Lake Burragorang, near sydney

My guess is that a polarizer *was* used - Velvia often looks like this (super, super saturated blues and greens) when used with a polarizer.

Great Picture

Absolutely gorgeous picture! Wonderful color but not to over the top and doesn't have the typical overly polarized look.

Amazing photo :-)

Wow!

Really beautiful.....

I didn't use a polarizer.

Absolutely gorgeous!! This is one of the most stunning photos I've seen here in a long time; National Geograpic quality even. How a photo of a guy on a motorcycle can get POW and this one doesn't is beyond me.

 

The only negative thing I have to say about this photo (and it's a minor point) is that there seems to be a dark spot in the center, almost like negative fall-off.

 

 

Bravo!

You have a real good photo published here. It is very nice to look at.

The colors are great.

 

By stitching together two images, you have two problems which are visible in the image:

 

- a little bit of vignetting at the corners of each image can be seen where they are stitched togeter in the middle, and this is very unusual for a lens that it vignettes in the middle above and below

 

- details from the trees did not fit where the images are stitched together, here I can see some washed out contours where you corrected the position of branches. Better not to have trees so close when images should be put together (but in this case, there was forest all around, so you would have needed to climb on the tallest tree around to shoot the photos).

 

Well made! (perhaps next time try one of these Fuji panoramic 6x18 cameras, the scene will be worth it!)

 

Greetings, Axel

What a great shot - my only comment is the sky is purple and makes the photo look like a digi job. Just incredible otherwise. Great work.

great picture.

what made the sky purple ?

Wow, Tony, what a remarkably beautiful landscape photograph. I always think that it takes great effort on the photographer's part to find the right location for good landscape shots, and great skill to capture the shot in technical and aesthetic perfection. I remember one "critique-me" post on the photo.net forum showing a badly composed snapshot of a miserable looking waterfall, and the photographer kept making the same pathetic excuses that it was the best waterfall he could find in his hometown and it was the best he could make of the scene!

Tony, this is probably my favorite photograph on all of photo.net. I also like your work the best of any of the photographers I have reviewed, especially the Colors of Australia folder. Congratulations on great work. It is truely an inspiration!

This photo is awesome truly great. I would want to visit every visible place in this photo with a jeep and camera. I almost fell of my chair when I first saw this.

I would think that maybe the use of a polarizer might enhance the sky's blues and make the clouds more dramatic, but it would absolutely KILL the beautiful blue and greens in and reflected from the water =)

bring back this guy, dead or alive!!!!!!!!!

That's the stuff, and i don't buy this falloff nonsense, and the stitch is flawless, and it's awesome. Period.

Stunning.

 

No other words I can think of, can describe or do it justice.

Tony I have only rated 2 pics as 10's since I have been on photo.net and both of them are yours.

Great stuff!

Geeze. Now, I really feel pathetic. Good stuff.

I like this picture.

Considerations:Middle part of the picture is darker than sides.

Be careful when stiching images. Vignetting is very noticeable.

I think the darkness in the middle is because of a patch of cloud. Similar shadows can be seen at other parts of the picture also.

By the way how did you compose both the pictures to be flawlessly stitchable?

 

Diganta

Mate, I love your work. Whenever I view this folder I feel homesick. I've actually been to every location in the folder (including Reg Sprigg's Arka-bloody-roola) I wish I could say I had the same quality images of those places in my photo album - but at least my memories and your photos match.

 

Just one criticism - you're an Aussie right?? How about renaming the folder "Colour of Australia". Now that I'm living in the USA, all the little Americanisms seem to leap out and bash me in the face!

A beautiful image!

I think that a polariser would have made the colours too vivid, Velvia does a great job all by itself.

I would be interested to know which stitching software was used.

Keith.

but did Velvia turn the clouds purple?