Chewy Striding - Linc




I was able to anticipate this background and got Chewy when he moved into position. Even though the color version of this image was shot with Astia, it is very saturated with a deep blue sky.

Camera:   Contax G2
Lens:   Carl Zeiss Planar 45mm f/2
Film:   Astia@100
Exposure:   Not recorded, but + 1 2/3 comp.
Flash:  
Support:  
Filter:   None
Adjustment:   Normal color workup and conversion into grayscale via channel mixer. Since the sky was very saturated blue, I could get a good contrast with the dunes by tweaking the mixer sliders to my liking.
Posted:   06-Jan-2004

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Comments

Without the dog...

this is quite bertolluci..... or alternatively a thesiger without the Bedouin boy.... not sure the dos adds anything to a generally nice image.... would be interested in seeing the same thing shot with just the dogs footprints and possibly less of the vegetation in the foreground...

mike wing     06-Jan-2004 at 22:35

Linc,

This is wonderful. Only nitpick could be that the stuff at the bottom is a bit distracting from the cleanliness of the rest of the image.

Wilfred van der Vegte     07-Jan-2004 at 00:33

Proud silhouette

Nicely timed and pre-focused. Dog shots are always trickier than people assume and these are good. Again the greyscale work is paying off big-time. Mike's comment made me wonder what he thinks would have happened to the dog if the pic was seen without him - alien abduction?

Charez Golvala     07-Jan-2004 at 01:57

Mars Attacks?

I guess now that we're up and hunting for our neighbourhood aliens on Mars they may be whizzing around New Mexico picking up some of earths more intelligent lifeforms... seriously - just liked the idea of the humour/ mystery of the disapearing footprints...

mike wing     07-Jan-2004 at 02:29

Placement. . .

Lincoln capturing the prance of the beast gives this image extra zip. I too notice that you are 'showing' of your high aptitude in the area of exposure control, too. A more surreal in my point of view to match the space Aliens would be to clip away the foreground just up to the shadow of the beast. Good camera work, Lincoln!

Jerome Belthrop     07-Jan-2004 at 04:43

Jerome, IMO, makes a good

point about the foreground although I am not sure that I would clip as much as he suggests.

George Shadoan     07-Jan-2004 at 06:04

Thanks for the welcome back, all,

Mike, I have a WS shot coming up that I know you will like. :-) Funny, with the famous Roswell New Mexico alien "event" everyone thinks of the extra-terrestrial themes. Wilfred, and others on the cropping topic. This image does not display as well on screen as it does in a print. It captures a very distinct feature of the White Sands that is often hard to get. That is: the rolling dunes with their textures and the "interdune flats" that often look like soft shale in lines like windblown farmers furrows. The foreground seems blown out, but it really looks that way. At a distance the lines of the foreground "furrows" add to the dimension and drama of the image, and move the emphasis from lower left to upper right like a pointing arrowhead, IMNSHO. I find that cropping out the bottom leaves the image too stark and removes a lot of the sense of place. The smooth line of the dune is more smooth when contrasted with the craggy foreground. There are many sand pattern shots to be seen, this is decidedly from the White Sands National Monument in New Mexico. I think (if you remember my cattle drive series) that I am much more aware, now, of a sense of place. Linc

Linc     07-Jan-2004 at 07:54

Linc

you may defend your shots anyway you want (being an artist), but I don't see much in this shot. So I will say no more.

Knut Skjærven     07-Jan-2004 at 12:10

great image

Fun. Please post the original color version too.

Gregg Humphrey     08-Jan-2004 at 09:14

great great photo!

Ibbi     15-Jul-2009 at 15:49