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One great thing about a zoom lens like the 70-200mm used here for landscape photography is it allows this nice effect called “compression”. The technique brings in the two layers of sand dunes from beyond and make them look closer, more dramatic. I kept a little bit of light on the back sand dune to give a clue that I didn't just Photoshop in a darker background. Deadvlei, Namibia
You don't know how difficult it was to get this photo! It seems pretty easy because there is an entire mile of railing on the Bund side that looks across to the Pudong side of Shanghai. But, on this evening (the evening of the photowalk), people were stacked 6 deep along the railing. And not just any people. Chinese people. Their stacking density is 4x normal cultural stacking density. The means that getting up to the front with a giant tripod was a bit like a salmon trying to swim up a waterfall. And none of them knew any English, so I had great trouble explaining I was only going to be there 30 seconds and they can get back to their normal uncomfortable situation. Copyright Trey Ratcliff www.StuckInCustoms.com
