local and hungary 2009 and orwell 071

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regards.miken

I liked the composition very much with its "Z", inviting the eyes...

The photo looks a bit underexposed. This might well be intentional, I do not know.

The contrast is low, in part, because of the underexposure.

Anyway, I have played with levels and curves. I have increased the saturation of the midtones. Some local contrast boost, resizing and sharpening were the final operations.

In the end, your original probably lost some of its nice mood. The revised look is more conventional; only you can decide if it is better or worse than what you had in mind...

Regards,

Beautiful structure and nice point of view. FS

It is called in Hungarian; "The Halasz Bastya" English; "The Fishermen's Bastion". The problem is, the basic image is udder exposed as a typical problem with camera automatization and not knowing, winter and snowy landscapes you have to over expos +2 stops to get the snow right. ( use compensation dial in A priority mode. In M mode, more easy, jut dial up 2, 3 stops the light-meter.)  If it is a sunny snowy scape, then even +3 stop is preferable. To-mach white, failing the camera light-meter, being it a 400 or a 10,000.00 dollar camera.  Ones you under exposed such an image, you not going to pull out a decent contrasty image. If you don't know that, all of your aperture priority images in a snowy landscape going to be heavily under exposed. And all of you snow going to looks like, a mud slide grey.

Cheers.