[Leica] Dunes Redux

[Howard Ritter]

For my tastes, the original without hesitation. The foreground ripples add a lot of textural visual interest and the inky blackness of the shadows is more important than the detail that can be teased out with post-processing.

YMMV. De gustibus and all that.

—howard


> On Nov 13, 2014, at 11:31 AM, Ken Carney <kcarney1 at cox.net> wrote:
> 
> Definitely the revised one for me.  Very nice.
> 
> Ken
> 
> On 11/12/2014 9:53 PM, Robert Adler wrote:
>> Some suggestions were made to the first image of the Oceano Dunes that
>> included:
>> 1.  Lighten the dune shadows to show some detail.
>> 2.  Crop out some of the foreground.
>> 
>> So I did this and the result is here:
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/rgacpa_HI/20141103-L1002368+as+Smart+Object.jpg.html
>> 
>> Here is the original image before the suggestions.
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/rgacpa_HI/20141103-L1002368-Edit.jpg.html
>> 
>> Please look at each large. Though I know which one I prefer (limited to
>> only these two to pick from) I'd really appreciate hearing your opinions.
>> Thanks!
>> Bob
>> 
> 
> 
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