Death Valley Dunes, Sinuous sculptures of sand 6/6 by Hedepo
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No AI - This artwork was created entirely by hand or with traditional digital tools.
Description
Death Valley Dunes, Sinuous sculptures of sand 6/6
In May / June 2007 we made a trip through California with a RV-Motor-home.
One of the many highlights was Death Valley. Death Valley is an unique, but very hot place in the US.
Early in the morning we made a hike for a couple of hours exploring the sand dunes (close to Stovepipe Wells), including climbing the tops of a few of them. Light was that morning a little bit strange, with some haze in the direction towards the mountains.
I made a few photo’s and 6 of them I have turned into a duo-tone in the following way.
After adjusting the full color in the normal way with Photo-Shop, I converted the photo into a black & white by using the mode: Greyscale.
If required , I did some tuning in this phase.
The B&W image is converted with Photo-Shop into a “Duo-tone” with the following settings.
Ink 1, Black
Ink 2, Pantone 453C
If required some fine tuning can be made in this phase as well.
As final touch, a simple frame for the series of photo’s.
By means of this selection / conversion in photo-shop, the amount of white is strongly reduced and the photo turned into a “warmer toned” photo, at least in my opinion and fit for purpose aiming at a more abstracted view on this warm place early in the morning!!
Hope you like it,
Your comments are highly appreciated,
Have a very nice weekend
Henk

Comments (14)
A beautiful work!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Fantastic and impressive capture . 5 STARS !!! . Thanks for the valuable information . , Ana
Wow Henk this series is amazing, shame on me that I only see it now! Perfect work!
Such pure curves... there is such a peaceful feeling in this picture ! Excellentissime series, Henk !
beautiful and striking
To bad is the last one in the series! These are wonderful works! Bravo!!!
perfect photo!
Beautiful and looks terrific in B&W!
Fantastic work...
Excellent work!
Remarkable place... Beautiful. Aloha
beautiful
Wonderful image - it was certainly worth the effort! Congrats on having this chosen for LWITG! :)
Another wonderful Death Valley Picture!!! I can't wait to go again!!! Congrats on LWTG!!!!