the "Cinque Torri"

thanks for the critique

Ottimo panorama! Un po' strana e inquietante la colorazione delle nubi. Ciao

the grad filter loses marks from me...nothing personal.

Io ne ho contate quattro..he..he.. Ottima foto di montagna innevata!!!

Splendide dolomiti!!

Also for me, the graduated filter used for top was not chosen well. Would be a better scene without it...

 

Jiri

Hi Guido:

 

The majesty of the Cinque Torri is well captured here. The disadvantage of the graduated tobacco filter is that it in order to create realistic sunset tones in the clouds, you would leave Cinque Torri looking unnaturally reddish brown. I had this dilemma when photographing sailboats. Art directors and clients clamored for dramatic skies, but Coquin filters left white dacron sails looking like old canvas. Now we have PS.

 

To complete the sunset effect, I opened an additional layer set to the Overlay blending, sampled the tobacco clouds, selected a soft brush set to about 30 percent opacity and painted away. See what you think. --jim

 

Yes Jim,you have done a nice correction,I also took one shot without the filter...I should've uploaded that one,maybe...

with Brendan!

Thanks to you on a good image and to Jim on a very useful comment and PS lesson. I do specially like the very well exposed snow

Since a lot of time,this is a first photo that I have seen on which the colour of the snow is pure white.

I love it.This is great capture.Congratulations.

 

monumental nature, a bit romantic capture, big nature small we. mike

I agree with the views that the grad-filter here is not appropriate... the red clouds seem to push down on the "torri" and detract attention from the majestic rock face. The composition, though, is very good and the texture in the foreground snow nicely complements that of the sheer rock faces.

 

Ciao,