Ghost Forest
Dan Henderson

Ghost Forest

Comments appreciated.
Location
Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, Michigan
Equipment Used
Hasselblad 501 CM, 50 mm lens
Exposure
f/11@1/30th
Film & Developer
FP4 in DiXactol
Paper & Developer
MGWT in Ilford WT, light selenium tone
Lens Filter
#29
Very high impact image. Stark, strong, powerful. Great composition with the sand 'waves' leading into the frame. Great foreground subject matter, and a 'what the ... is that?' in the background. Interesting, well thought out photograph. Very impressive.
- Thomas
 
this is great. I love the perspective that you used with the 50mm and the contrast you selected.

mike a
 
Dan
What a nice dunes image. It looks like it should be from the desert someplace. Of all the dunes pictures I have taken I would love to have one like this.
Best,
Jim
 
Good image. Looks like the sky and far sand has been burned in a bit too heavy. I find that the darker sand and dark sky 'flattens" the image...that is, it brings the background closer making the image more two-dimensional. The foreground is much brighter than the background...adding to this. There is no "atmospheric distance" ... not that it is always necessary, but I think that it would have helped this image to have the ghost trees looming in the distance, rather than thrust forward visually.

I also think the square format of the image would be enhanced by balancing out the tonality of the sky, instead of having the right side lighter.

Vaughn
 
That's really nice. Very unique image of the dunes in Mich. Looks like you could find a skull out there.
 

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Sat, 03 November 2007 8:53 PM
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