landscapes Miraggi

Right before dawn in the Comacchio Valleys, the thin line of ground on

the horizon looked like a mirage...

Critiques and comments are welcome!

Davide

Very interesting. It looks as though the color tones could be banding or stepped, which may mean you pushed the processing a bit much.

Thanks for your comment, Laurent.

Now, this makes me think. You say that I could have pushed processing a bit much... But I pretty much have a standardized post processing flow, which is quite light. Also, the "bands" are not evident in the full resolution/full size file, not even at 100% visualization. Yes, there are some very thin lines, but they are micro-rippling on the water... I don't see the "bands" there. Also, I posted this same image on another website which doesn't apply any compression or other processing to the file, and there's no banding there either, not that I or other people on that site noticed... Could that "banding" come from web compression?

Thank you again!

Davide

Una foto di un minimalismo disarmante, dove la simmetria e' rotta solo dalla terra ferma la in fondo.

Un atmosfera calda ma ovattata. viene voglia di tirare un sasso .... per vedere l'effetto che fa!.

 

Davide, it's probable that JPG compression and/or a poor resizing algorithm is doing the banding, especially if you're not seeing it other places or in your original. It's a beautiful image, but the banding does catch my attention.

Thank you, Laurent, for the further info. I understand what you mean. It's a pity, that banding is actually disturbing.

Grazie anche a te, Marco. :)

Thanks to everybody who spent some of his/her time on this photo.

Ciao,

Davide