From several years ago during the 100 year bloom.. This is an optical extraction to emphasize the scope of the flower coverage.
Canon 1d2, EF100-400mm @ 310mm, ISO 200, 1/160 @ F10
Death Valley Ablaze
From several years ago during the 100 year bloom.. This is an optical extraction to emphasize the scope of the flower coverage.
Canon 1d2, EF100-400mm @ 310mm, ISO 200, 1/160 @ F10
That's a really electric looking yellow. I am not saying reduce the saturation - I like it just fine. Use of the diagonal hills, especially the way they reverse makes for interesting patterns. What do you mean by "optical extraction".
Inclusion of a small slice of the hazy background adds additional depth to the image.
Robert it's a term coined by George Lepp which basically means using a longer lens to pluck interesting compositions out of the landscape as a whole...Originally Posted by Robert Amoruso
wow. I was just there and it did not look at all like this. What part of the park was tihs?
Not suprising wildflower blooms this good are quite rare.. As far as I can recall this was near Ashford Mill south of Badwater.
This would lose all impact without that section of blue, background hill you included. Perfectly composed, beautiful image!
A lovely image with a lot of lines.....hard to go wrong with that! That must have been really cool to see Death Valley during such a rare bloom. I've never been there, but would like to go someday. I love optical extraction....around here we have a lot of ridge lines and one of my favorite things to do is to hike up one of these ridges and just sit up there with my 100-400 and pick out interesting images from the area below. A lot of fun! Anyway, nice image - can't see anything that I would change.
I love the composition and coloring as well. I agree that optical extractions are a lot of fun, I like shooting with my 100-400 using the same technique. I call them flatscapes.
Ok. :confused: A fancy sounding term for something I started doing when I got my 500mm. Using longer lenses for landscapes opened up a whole new dimension coming from wide-angles and short zooms.:cool:
Thanks Robert.:)
Yes I've always been more comfortable with landscapes using my longer lenses..... Must be a telephoto kinda guy :)
This is an unusual and very appealing image. I love the waves of yellow and blue.
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