Araralar - Basque Country

It's hard to make any comments about the sharpness or the softness of a lens (unless it's WAY OOF or a *really* bad lens) from such a small jpg. There have been many times that I've looked at the back of my D70 and thought "that is a great shot!" but at 100% on my computer, I see that the image is just a little soft-- -

 

I'm not saying that the lens is poor or that the original image lacks detail; It just seems a bit difficult to make comments regarding its sharpness. Truely, though, Asier knows how to use the glass very well, and that's what matters! :-)

Very beautiful !

I wish I could be the pow one day but my photo pictures arent as good as this.

These colors are really nice and you have a lot of skill to take this picture without flare and blow-out. It would be nice to have a model in there maybe but it's still good the simple way.

Personally, I don't think there has to be a specific subject for a landscape. There are mulitple subjects for viewing in this fine composition. The bark on the trees makes for a nice subject as well as the yellow canopy of leaves still on the trees. Who could ignore that wonderful shaft of light streaming through this scene, warming everything it caresses. I think the subject is beauty as found in nature when all the elements come together as they do here. Nice to have been there when it happened with a camera loaded and ready to go.

 

Very nice POW.

Yes, the light makes the pictiure. Without the wonderful shafts of light, I feel

this picture would be nicely composed, but very very ordinary.

Great place I will come in the summer in the Bilbao region and I am glad that there are some great places there and great photographers!!!

This would be a cool image in B&W (yes the coulours are nice but B&W would be something to try)...

I have arleady comented on this POW more than once but black and white is a good diea.

There is no question as to the beauty, serenity and mood the photograph imparts.

However, I have to agree with Mark Lucas. I feel the composition could be improved and better balance provided by croppimg from the right to a point between the left leaning tree and the next to the right. I tried it in B/w, Duotone, and Sepia, and only the Sepia came close to providing the kind of mood the original portrays.

Compositional Rules are just guidelines, but in this case, the central image does not hold your eye due to the almost central location.

The suggested cropping keeps your eyes moving in a neverending circle

from the primary subject, up to the colors,left to the light rays, and back to the mass of the main subject.

Photographic excellence will always be subjective. I love this shot. I personally like it better, cropped.

The light is exceptional

Me recuerdan los rayos de luz que inundan los templos. En este caso un templo natural. Una luz... divina. Felicidades.

 

Reminds me those light beams you can see inside a temple. A natural temple in this case. A divine light. Congratulations.

I like the face in the broken tree trunk.

The obscene crop suggested takes the picture down a notch from splendid to merely splen. My eyes went from the experience of searching through the depth of the wonderful delicate fingers of the forest to looking at an ugly amputated stump of a hand.

Fabuouls photo! No cropping necessary.

Barry F seemed put out that he could discern no reason for the boundaries of the light. I can't see why this would bother anyone. It could be any number of things such as a tightly knit canopy focussing the rays or even cloud cover doing the same. Why let something which can have a plausible explanation spoil it? Why not accept it as a great catch?

Its an amazing shot no doubt in it. as it is questioned about the main subject yes it is hard to tell in my personal opinion photogrpher aimed on the light but every single element make it exptional.

 

Regards.

Hola Asier,ya la habí¡ visto antes en Fn,pero sigue alucinᮤome esa luz que tiene,un saludo

la foret d'Iraty !!! pres de chez moi

La ordiga - que mal queda sin acento - Asier, vaya imagen, que decirte si ya parece que tiene hasta un club de fans multinacional. Es impresionante, creo que es el primer zazpi/zazpi que doy, pues soy un poco cabezota e intento buscar la perfeccion (en los demas claro, je, je, conmigo soy mas benevolo). He visto unas cuantas imagenes muy similares de arboles en el bosque y ninguna como esta: el contraluz esta logradisimo, de 10; la base en ocres y rojo es fabulosa, muy viva, la parte alta de hojas amarillentas le da una viveza fenomenal y los troncos están perfectos de resolución. Y, de verdad, aunque la verticalidad de los arboles les da mucha carga estatica, ese primer arbol con la raiz con musgo: ESTÁ DANDO UN PASO HACIA EL AUTOR. No se, creo que me estoy enamorando.... Enhorabuena, de verdad Asier, una obra maestra. Solo comentarte si eso de Araralar es a posta para llamar la atencion o es simple nervio al teclear. Ikusi arte.