
Originally Posted by
Diane Miller
I loved your earlier posts from here, and this one too! I love the subtle sepia tone. But the shadow isn't quite right somehow. I'd crop a little from the bottom as all the footprints draw attention from the lovely shape of the dunes. Maybe you had walked further forward in the earlier posts?
I don't see the posterization, but if you do the gradient darkening in LR/ACR instead of PS (even if you go in with 16 bits) I'll bet it isn't there. There are just so many tonal values in the sky and darkening them will at some point posterize them, but you'll have more overhead in the raw file. You might try a little more subtle with it -- it feels a bit heavy.