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Dunes, Shadows, Morning. © Copyright 2019 G Dan Mitchell - all rights reserved.
Patterns of morning light and shadows on dunes, Death Valley National Park.
I made this photograph early in the morning. A small group of us arrived while it was still dark out, anticipating a walk of perhaps a half hour to get to the area we wanted to visit. Since we wanted to be in position well before dawn, we were set to start walking before there was enough light to see our objective. Someone asked, "Which way do we go?" I looked into the murk, couldn't really make out the dunes, and guessed, "That way! We'll correct course when the light arrives."
In the dunes you find yourself in a veritable photographer's laboratory of of shapes, juxtapositions, textures, and colors. And it is not static scene either when you are there very early or very late in the day — the light changes quickly. Dusk light lends brings softer light and lens a blue cast to the scene. When the sunlight first arrives there can be stark differences between brightly lit highlights and deeper shadows with cooler tones. Before long the colors began to fade and the scene can become more subtle or even nearly monochromatic. When I made this photograph, warm and color-saturated light was coming across the top of the dunes, but the light in the shadows, still mainly from open sky, was of a cooler blue color.
G Dan Mitchell is a California photographer and visual opportunist. His book, "California's Fall Color: A Photographer's Guide to Autumn in the Sierra" is available from Heyday Books and Amazon.
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Using slide film with medium format is gratifying, especially with 6x9, when one sees the images coming off the reel as large as life. Until recently, I'd forgotten how much I love seeing those images in real color, and how my brother and I used to take rolls of slide film and go downtown in Boston years and years ago, shooting with the used cameras we bought saving up our paper route money. While Portra and Ektar are great, my heart belongs to transparency film with all it's inherent limitations.
Khristian and I got up early to get out to these dunes for a photo session. It took a long time for me to find good compositions, and I feel like I only came away with a couple ones that I really liked. This one appealed to me because the shadows balance well with the light.
There's beautiful open spaces right in the middle of the city! This is part of the The Central Experimental Farm. People also use the area for dog walks & cross country skiing in the winter. Today the sky was
extremely striking & the shadows extremely big! (Best viewed on black)
The time element of this photograph is the 200-second exposure, but what's interesting is the shadows across the water from the trees behind me. The shadows appear as they were a window into another landscape. Some say, you can't see the forest for the trees, but what if you can see the forest through the water?...
There's much one could say about this photograph. This is another which the more you look, the more you see.
Location: Lake Maumelle, Arkansas. March/2013.
Photo # KS2_3279h2.
(c) Kelly Shipp Photography.
ODC 1 ~ Shadows for 10.09.13
What you see as dirt is just pre-added texture.
Day 282 ~ 365: the 2013 edition
Looks best large...
It was early morning, and the king of the jungle was surveying his domain from the camouflage of the shadows.... but he stepped into the light for a moment, and I managed to get a couple shots before he slipped back into the darkness.
National Zoo, Washington DC
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One of most recent images of Shadow, he is almost 1 year old now and his character is really coming through! if you look closely at the reflections in his eyes you will see the outline of me taking this shot!
After traipsing across the dunes, we were treated to a self-portrait shadow silhouette of our photography quartet at Oceano Dunes, California.
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