Theme Western: Play on Shadow and Light

[Dave Mills]

Shot this at Death Valley a few years back. Applied a modified Topaz simplify.
D200,24-120 lense,F22,1/250,-1/3 comp,200 ISO, tripod mtd

[denise ippolito]

Dave, Really nice looking image! I like the colors and the light. Great theme image too!!

[Dave Phillips]

nice and clean Dave....my fav part is that the shadows color coordinate with the sky

[Jackie Schuknecht]

Love the lines Dave, and the oranges and blues together. Well composed, my eye goes all over the frame:)

[Ákos Lumnitzer]

Great comp and shadows. Sets an awesome mood mate! :)

Now, all you need is Clint turn up on his stallion and say: "Go ahead! Take my hay!" then if anyone tried the horse would shoot them. :D

[Dave Mills]

Thanks Akos, Everytime I'm out west I look for Clint but the guy is always making a movie....

[WIlliam Maroldo]

Very nice example of why landscapes don't have to be horizontal. Great composition. Only thing I personally might try is getting a bit more detail in the foreground. Have you tried using the filter and then a history brush with the fade last command? You could use the history brush on the foreground, for example, and then fade last command (percentage slider) and let that area not be as effected as the further back. Just a thought. The image is just fine as it is. Good work. regards~Bill

[Dave Mills]

Bill,Good thought about the history brush but that was pretty close to all the foreground detail I had in the original image.

[Cheryl Slechta]

Dave, gorgeous colors and shadows. I think it would also look neat cropping the top off above the 2 bushes so
you'd end up with a very simple image. I like it now though - it looks like a Georgia O'Keefe painting.:D

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Cheryl