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Evening in La Mancha


alberto.conde

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I like the composition with the lonely tree and clouds with the rays of the sun over all. I am not sure about the grain effect so I passed your shot through Neat Image noise reduction for comparison. Not sure which I prefer...

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Esta bien el trabajo de Colin, en especial lo logrado con el cielo que es donde mas se aprecia el grano de ese caduco carrete. La tierra sin quedar mal pierde textura y da sensacion de arena, queda mas suave, mas lisa. Pero en general bien, aunque como ella dice las dos son buenas pues duda cual elegir. Te quito 1 punto de estetica por el grano y te doy un 7 por la originalidad que esta en la mancha negra (arboleda?) de la izquierda de donde parten los rayos pues es un original a?adido a la foto de arbolito en lejano horizonte que todos hemos intentado hacer alguna vez.
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Precioso paisaje minimalista Alberto con un gran efecto de luz. Mi espalda esta mejor gracias, por eso estoy criticando tus fotos. He acercado el monitor, lo he orientado mas hacia abajo y me he puesto un cojin en la silla y parece que funciona...Estoy a punto de nombrarte Gran Hermano ya que el genuino ahora no ejerce.....
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A magnificent, minimalistic landscape. Perfect composition, and grain... Hmm, total NeatImage tuning looks like plastic, IMO a bit grain reduction for the sky would not hurt anyway. So, I NeatImaged the whole photo, made a composite with the original, masked the land (love the grain here !), and let 50% opacity show through a bit grain in the sky to conserve the "film feeling". BTW, what is your impression of your 35 mm focal length of the lens in your "backup" Leica mini II - I mean, is it really wide enough for landscapes ? I am sitting on the fence for a second, smaller than DSLR camera, "pocketable" but good enough for landscapes (maybe the new Panasonic LX1 could be such a thing)

 

Regards

 

Carsten

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Estupenda reivindicacion del paisaje manchego. La composicion es simple, pero sin caer en el aburrimiento. La textura del primer plano es deliciosa y la ligera caida de la linea del horizonte nos libra del aburrimiento. A destacar tambien el trazo negro de esa misma lina de horizonte. No coincido con Federico en el valor que la da a la mancha boscosa de la izquierda, que para mi rompe un poco la simplicidad y armonia de la composicion. Las nubes estan bien, pero tambien podrian no estar. Creo incluso que mejorarian un poco haciendolas menos evidentes. Pero, en fin, son comentarios que me surgen precisamente por las vueltas que le doy a tan estupenda foto. Por cierto, el BN un total acierto.
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I love the simplicity of the composition and the sun rays which radiate in all the sky.

 

About Neat image, I think that the version proposed by Colin is too much smooth and doesn't look natural. Even if there is very much grain in your version I do prefer it even though. Yet, the Carsten's version is better than the Colin's version.

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I, specially, appreciate the efforts of Colin and Carsten. On Colin's eveybody agrees (as I do,myself) that is good on the sky but converts grass into sand. Carsten's is better.

To Carsten:

I am fascinated with my Leica Mini II.

A bunch of spanish speaking photo.netters have recently bought almost every Mini II that appeared in e-Bay Deutchsland and are, all, fallen in love with it.

I suggest you visit the portfolios of Paloma Ramirez, Mauricio Alcaraz, Marina Poblacion, Guillermo Labarca or mine.You'll see why we are all in love with it.

BTW, price goes between 75 and 90 euros...

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Esto es un pedazo foto y lo demas son tonterias. Que te puedo decir: sutil, bella, estetica, maravillosa luz... Me quedaria contemplandola tiempo y tiempo
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Tengo la sensacion de que aqui intentaste "emular" tu otra foto del arbol que es buenisima...

 

I do not mind the grain at all. Colins version looks too artificial... and I also like the half bushes on the left, they make this image "different"... I think... do not know...

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I would like to hang this on my wall, right next to Sebastio Salgado.

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