Eastern Oregon Desert

[chuckmoser]

I took these driving around the desert on Sunday. I'm trying to convey the harsh but beautiful solitude of the Oregon Desert. The structure is a long-dead windmill.
Would appreciate any crits or comments.

Thanks, Chuck

[jcharris]

Hello Chuck

Both are beautiful shots , the sky only looks a bit too dark for me on my monitor.
Good work .

Regards
james

[gahspidy]

Chuck, I like them both. They have much dynamic qualities. I think they would work great in a collection of shots from your Oregon Desert and hills images. There is much vignetting going on around these images. Is this from polarizer and lens combination ( sometime wide angle lens and poarizer may get some vignetting) or is this from editing in ps?

[chuckmoser]

Thanks, Gary. The vignetting is a Photoshop thing that I do sometimes when I import the RAW file. The gradation at the top is from a Graduated Neutral Density filter. I was also using a Polarizing filter. Those two filters plus a little vignetting makes a little dark (2 stops on the polarizer, and another 2 at the full graduation of the NDF), especially in the sky of some shots... damn near black. I just use it to hopefully add a little more depth and contrast.

-Chuck

-Chuck

[jar_e]

Nice shots Chuck. Love the second one, the drastic contrast of the red on the blue sky, great pic. Maybe not so centered, but it works!

Nice shooting,

Jared

[CB Photo]

Great shots. I would also like the first shot close up and tilted to give the structure a wierd twist.