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JimFox

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Yesterday Alan posted a cool photo of rock formations similar to what would be found in Bisti Badlands but he found them on the Oregon coastline. This one is from the Bentonite Hills not far from Factory Butte in Utah. It's an aerial view from the DJI Mini 2.

I was splitting time between capturing video and also photos. I think my next trip I will just do photos as there is unlimited compositions from up in the sky.

All comments are welcome,

Jim

PS. An eagle eye might catch what would look like bad stitching on a pano, but this is a single image. Then I wondered could something have screwed up with the capture? But I found another shot of the hill but where it's rotated almost 45 degrees for another composition and it also as that same cut. Maybe @Douglas Sherman can explain how it could happen?

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AlanLichty

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Makes a pretty cool abstract.

If you are looking at the color differences between the two lobes of the hills in the lower right center the two lobes have the same stratigraphy but the one on the bottom has reds from the top layer that have washed down onto the lower slopes making them look not quite the same.
 
JimFox

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AlanLichty said:
Makes a pretty cool abstract.

If you are looking at the color differences between the two lobes of the hills in the lower right center the two lobes have the same stratigraphy but the one on the bottom has reds from the top layer that have washed down onto the lower slopes making them look not quite the same.
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Maybe because Abstract isn't really my thing, I totally think of these only in landscape terms. If I switch my brain a bit, I can see where this could be an abstract, so I see what you are saying. Hopefully a Landscape Abstract works okay in the Landscape section?

That wasn't the part I was looking at. :)
 
Jim Dockery

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Yes, that is exactly the type of shot I want to work on there, esp. at sunset/rise with shadows in the folds of the hills. Nice one.
 
JimFox

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Jim Dockery said:
Yes, that is exactly the type of shot I want to work on there, esp. at sunset/rise with shadows in the folds of the hills. Nice one.
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Thanks so much Jim! It's an area you will love! I want to go back and spend several days there now. Fortunately I can get by there a couple of times a year. You will see on the road leading to this area (which is just a little past the Mars Training Area) that there are lot's of cool hills along Cow Duna Road that could also look super cool from an aerial view.

I had gone back on this particular day in the late afternoon, closer to sunset to catch the exact conditions you mentioned, but a storm was coming in. I tried to take the drone up real quick, but the wind was just too much and blowing it all over, so I immediately brought it back down after trying to hover for a few seconds. Plus I had lightning beginning, and the sunset was racing in. So I packed up the drone real quick and switched to my regular camera gear. I posted one of the sunset/lightning images from it about a week ago I think. Which reminds me I need to process more of them. There was hundreds of lightning strikes going off all over during that sunset. :)
 
JimFox

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Ben Egbert said:
Jim, this is very nice, and I don't see any stitch like lines or artifacts.
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Awesome Ben. There aren't any stitch lines because it is a single image. But a part of the image was making it look like it to me. If no one else spots it, then it means it's just me being a little too OCD.... :)
 
BlackRockArt

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JimFox said:
Yesterday Alan posted a cool photo of rock formations similar to what would be found in Bisti Badlands but he found them on the Oregon coastline. This one is from the Bentonite Hills not far from Factory Butte in Utah. It's an aerial view from the DJI Mini 2.

I was splitting time between capturing video and also photos. I think my next trip I will just do photos as there is unlimited compositions from up in the sky.

All comments are welcome,

Jim

PS. An eagle eye might catch what would look like bad stitching on a pano, but this is a single image. Then I wondered could something have screwed up with the capture? But I found another shot of the hill but where it's rotated almost 45 degrees for another composition and it also as that same cut. Maybe @Douglas Sherman can explain how it could happen?
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Jim, this is a cool shot like something dissection-cut. love it. Depends on the location & time, I think you will still take videos with the drone. hahahah.

Oliver
 
JimFox

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BlackRockArt said:
Jim, this is a cool shot like something dissection-cut. love it. Depends on the location & time, I think you will still take videos with the drone. hahahah.

Oliver
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Ha ha, thanks Oliver.... I am thinking you are correct! :)

Thanks!
 
Timmeh

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I'm definitely seeing a sequoia or redwood trunk cross-section (though it looks like it has been moved to a sandy light soil location).
 
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