Very nice!! Lovely ripples in the sand with the subtle reflected colors, and a very interesting BG. I get the impression of a slight disconnect between the FG and BG colors, though. I can’t guess if they have been treated separately but wonder about removing some red from the BG. I love the sunlight in the UR corner!
Your overall scene is quite enjoyable Mario, with a “peaceful, ease, feeling.” I agree the sun works well with that brightness peeking in from the corner.
Two considerations you might play with. First, the sands around the grass clumps seem overly yellow compared to the rest of the sand. (This is especially noticeable in the smaller version.) Second, although I typically tend to prefer higher saturation than the average NPN photographer, this one looks better to me with the saturation lowered a bit.
Thank you for the comments John. Interestingly one of the reasons I made the image was the lighting around the shrubs. As I have said in other images the graphite tends to appear like ambient color due to its translucency. That is what is occurring here.
Hi Mario,
The light you captured here is magical and I love the way it transitions across the scene. This image has a soft delicate mood to it that I find very inviting. You also created a wonderful depth to it with all of the layers from FG to BG. While I quite like this as is I think getting rid of those two mounds with the brush would elevate this another notch and make it more of an abstract. Just my opinion of course. Very nicely done.
