Golden Sunrise in the Dunes

It's amazing how much the colors change the entire landscape within an hour, from dark to pink/purple to golden orange.

Still trying to do my processing in LR but admitting that this one had to be exported into Aperture for final touch up. Question: when I export from LR, the file size becomes tiny, whereas from Aperture, it maintains its size but converts into JPG. How can I maintain the export size quality in LR?

[Rosan]

Great shot, dof, shadows, light, composition. Lovely!

[Richard Hickey]

Incredible picture and perspective.

[Osia Strasner]

Beautiful landscape.....loving all the layering in the mountains and the sky, and the dunes in the foreground.....Can't help with LR, but the more horror stories I hear about people struggling with the organizational aspect the less I am likely to delve into it!

[Annie D]

Love the colour contrast and tones

[Kerry]

So beautiful. I love all the textures in this picture.

[Joe III]

The range of colors and textures are beautiful. The image carries your eye into the photo and invites you to keep looking. Fav!

[Rachel]

This is so beautiful. I love the colours and shadows on the dunes.

[Graham Thresher]

Really stunning

[Joan Robillard]

I would think it would be wonderful to just sit and watch. Orange and blue are opposites you should take for the technical challenge - color contrast.

[Lisa Villella]

Beautiful gradation of colors!

[Ukandie!]

Stunning shot. Wonderful colors, textures and light.

[Nicole]

This is just gorgeous!! When you export something from LR there are different tabs below each other in which you can chose your export settings. Have a look at those. There is one where you change the size of your photo (don't know what it is called in English, since I use the Dutch version), but there you can make the file smaller and adjust the resolution. Maybe you put something in there to make the file smaller? It is great to use when you want to export a small file to show on a website, but if you wnat to print or process in a different program you want to keep the origal size, and not make it smaller. Hope this helps?

[Richard Hickey]

Congratulations on making the Trending Page. Well deserved.

[Maaikel]

Awsome

[Margaret Obey]

Love the light and the shadows and layers.

[Taffy]

Great tones and colors of the various layers. I like the way you focused in on this, better than the wide angle version I took.

[Junko Y]

@taffy -- It's because I had that zoom lens and the wide angle had sand in it! I did crop a bit, but Scott suggested a much more severe crop, cutting out the bottom which he found to be "too much negative space." But I just couldn't . . . I liked those lines too much.

[Junko Y]

@nicoleterheide THANKS for the tip. I will go check it out. Takes a village to help an Aperture user migrate to being a LR user!

[Juan B.]

I like the transition from warmth to cold colors

[Islandgirl]

Love the layers of tones and colors...............very striking!

[Taffy]

@jyokota Agree! I don't think you'd want to lose the lines on the bottom at all! They add to the shot.

[Daryl O'Hare]

Looooove again. I'm just peppering favs all over this series! Not that you asked, but I'd reduce just a bit of the foreground because all the action is above that line and bush! Beautiful! You'll figure out LR soon enough. It's hard to switch I understand!