Finding Angles at White Sands

[JimFox]

On this one in White Sands National Moment last month the sun was getting lower in the sky, still about an hour before sunset I think, so I wanted to try a minimalistic image with the sun in the image. Hopefully this works out. I could with Shadow Recovery, completely recover the closest dune and show the ripples in it. But when I played around with that, I thought it lost some impact so I left it pretty much straight out of the camera.

It is 2 images, one for the sky and one for the ground where I used the finger over the sun trick to prevent lens flares. There actually was very little flaring with the 24-200mm Nikon lens, but there was a bit, and since I had shot it with 2 shots, it was way faster just to blend the 2 layers, that work on removing the lens flare itself.

All comments are welcome,

Jim

 

[AlanLichty]

Great result and I like the more silhouetted look to the final scene as opposed to a lot of shadow recovery.

 

[Jameel Hyder]

The hint of ripples in the foreground with enough light and the farther mound dark matches the light in the sky from left to right. Nicely done.

 

[BlackRockArt]

Jim, this is really neat, I love your little finger trick & will try it next time.

Oliver

 

[JimFox]

Great result and I like the more silhouetted look to the final scene as opposed to a lot of shadow recovery.

Thanks Alan! It was hard for me to leave the Shadow Recovery slider untouched....

 

[JimFox]

The hint of ripples in the foreground with enough light and the farther mound dark matches the light in the sky from left to right. Nicely done.

I appreciate that Jameel.

 

[JimFox]

Jim, this is really neat, I love your little finger trick & will try it next time.

Oliver

It's an old trick we have used for years, but I did share it as I know not everyone knows of it. I am glad to have shared something new for you.

Thanks for the encouraging comment!