Alabama Hills

This image was taken during a sunrise shoot at the Alabama Hills, in California, near Lone Pine. The Alabama Hills are famous for being the location where many famous old time western movies were made from the 1920's to recently made movies like Star Trek and Ironman. The hills are located directly in front of the Sierra Nevada mountain range, and contrast the sharp jagged shapes in the Sierra range with rounded boulder shapes. In this image I de-saturated the grey rocks in the background so that the foreground yellowish rocks would stand out. In fact the whole foreground is in contrast to the background. If the background colour was not de-saturated then it would compete with the nice colourful stones in front. Incidentally, the foreground has also been de-saturated somewhat as well. I see myself doing more of this in my photographs, rather than the opposite, that of increasing the saturation of colours.