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More Great Sand Dunes pictures!

fuzzybabybunny

fuzzybabybunny

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Taken at Great Sand Dunes National Park, Colorado.

Rebel XT + Sigma 30mm f/1.4, Canon 50mm f/1.8, and Sigma 10-20mm.

Items in bold are my more "Artsy" shots. Feel free to download as desktop wallpapers!

Note that the pictures with an O at the end denote the original file, and the ones with an L denote the thumbed pictures for quicker viewing.

Great Sand Dunes National Park Panorama

http://fuzzybabybunny.smugmug.com/photos/63574179-O-2.jpg (3MB)
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Footsteps up to High Dune

http://fuzzybabybunny.smugmug.com/photos/68222577-O.jpg
http://fuzzybabybunny.smugmug.com/photos/68222577-L.jpg

Desert Journey

http://fuzzybabybunny.smugmug.com/photos/68222579-O.jpg
http://fuzzybabybunny.smugmug.com/photos/68222579-L.jpg

Photographer at Sunset

http://fuzzybabybunny.smugmug.com/photos/68222580-O.jpg
http://fuzzybabybunny.smugmug.com/photos/68222580-L.jpg

Blue Skies

http://fuzzybabybunny.smugmug.com/photos/68222582-O.jpg
http://fuzzybabybunny.smugmug.com/photos/68222582-L.jpg

My "studio" at Great Sand Dunes

http://fuzzybabybunny.smugmug.com/photos/68222585-O-1.jpg
http://fuzzybabybunny.smugmug.com/photos/68222585-L-1.jpg

Coming Down the Dunes

http://fuzzybabybunny.smugmug.com/photos/68222586-O.jpg
http://fuzzybabybunny.smugmug.com/photos/68222586-L.jpg

Looking up at the Dunes B+W

http://fuzzybabybunny.smugmug.com/photos/68298734-O.jpg
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Looking up at the Dunes Landscape - ehh...

http://fuzzybabybunny.smugmug.com/photos/68298723-O.jpg
http://fuzzybabybunny.smugmug.com/photos/68298723-L.jpg

Sigma 50-500mm atop High Dune

http://fuzzybabybunny.smugmug.com/photos/68222587-O.jpg
http://fuzzybabybunny.smugmug.com/photos/68222587-L.jpg

Another picture of my "studio" atop High Dune

http://fuzzybabybunny.smugmug.com/photos/68222590-O.jpg
http://fuzzybabybunny.smugmug.com/photos/68222590-L.jpg

Blowing Sand

http://fuzzybabybunny.smugmug.com/photos/68222591-O.jpg
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Waves of Sand

http://fuzzybabybunny.smugmug.com/photos/68222584-O.jpg
http://fuzzybabybunny.smugmug.com/photos/68222584-L.jpg
 
Originally posted by: nboy22
That's cool.. Where's that at?
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Gah, people always ask me this.

Great Sand Dunes National Park, Colorado.

I guess "Great Sand Dunes" isn't really well-known 😛
 
Originally posted by: fuzzybabybunny
Originally posted by: nboy22
That's cool.. Where's that at?
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Gah, people always ask me this.

Great Sand Dunes National Park, Colorado.

I guess "Great Sand Dunes" isn't really well-known 😛
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I've only been over to the Colorado area once, I don't really get to travel over that way much because most of my relatives live in Arizona, it's not on the way there. I've only been to Denver 1 time. I live in Idaho
 
Originally posted by: QurazyQuisp
I prefer the Sleeping Bear Sand Dunes in MI, although those look nice as well.
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Oooo... gotta visit there sometime. I'm in the east, so Sleeping Bear would actually be closer to me than Great Sand Dunes. If Sleeping Bear really photogenic?
 
Originally posted by: SurgicalShark
What kind of filter are you using?
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I didn't use (or have) any filters. All was done in post-processing in PS CS2. In "My Studio atop High Dune" picture I took two pictures and blended them to create greater dynamic range (details in the sky + ground).
 
Ok another post (after looking at all of the pics).

Looks like an awesome place. Very secluded, very peaceful. I don't know what lens you used for most of those pics (assuming the Bigma?) but I really think you need something wider. Number 2 and number 3 are nice but they look like they're cropped and there needs to be a little more sky or whatever.

Having said that, I think you have a great eye for composistion and the colors and tones are awesome. You don't have to admit it, but we all know you take pride in your big lens 🙂
 
Originally posted by: Mrvile
Ok another post (after looking at all of the pics).

Looks like an awesome place. Very secluded, very peaceful. I don't know what lens you used for most of those pics (assuming the Bigma?) but I really think you need something wider. Number 2 and number 3 are nice but they look like they're cropped and there needs to be a little more sky or whatever.

Having said that, I think you have a great eye for composistion and the colors and tones are awesome. You don't have to admit it, but we all know you take pride in your big lens 🙂
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Actually all of those pics were taken with either a 30mm (mostly), 50mm, or 10-20mm. The normal lens (30mm x 1.6 = ~50mm) was by far the workhorse.

#2 was cropped a bit because I only had like half a sky (sky with a dune top sticking up one side of it) in the original pic 🙁 , and I cropped it because that half a sky ruined the overall wavey form of the picture. But you're right, I wish I woulda gotten some more sky in that picture, considering that I have a sun ray and it's coming out of nowhere...

#3 wasn't cropped. I really wanted to focus on the foreground, giving that sense of a long walk up to the dune. I felt that showing too much of the top takes away from that sense of distance 😉

Hehe, I DO take pride in my Bigma, but it was actually only there for show, lol. Basically as a prop for my "studio" shots.
 
Originally posted by: Mrvile
Ok another post (after looking at all of the pics).

Looks like an awesome place. Very secluded, very peaceful.
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If you would just turn around we'd probably see the McDonalds right next to the Exxon station.
 
Originally posted by: Kenazo
Originally posted by: Mrvile
Ok another post (after looking at all of the pics).

Looks like an awesome place. Very secluded, very peaceful.
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If you would just turn around we'd probably see the McDonalds right next to the Exxon station.
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Hehe, ohhhh no. Miles and miles of free-range pasture, dotted very intermittently by ranches far in the distance. The Great Sand Dunes area is actually quite rural. The closest town with a grocery store is perhaps 25 miles away?
 
Beautiful pics!

In the blue skies pic, did you add the clouds yourself? Or is there just massive amt's of noise reduction going on?

Nevertheless, love em!
 
Originally posted by: aphex
Beautiful pics!

In the blue skies pic, did you add the clouds yourself? Or is there just massive amt's of noise reduction going on?

Nevertheless, love em!
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Hanky!

The clouds in the Blue Skies pic are real. Yeah, a lot of noise reduction. Note that really none of my pictures are for pixel-peeping 😉

Sit back and view the picture as a whole dangit 😛
 
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