Aerial view of Salzburg in winter

Urban landscape of Salzburg, Austria, in winter.

I tried to catch all characteristic elements in one picture: the

river, the mountain, and between them the historical core.

Hello Maria.

Such a beautiful city, and you have captured it's feel well in your photograph. Is this a scanned image, as the light does appear a little flat? Try altering the levels in photoshop to correct this problem, and restore the scanned image to the original!

I've had a quick go myself, and would like to know what you think?

Thanks for putting this photograph out in the Critique Forum, so it can be viewed by the wider community.

Regards, Nick.

Hi Nick,

I don't mind at all, thanks a lot, and thank you for the comment, too. I don't have Photoshop.

Yes, it is a scanned image.

The photo shop where I give the films to be developed has the option to command a photo-CD together with the development of the film. I actually found their scans much better than if I was printing (even on A4) and scanning myself.

Somebody even said to me when seeing this photo that it looks like taken with a digital camera - well, no, the size is much bigger.

In any case, the scans from photo negative are better than those from slides, even if the slides give me the liberty of putting 80 selected slides on a CD and not a whole film of half so many photos on a CD again.

Thanks Maria. With photographs as good as this, it would be worth you investing in Adobe photoshop. If its just too expensive, they produce a scaled down version called Adobe photoshop elements, which is just as good for correcting this sort of thing.

Regards, Nick.

Lovely shot Maria and nicely composed. Such a wonderful scene with the snow topped roofs and the different styles and sizes of buidings. I like how you've included the river on the left too curving around the edge holding everything in nicely. I agree about the levels adjustment but I'm sure you'll get arounfd to that when you get Photoshop or Elements. Looking forward to seeing more of your work.

Thanks also for the lovely comment you left on on of my black and white cattle shots.

Matt

Hello Maria, good image, I like it a lot. I know photoshop is quite expensive and I see you are a student. I usally use picassa to modify pictures is a freeware software and you may modify levels and all those related things.

http://www.picasa.com/

Best regards

Hi Jose,

thanks for the kind comment and the suggestion.

I switched from IrfanView, which I was using before, to Macromedia Fireworks, part of the Macromedia Director 8.5 package I have, which has some adjustment curves etc (see the autolevels version above this comment), also for the images I use in my articles etc.

I was thinking before that the photoCD from the shop is optimised so that it cannot be better - but in any case it was better than scanning myself.

Hi Vincentiu,

sorry to here you don't like snow. Would have thought different after seing your portofolio ...

It seems like my camera likes February light best - this and my Lisbon photos, made also in February, although in February there was no snow in Lisbon ;), seem to be the most popular and higher rated from my portofolio on photo.net :)

regards

Maria

For those who liked this image:

I've put together a panoramic view in this folder.

enjoy

Maria

... and similarly to the correspondence at the photo called "'Pocket Park' in Lisbon" above is the eye level view highlighting, I hope at least, the same features of Salzburg.

Shall I post it separately for comments? Or is the one on the churches of Salzburg sufficient?

Thanks a lot again for taking the time to look and comment

fond regards

Maria

Maria, I prefer this second posting to the aerial view. You should definately post it for critique, it is a real winner.

Nick.

Hi Nick,

thank for the encouragement - you also prefer it more than this one ? I agree it has the mountains at the river less, but all church towers. The three views of the family are not taken from the same position, so no panorama possible :(

thanks again

Maria

PS. I will see if I can rework the panorama to get rid of that line on the right, where light changes.

Hi Nick,

so I posted both, and it seems that the one with churches and without mountain was more popular (with regard of comments; there was more discussion, especially on the light coming frontally), and higher rated ...

I any case, now I also have posted the panorama for critique and received some feedback. The line got unnoticed, but unfortunately for the panorama it includes more of the part in shadow than this photo ...

regards

Maria

It really makes me wish to be there. My only comment is I would make the mountain slightly darker.

Toahio

Hi,

thanks for the visit and the kind comment.

Well, this is an example of "there are as many tastes as people" or similar (the proverb slightly differs in various languages). Somebody else wanted the mountain less shadowy when it was darker ...

About being there: it was rather warm, and the snow was melting, not the best time to take a walk ... But in the programme there was in the first evening a concert at Rezidenz with Mozart music and in the second we ate at Stiftskeller St. Peter, the oldest restaurant in Europe, from 800 something (yes, before year 1000!). I will write about it when I'll have enough Austria photos uploaded to do a presentation.

kind regards

Maria

Hi,

thanks for the comment.

Maybe I'll finish my Austria presentation (Salzburg + Vienna) before the Mozart year (next year). But so far I haven't even started any presentation ...

I will let all who commented know :)

regards

Maria