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Aperture Series @ 19mm: Snake Tracks on Rippled Dunes, Death Valley
This series is about the overall visual impact first, sharpness second. It also discusses and shows field curvature particularly well.
Snake Tracks on Rippled Dunes, Death Valley
Adobe Camera Raw 10.1.0.864: View ACR settings. Aggressive settings during raw conversion, for desired chrome-like effect. Camera Profile=Adobe Standard. Diffraction mitigating sharpening for f/9 and f/11.
Snake tracks are found crisscrossing the dunes in numerous places, seen here as small tracks in several places, with pack rat (?) tracks emanating from the bushes. One night on a full moon I’d like to explore the dunes at night to see what I can see—but I’ll stay away from bushes! My supposition is that snakes (Panamint Rattlesnake?) hunt pack rates and mice at night and whatever else shows up. But it might be something more mundane, like the Nevada Shovel-Nosed snake.
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Diglloyd DAP is DSLR-oriented, but also contains workflow and other topics. Much of the focus is on Canon and Nikon but also Pentax and Pentax medium format.
Special emphasis is placed on lens evaluation, focusing on Canon and Nikon and Sigma lenses, but with a few others like Rokinon/Samyang.
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