No Need to Rent Time in Nature (Great Sand Dunes National Park & Preserve)

            A wide angle view looking to the north from the roadside pull off around the national park entrance sign. My thinking in composing this image was to have a balanced setting, more or less, with the sweeping view across the desert grassland and then the sand dunes, mountains and blue skies above. In someways, the balance was between the more earth tones at the bottom part of the image and the bluer ones with the mountains and skies in the upper portion. I later worked with control points in DxO PhotoLab 3 and then made some adjustments to bring out the contrast, saturation and brightness I wanted for the final image.
   

Taken in: United States / Colorado / Liberty (show map)

Taken on: June 29, 2020

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Azimuth 358

Blue Skies

Cleveland Peak

Colorado Great Sand Dunes & Black Canyon of the Gunnison

Crestone Group

Day 1

Desert Grassland

Desert Landscape

Dunes

DxO PhotoLab 3 Edited

Eastern Edge of the San Luis Valley

Grassland

Great Sand Dunes Area

Great Sand Dunes National Park

Great Sand Dunes National Park & Preserve

Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve

Landscape

Landscape - Scenery

Looking North

Mount Herard

Mountain Peak

Mountains

Mountains in Distance

Mountains off in Distance

Nature

Nikon D850

No People

Northern Sangre de Cristo Range

Outside

Partly Cloudy

Portfolio

Project365

Rocky Mountains

Sand

Sand Dunes

Sangre de Cristo Range

Scenics - Nature

SnapBridge

Southern Rocky Mountains

Sunny

Tallest Sand Dunes in North America

Travel

Colorado

United States

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Camera: Nikon D850, f/6.3, 1/640 sec, 40mm, ISO 100 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Nikon D850
Lens:	24.0-120.0 mm f/4.0
Aperture:	f/6.3
Exposure Time:	0.002 sec (1/640)
Focal Length:	40mm
ISO:	100
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	No Flash
Exposure Program:	Aperture-priority AE
Exposure Mode:	Auto
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Auto
Scene Capture Type:	Landscape
Color Space:	sRGB
Software:	NIKON D850 Ver.1.11
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