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Images => Nature, Flora, Fauna & Landscapes => Topic started by: David Paterson on October 14, 2015, 15:35:21
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The little pass through our local hills, earlier today.
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grand vision
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Thank you, Fons, I value your comments highly.
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a very fine picture
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I really like the composition and the contrast between lights and darks. Great atmosphere.
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Reminds me that is great time to visit Wine makers on weekends. The mist that is rising over the vineyards and little rivers is always a great vista.
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Thank you, Thomas, Peter and Frank.
Frank - even here, people make wine (including my wife) but grapes have to be grown indoors; not enough hot sunshine to ripen the fruit and create the sugars.
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Actually that's just what I need for a current poster project; Leaves, greens, sun rays and mist...
Ahhhhh I like it David!
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Gorgeous scene you've caught here. My local hills are nowhere near as serene as this. Thanks for sharing.
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Beautiful oil painting, Dave. I really like how you have captured the light here.
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I'll be a bit of the contrarian here ... while I like it ... I want to see more. Not in the sense of FOV, but rather in intensity and visual impact. I know your stuff David ... I expected a bit more with all these elements spread out before you and your camera.
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Thank you all - Erik, Charlie, Mike and Gary - for your comments; much appreciated.
Gary - in my own defence - this was a very difficult file to process. The scene as originally viewed and captured had almost no colour and no contrast due to the mist, so the result you see is heavily PP-ed - much, much more than is normal for me. So this image is partly a work of deduction or even imagination, and not everyone will like it. Also, I began to have similar thoughts and after posting did quite a bit more with the image. Rather than post a new version of the same image, I am posting another from the same series, in which a subtle shift in the mist allowed more natural colour and contrast to come through, so I had a lot more to work with from the start. Let me know!
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Beautiful David. It could have been in the Alps ;) Love the second image more, very atmospheric !
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Heavily PP'd or not, I prefer the first version. For me, the fore- and right middle ground make the image because of the warm, subtle lighting. I don't see this in the second image.
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Dave, very nice image with layers of interest.
However, i'm with Gary somehow, i'm missing some strong foreground interest. I understand your comment on the difficulty of the raw file, but perhaps more emphasis the foreground bush (middle bottom on the ledge) would solve that.
Of course, i am certain i couldn't have pulled off even a half decent image given the situation, so well done!
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John, Mike and Hans - thanks for some interesting comments, which I do take on board.
I prefer the second image because I was able to put some contrast and drama into it without the colours going haywire. The bush in the foreground of both versions is important because it prevents your eye from sliding out of the bottom of frame, but to me the image is all about the long tree-covered ridge in silhouette, and (less important) the view of more distant hills through the small window in the mist / clouds. But we all interpret scenes and images of scenes differently, which is a blessing because it would be so boring if we all saw things the same way.
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The straight lines and the corner of light are much more inviting in the second picture. Definitely better for me.
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Not being there, it is easy to be critical not knowing how much of a sow's ear you had as a starting point. Thank you for more definition regarding the image. I prefer the second to the first. The overall greater contrast of the second wins it for me ... but I do appreciate the clarity and inclusion of the clear foreground of the first.
I think you have go back and shoot this again and again ... and take me with you. ;D
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Thank you, Bruno.
Gary - you are very welcome! Why not join in our Scottish event next May and I will personally conduct you to the location. After all, California is only a hop and a skip away from here. ;D
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Thank you, Bruno.
Gary - you are very welcome! Why not join in our Scottish event next May and I will personally conduct you to the location. After all, California is only a hop and a skip away from here. ;D
Granted, it is not very far, but it is uphill. I've never been to Scotland. My youngest daughter did a study abroad in Stirling and loved it there.
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Granted, it is not very far, but it is uphill. I've never been to Scotland. My youngest daughter did a study abroad in Stirling and loved it there.
OMG, we practically have a family connection - Stirling is our nearest "proper" town - if your daughter was there within the past 12 years, we probably shopped in the same supermarkets and even passed each other in the street. That almost certainly makes you some kind of distant cousin, and as a member of the family I would say you are obliged to visit Scotland. Soonest. :) :) :)
I'm glad to say I have been to California - loved it - San Francisco, Yosemite, Kings Canyon, Sequoia, Bakersfield, the Mohave - loved it all.
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Two years ago and she goes back every year. I've been to the UK but unfortunately not Scotland. I must agree that there is impossible to think that we cannot be related.
PS- Kings Canyon is one of the most amazing places on Earth.