Purity
No HDR, no DRI, but still some processing: On the original shot, the sky was only 1/4 of what you see now. This is because I wanted to capture the maximum of the dune. But for the final composition, I wanted to make a square format with half sky/half dune, so what I did is 'expand' the sky using Photoshop's transform/scale tool.
Then applied a blue gradient on the sky, a curve with a layer mask to add some variation of luminosity on the dune.
And finally, I 'cloned out' lots of little debris here and there on the sand.
Purity
No HDR, no DRI, but still some processing: On the original shot, the sky was only 1/4 of what you see now. This is because I wanted to capture the maximum of the dune. But for the final composition, I wanted to make a square format with half sky/half dune, so what I did is 'expand' the sky using Photoshop's transform/scale tool.
Then applied a blue gradient on the sky, a curve with a layer mask to add some variation of luminosity on the dune.
And finally, I 'cloned out' lots of little debris here and there on the sand.