I've shared a lot of photographs of Death Valley's Lake Manly recently. It is a somewhat uncommon event when the playa floods and the lake forms, so I wanted to take advantage of it. But that isn't all that I photographed during my two visits this past winter. Here are a few more photographs that are not Manly at all. (One confession: I usually head off to some more remote areas of the park, but this season I mostly photographed in the front country.)
Monika C wrote:
Some very nice intimate 'scapes. Always good to slow down & look down.
Thanks, Monica. After photographing here for a few decades, more and more I’m interested in things that are not necessarily the big, well-known subjects.* And there’s a lot to see when you look down (and sideways, and behind you) in DEVA.
* Yeah, I do photograph icons, too, when things pan out. Obviously, Lake Manly, a major subject for me this past season, fits that description.
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junglialoh wrote:
Wonderful and living images - impressive and captivating
Thanks you!
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douter wrote:
One and five do it for me, Dan!
Douglas
Thanks, Douglas.
#1 is a pretty obvious subject for Death Valley. I didn’t photograph there a lot on this last visit, since I was mostly focusing on Manly and the wildflowers, but we did manage a morning out there in the dunes… and this shot have me a chance to employ my slighlty-unusual setup of a Pentax medium format zoom lens on a Mirex tilt/shift adapter, so that I could deal with the receding patterns.
#5 is an interesting (to me, anyway) story. I’ve long struggled with a popular subject that is very close to my camera position for that shot. Although I’ve sold prints of that other subject, it has never felt like I fully understood it. A couple of years ago I went back there again and started looking at other things near that subject, especially at first light, and this view of the base of the Panamint Range started to interest me, and I’ve been working slowly at finding the right ways to photograph it.
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lazlo36 wrote:
Some beautiful images !
Thank you!
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Jim Dockery wrote:
Beautiful. Like Monica said, good to look down at the details.
Thanks, Jim. Indeed, looking down opens a whole new world of potential photographs.
Great series Dan! I was going to pick a couple of favorites but failed...they all are very nice. The last one is most unusual; did you start with a quarter image?
jm10_former wrote:
Great series Dan! I was going to pick a couple of favorites but failed...they all are very nice. The last one is most unusual; did you start with a quarter image?
jacob
Thanks.
I was having some fun with that last one. You are correct that one quarter of the image is as it was photographed, while the other quarters were flipped in various ways to produce the overall effect. (Some other processing was done on the original image, too.)
dakel wrote:
Excellent work Dan. You found some striking scenes, both large and small, and captured and presented them beautifully
Thank you. After photographing there for decades, those small scenes interest me more and more!
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meadowinthesky wrote:
The lovely abstract composition of Eroded Hills was my favorite of the set, followed by Stick In The Mud.
Thanks. That's a subject ("Eroded Hills") I've ween working with for a few years now. Among other things, the other one was just an irresistible opportunity to use that title!
Magnificent shares Dan!
I especially appreciate the final abstrakt mirrored earth #7
Can you say, is this a horizontal and vertical mirror overlaid on the original
Image? Or did you use some Ai tool? I really love that style :-)
The mirroring part is pretty straight forward. You are, perhaps obvously, looking at an image that consists of four version sof the original: the original, a vertical flip, a horizontal flip, and a vertical/horizontal flip.
The underlying image itself was manipulated substantially in other ways, too.
Happydan wrote:
Magnificent shares Dan!
I especially appreciate the final abstrakt mirrored earth #7
Can you say, is this a horizontal and vertical mirror overlaid on the original
Image? Or did you use some Ai tool? I really love that style :-)
Impressive! Thanks for your response! The image looks very clean considering that it has so many layers!
I’ve only ever done such mirrored composites with two images
Do you reduce the opacity/translucency of each image on top of the original to 50%?
Happydan wrote:
Impressive! Thanks for your response! The image looks very clean considering that it has so many layers!
I’ve only ever done such mirrored composites with two images
Do you reduce the opacity/translucency of each image on top of the original to 50%?
Actually there were no opacity issues. I created a canvas in photoshop with room for four non-overlapping copies of the source image. I did the various “flips” as described above and then aligned their edges.
