Do you see what I see?

"Your perspective will change the way you see this photo. Tell me? Do you see what I see? This is why I love photography so much, we all have the ability to express our perspective by spinning a few dials on our camera's"

This stunning photo of camel thorn trees was made during the Namibian dawn when the warm light of the morning sun was illuminating a huge red sand dune dotted with white grasses while the white floor of the clay pan was still in shade. The foregroud looks blue because the white clay reflected the color of the sky above.

Because of the extreme contrast between the shady foreground and the sunlit background & after gathering all the information about this shot, I decided it was worth sharing with all my other photo enthusiastic friend's. Here is the low down on how this piece was created. The photographer used a two-stop graduated filter to reduce the contrast. The perfect moment came just as the sun reached the bottom of the sand dune and before it washed the desert floor.

This photographer's (Fran) chose a long telephoto lens and stopped it all the way down to compress the perspective. The image was captured using a Nikon D3X camera mounted to a Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8 lens exposing ISO 100 for 1/10 of a second at 200mm f/22.

I really believed this was a painting at first glance.

Thanks for reading, more to follow soon!! ~Chaos