Last Evening Desert Shoot

denisegoldberg · May 15, 2016

These are beautiful Dan. I love the 2nd shot, colors and layers are wonderful.

--- Denise

EvanThomas · May 15, 2016

Number 2 is really cool, like the lighting and the sun looks amazing

Eia · May 16, 2016

#2 has that beautiful color for AZ sunsets! Nice detail in it as well. I like #3 also but the green in the cactus is just a tad saturated for me; but it is beautiful all the same!!!!

dlplumer · May 17, 2016

denisegoldberg wrote: »

These are beautiful Dan. I love the 2nd shot, colors and layers are wonderful.

--- Denise

Thank you, Denise

Cavalier · May 18, 2016

#1 with the setting sun peeking around the cactus - stunning.

roaddog52 · May 18, 2016

A great set of images. My favorite would be #1. My only nit, and I'm equally guilty of doing the same thing, is that the cactus runs out of the top of the frame. Overall, color,composition and subject is very well captured.

Phil

dlplumer · May 20, 2016

roaddog52 wrote: »

A great set of images. My favorite would be #1. My only nit, and I'm equally guilty of doing the same thing, is that the cactus runs out of the top of the frame. Overall, color,composition and subject is very well captured.

Phil

Thanks, Phil

I intentionally cut the cactus as it improved the overall composition, in my opinion. Rules are meant to be broken sometimes.

dlplumer · May 23, 2016

Cavalier wrote: »

#1 with the setting sun peeking around the cactus - stunning.

Thanks, Jo

kdog · May 24, 2016

dlplumer wrote: »

Thanks, Phil I intentionally cut the cactus as it improved the overall composition, in my opinion. Rules are meant to be broken sometimes.

Love this series, Dan. Clipping the foreground cactus was the right choice, IMO. When you have repeating objects in a scene (like these saguaros), you often want to clip the foreground object to get the closeup details which compliments the views of the full objects in the rest of the scene.

dlplumer · May 25, 2016

kdog wrote: »

Love this series, Dan. Clipping the foreground cactus was the right choice, IMO. When you have repeating objects in a scene (like these saguaros), you often want to clip the foreground object to get the closeup details which compliments the views of the full objects in the rest of the scene.

Thanks, Joel. I did not know that specifically; I just knew I liked it