"282 feet below"
Nikon D2X, Tamron 14mm F2.8
I took this shot last week while in Death Valley. I got lucky with the rays of light shinning through. As a kid photographer, I always thought it looked like God coming through the clouds in a ray of light.
posted by Steve at 10:47 PM
9 comments
9 Comments:
This shot and the moving rock are great images! They look like something from another planet.
Eric
Yes, I agree with Eric wholeheartedly - these 2 photos of yours blow me away, Steve - great!!
-- SteveR
Stunning photo!!!
--Warren
Thanks for the compliments. I want to share the technique for getting the sunset shot. The shot was done in two parts (both without moving the camera on the tripod) The first shot was set to properly expose the sky and the second indentical shot was set to properly expose the foreground. BTW, the exposures were 2 full stops apart. Then I dragged one image on top of the other in photoshop, erased the overexposed sky from one to allow the properly exposed sky to shine through. Since there were two layers involved, I was able to individually adjust color balance and levels of the sky separate from the foreground. The foreground had this icy looking blue tinge that made it look natural with the dark blue sky background. This would have been a tough shot to do in the old film days...lots of dodging and burning.
I'll share some more of my death valley shots as soon as I process the images.
Steve
hi Steve, thank for sharing your post-processing technique for this shot. In the old days, we might have used a split neutral density filter to get the exposure right on film before further adjusting in the darkroom.
--Warren
That is such a nice picture! It makes me feel like I'm traveling through time, but paused one second to take in the beautiful landscape. The sky and the ground both have that movement feeling.. very cool!
Great on-the-spot as well as photoshop techniques,thereby yielding such an impressive picture. I wonder though, why is it titled "282 feet below"?
PAT
Comments above are exactly what I would say also. Great shot with a very surreal look. Sand looks like it could almost be snow. I'll bet it would be a stunning black & white photo.
Pat,
The title "282 feet below" (sea level) is the actual elevation of Bad Water, the location of this shot. Bad Water is the lowest spot on the lower 48 states which is less than 100 miles from the highest point in the lower 48, Mt. McKinley.
Benson,
I will have to turn this into a B+W to see how it looks. i don't have a good work flow for doing that other than using the desaturate function. I know it works much better using channels, but zi don't know the process yet.
Steve
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