I second Ansel!!
I second Ansel!!
Why have a hyper-color issue? Following this thread I found a photographer who does that, but with a consistent quality and style that I can learn to appreciate.
This is the second time the past month I had to change _what_ I appreciate to include new people who I have come to appreciate. It's a weird feeling.
Nothing wrong with appreciating new things--I do it all the time. What I am looking for is to learn of photographers shooting in the desert who's work sort of captures the sense of place of Death Valley and other deserts. Putting aside all other issues, when I look at most Death Valley photographs I don't get that sense of place. Thus my effort here to widen the search.
--Darin
Barnbaum. Love him or hate him, he's made some amazing images in DV.
Just curious, while just a limited selection, how do my images I posted measure up in achieving a "sense of place"? Feel free to be cruel! Perhaps on a scale of 1 to 10, 10 being strongly giving a sense of place...if you do not wish to go into any detail.
And of course, feel free to decline...but it would also help define for us as what you might think is a representation of a sense of place
Vaughn
Hyper-color generally means someone never photographed a place at all. They invented a
fictitious scene, typically with Fauxtoshop. Other than strong dawn or sunset light, Death
Valley is a remarkably difficult place to find a color film for. Many of those rare mineral colors are extremely difficult to reproduce. I know of hidden places in Death Valley where
the hues of the rocks are almost unbelievable, but which seem to evade every color film
out there. Doesn't mean you won't bag some really wonderful color shots in the place,
of course. But there is a reason why most of the classic work has been done in b&w.
I'm with you with what I prefer. But sky blue, rock red can be enhanced to give a rich color scene without being fictitious.
I'd do it in black and white. Dry and dusty with subtle slowly-decaying human artifacts (remains if possible but that isn't the point - the point is to tell the story of someone who tried to make it, or someone who lived a life)...
I used to worry how to get in and out without dying... my cars weren't that reliable when I was younger.
I think it would be most appropriate to work the desert when it is at the extreme dry and hot, and with mirages. But no water, that just doesn't feel right to me (no water on the ground, of course I'd bring many gallons of drinking water).
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