CC: White Sands

funnelwebmaster · Feb 12, 2020

Dusk on the dunes on an April evening.

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Blind Bill · Feb 12, 2020

I like that one !

gavin · Feb 12, 2020

very nice

Gary from Seattle · Feb 12, 2020

Although I am sure the scene is over-dramatized, I love the effect on this image.

BlueRay2 · Feb 12, 2020

there is too much foreground sand, i think if you crop a bit of sand in the front it'll bring the background closer and will look real nice, me thinks. i enlarged the photo, it looked real nice with sand area trimmed a bit.

Prufroc · Feb 13, 2020

Great photo! I like the cool color tones.

hypercore360 · Feb 13, 2020

Perhaps it's my work monitor, but looks the sand has a rather blueish tint to it. So that sort of throws me off a bit, or is that your intent to have such a tint, rather than a natural yellowish color to the sand.

wgosma · Feb 13, 2020

hypercore360 said:
Perhaps it's my work monitor, but looks the sand has a rather blueish tint to it. So that sort of throws me off a bit, or is that your intent to have such a tint, rather than a natural yellowish color to the sand.

I see the blue tint also; might be worth tweaking the white balance, see what one gets.

Nice shot!

mreynolds767 · Feb 13, 2020

Love the foreground white sand. The lines are amazing!

Would like to say I love the image but something about the sky does not look natural to me.

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funnelwebmaster · Feb 13, 2020

hypercore360 said:
Perhaps it's my work monitor, but looks the sand has a rather blueish tint to it. So that sort of throws me off a bit, or is that your intent to have such a tint, rather than a natural yellowish color to the sand.

I took the photo during the Blue Hour.

stretchman · Feb 13, 2020

mreynolds767 said:
Love the foreground white sand. The lines are amazing!

Would like to say I love the image but something about the sky does not look natural to me.

I would agree. Still nice!

Garthom · Feb 13, 2020

funnelwebmaster said:
hypercore360 said:

Perhaps it's my work monitor, but looks the sand has a rather blueish tint to it. So that sort of throws me off a bit, or is that your intent to have such a tint, rather than a natural yellowish color to the sand.

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I took the photo during the Blue Hour.

I don't mean to tell you when you took your own photo, but you can clearly see sunlight hitting the clouds and the dunes on the right side of the image, so I'm pretty sure this wasn't taken during the blue hour. I think the blue cast was more likely caused by whatever processing made the sky look like that. I like the composition, and the sand ripples in the foreground are beautiful, but like others have mentioned the sky kind of ruins it for me. If that's what you were going for, chalk it up to personal preference, but I would consider reprocessing to make the sky look more natural.

funnelwebmaster · Feb 13, 2020

Garthom said:
funnelwebmaster said:

hypercore360 said:

Perhaps it's my work monitor, but looks the sand has a rather blueish tint to it. So that sort of throws me off a bit, or is that your intent to have such a tint, rather than a natural yellowish color to the sand.

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I took the photo during the Blue Hour.

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I don't mean to tell you when you took your own photo, but you can clearly see sunlight hitting the clouds and the dunes on the right side of the image, so I'm pretty sure this wasn't taken during the blue hour. I think the blue cast was more likely caused by whatever processing made the sky look like that. I like the composition, and the sand ripples in the foreground are beautiful, but like others have mentioned the sky kind of ruins it for me. If that's what you were going for, chalk it up to personal preference, but I would consider reprocessing to make the sky look more natural.

Thank you.

hypercore360 · Feb 14, 2020

Ok, sounds good!

funnelwebmaster said:
I took the photo during the Blue Hour.

funnelwebmaster · Feb 14, 2020

hypercore360 said:
Ok, sounds good!

funnelwebmaster said:

I took the photo during the Blue Hour.

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Or maybe it was the Golden Hour, I forget....

hypercore360 · Feb 14, 2020

Golden hour is in the AM; Blue Hour in the PM; You're not sure if it was AM or PM that you took the image? Fair enough.

funnelwebmaster said:
hypercore360 said:

Ok, sounds good!

funnelwebmaster said:

I took the photo during the Blue Hour.

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Or maybe it was the Golden Hour, I forget....

stretchman · Feb 14, 2020

hypercore360 said:
Golden hour is in the AM; Blue Hour in the PM; You're not sure if it was AM or PM that you took the image? Fair enough.

I thought that the Golden hour was the light at sunrise/sunset and the Blue hour was the twilight before or after sunrise/sunset?

Sagittarius · Feb 14, 2020

stretchman said:
hypercore360 said:

Golden hour is in the AM; Blue Hour in the PM; You're not sure if it was AM or PM that you took the image? Fair enough.

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I thought that the Golden hour was the light at sunrise/sunset and the Blue hour was the twilight before or after sunrise/sunset?

And you are correct.

knutte · Feb 14, 2020

hypercore360 said:
Perhaps it's my work monitor, but looks the sand has a rather blueish tint to it. So that sort of throws me off a bit, or is that your intent to have such a tint, rather than a natural yellowish color to the sand.

I've never been there but wanted to go, it's "White Sands" so the sand doesn't have the "normal" yellowish hue which can also be confirmed by lot of othere images.

knutte · Feb 14, 2020

The footprints ruin it for me. When I'm in DeVa NP I always try to find a spot without footprints. And looks like overuse of polarizer. Otherwise I really like the image. Hope I can go there soon.

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