{"id":1628,"date":"2017-11-25T19:34:05","date_gmt":"2017-11-26T02:34:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beautiful-landscape.com\/Reflections\/?p=1628"},"modified":"2019-05-29T19:00:17","modified_gmt":"2019-05-30T02:00:17","slug":"blue-dawn-at-white-sands-how-it-was-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beautiful-landscape.com\/Reflections\/blue-dawn-at-white-sands-how-it-was-done\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Dawn at White Sands: How it was done"},"content":{"rendered":"

This photograph was taken at dawn, at the blue hour that precedes sunrise.<\/p>\n

The sky was clear and still not tinted red by the sun. \u00a0The light on the dunes was only from the blue sky. The white sand dunes, being neutral in color, took on the color of the sky. \u00a0While the sand was white it looked blue to the camera.<\/p>\n

My eyes did not see the blue color because human eyesight neutralizes colors. \u00a0To me the dunes looked white. \u00a0To the camera they were blue because digital sensors, and film to some extent, capture color the way it is. \u00a0Unlike human sight they do not neutralize colors.<\/p>\n

During processing I altered the color slightly to create harmonious blue tones and make the scene aesthetically pleasing. \u00a0However the color was there to start with.<\/p>\n

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About Alain Briot<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

I create fine art photographs, teach workshops and offer DVD tutorials on composition, image conversion, optimization, printing and marketing. I am the author of\u00a0Mastering Landscape Photography, Mastering Photographic Composition, Creativity and Personal Style<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Marketing Fine Art Photogra<\/em>phy. All 3 books are available as printed books on Amazon.com and as eBooks on my website at this link:\u00a0http:\/\/beautiful-landscape.com\/Ebooks-Books-1-2-3.html<\/a><\/p>\n

You can find more information about my work, writings and tutorials as well as subscribe to my Free Monthly Newsletter on my website. To subscribe simply go to\u00a0http:\/\/www.beautiful-landscape.com<\/a>\u00a0and click on the Subscribe link at the top of the page. You will receive 40 free essays in eBook format immediately after subscribing.<\/p>\n

I welcome your comments on this essay as well as on my other essays. You can reach me directly by emailing me at\u00a0alain@beautiful-landscape.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Alain Briot
\nArizona
\nNovember 2017<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This photograph was taken at dawn, at the blue hour that precedes sunrise. The sky was clear and still not tinted red by the sun. \u00a0The light on the dunes was only from the blue sky. The white sand dunes, being neutral in color, took on the color of the sky. \u00a0While the sand was…Continue reading Blue Dawn at White Sands: How it was done<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16607,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100,4],"tags":[27,172,29,163,114,170,164,108,161,40,30,41,162,46,167],"class_list":["post-1628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-composition-2","category-technique","tag-alain-briot","tag-ansel-adams","tag-canon","tag-epson","tag-fuji","tag-hahnemuhle","tag-hanehmule","tag-hasselblad","tag-jeff-schewe","tag-lightroom","tag-nikon","tag-photoshop","tag-printing","tag-sony","tag-white-sands"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beautiful-landscape.com\/Reflections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beautiful-landscape.com\/Reflections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beautiful-landscape.com\/Reflections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beautiful-landscape.com\/Reflections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beautiful-landscape.com\/Reflections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1628"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/beautiful-landscape.com\/Reflections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16608,"href":"https:\/\/beautiful-landscape.com\/Reflections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1628\/revisions\/16608"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beautiful-landscape.com\/Reflections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beautiful-landscape.com\/Reflections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beautiful-landscape.com\/Reflections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beautiful-landscape.com\/Reflections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}