stephen on the composition. I could see a crop from the bottom, just below the brush line. However I would prefer to leave the sky as presented, and just make a crop from the bottom. You almost have a 50/50 horizon here, and while I think it works that way, my preference would be to take a little off the bottom. I think it would lend more prominence to the sunlit dunes. But either way this is a quite lovely image.

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Gorgeous Harley! Fantastic morning sky and the landscape ain’t to shabby either. I especially like the dark ridge separating the main elements. I did react however to the merging of the tallest dune with that dark ridge just like Adhika. Not a deal killer by any stretch, just one of those eye magnet things.

A more pano crop could work also - as an alternate view, but as presented is pretty glorious as is.

Lon