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Shooting pictures with the midday light is no big fun. Nor is hiking

in the caldera of an extinct volcano with no shadow in sight. This

picture reminds me of heat... does it convey the same feeling to you?

 

Comments and suggestions are much welcome.

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Salvatore, This, coupled with your narrative, succeeds in convincing me that this is a hot location. I'd like to see the original you cropped this from. Looks like a poor scan (see annoying texture throughout) though I'll trust the original print\neg. is without blemish. Excuse me while I go get a large glass of water with some ice:) Best, LM.

 

P.S. Just discovered my monitor settings were off. Looks ok now. LM.

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good use of flat, midday light to create an image that says something. the small shadow directly beneath the hiker gives away the direct overhead sun and adds to the "hot" mood.

 

nicely done,

 

-Anish

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When I came across your photo I said to myself "that looks like the Tongariro crossing in New zealand" and sure enough it was. I was able to do this amazing tramp a few years ago. However it was rather cold when I did it. So the hotness effect didn't grab me. Maybe if you included the sun in the picture some how it would help convey your message better. Great photo, it takes me back.
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As ever, this is a nicely and carefully composed image. The colors and the tones and the scale of the person relative to the landscape work very well. I like how the heavier gravel in the center foreground leads into the hiker. I have to say that I don't get that strong an impression of heat from the shot. I get the very dry landscape and the high sun, but maybe the figure is too far away, and maybe his/her stride is too aggressive for me to be able to empathize. I think that dry heat is very difficult to show - maybe a wider angle shot with more emphasis on the expanse of the bottom of the crater and the sun high in the sky, but then you'd lose the detail on the figure, or maybe more emphasis on the harsh sunlight in the hiker? It's a good, enjoyable shot, Salvatore, but I'm not sure it gets me to "heat" without the title, and even then I have to use a fair bit of imagination. Best, Jeremy.
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Slavatore, Before reading the title of this photo or any of the comments, the first thing that popped in my mind was "This is a much hotter location than we usually see from Salvatore". So...I think you were successful in conveying the heat! The only thing that would have pushed this further is a dessicated skelton in the foreground.
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Hi salvatore,

this image surely conveys the sense of heat. The light is perfect to flat out the scene and the human running figure adds interest to the image - what is he/she doing with this sun? why to run in a desolated place? if this is not the marathon of the sands i couldn't explain it.

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Dr. Mele, I need to take you up to Mt. St. Helens, where you could enjoy some altitude, plus a little heat and snow at the same time.

 

I like the photo--it's well composed, rule of thirds, decent colors, and has an interesting landscape. It doesn't actually scream "hot" to me however: there are lots of places like this in central and eastern Oregon (state I live in), where it could easily be 60 degrees F. There's part of me that wishes you would have tried a more adventurous crop, putting the hiker further left (to emphasize distance to go) or way to the right (as if he's escaping the landscape). Just a few ideas that were running through my head.

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Here some answers and remarks to your observations...

Len The original is basically much of the same hill to the left till getting the hiker dead in the centre, and much of the same ocre sand to the bottom... sorry for the graphic description but I've not it with me...

Anish I indeed hoped that the small shadow would have played the game.

Andrew Including the sun with a 20mm was not a good idea. I had tried it in the past and got mostly horrible flares. I decided to go the indirect way...and, after all, it was not so sizzling hot...maybe I'm playing a bit of games with the arid landscape and the short shadow?

Jeremy I am glad you remarked her stride. Indeed, it was quite aggressive and fast... I was basically running alonside to try to frame her back enough in the shot to leave the canonical space in front of something/someone moving in a shot... eventually, she was dead centre in the original and I had to cure it with this crop. As for the heat... nothing compared to Morocco

Laurie I think I've bean sweating much more horribly on the snow than there... the air is amazingly dry when you go high on the snow...and the amount of clothes you must keep on in case you fall into a crevasse easily conjure to easily feel far hotter than here.

Giuseppe No marathon of the sand. This is actually the largest caldera of a set of vulcanoes. More images are in the same folder. So that's plain hiking. At any rate, I fully agree with you that the stride, as mentioned above, is definitly fast (for reasons which have little photographic interest) and therefore makes the picture slightly incongrous. This was an effect I hoped to achieve and it looks like someone has remarked it...

Dr.Brown Further to the right does not work... I have a larger frame with more of the volcano rim to the right taked some seconds later and is a disaster...the path on which she is walking screms against that composition. As from further to the left... it might be yet another life for this shot, but I shall need the original scan to try it, which I do not have now...

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Sometimes is a pity to be in a beautiful place like that and having no time to rest there until the light become warmer. Anyway the place is beautiful, the shot gives really the idea of the heat and I feel a bit of envy not to be there now.
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