Dead Vlei -Namibia

[Loukie Viljoen]

These trees are many years old, just no water to sustain them, a popular photo destination. Enjoy.

File size: 189KB
IImage counter: 7913
Camera Model: Canon EOS-1D Mark II
Date/Time: 2005:04:21 08:59:00
Shutter speed: 1/100 sec
Aperture: 11
Exposure mode: Av
Exposure compensation: -2/3
Flash: Off
Metering mode: Partial
Drive mode: Single frame shooting
ISO: 125
Lens: 100 to 400mm
Focal length: 100mm
AF mode: One-shot AF
Image size: 1728 x 1152
Image quality: Fine
White balance: Cloudy
Color matrix 1: sRGB natural-looking hue and chroma
Color space: AdobeRGB

[Harold Davis]

very interesting composition with some awesome colors!! the one thing that bothers me is that the horizon line needs some CW rotation. other than that, pretty awesome!

[Roman Kurywczak]

Hi Loukie,
The lighting looks good and I agree with Harold on the rotation. The progression of sizes if the trees is very interesting but i feel a bit more seperation between the trees to get rid of some of the mergers may have helped compositionally.

[Paul Marcellini]

I was thinking the same thing as Roman. A little more separation and call it great. A very interesting place. I always love seeing shots of it.

[Robert Amoruso]

I agree on a bit more separation but as presented a very graphic image.

Rotation does not look needed to me as the trees appear upright. I am guessing that the dune is receding in distance as it moves left to right, hence the optical illusion that a horizon is sloped.