My neighbourhood in a sunny/rainy day...

Sometimes i feel like this...words please...

Meravigliosa

Beautiful colors, and detail; like a painting . . .

5 6

Wonderful!!

I love the not real feel to this image.

The sky is a bit distracting, might crop it down a bit.

great work

I love the not real feel to this image.

The sky is a bit distracting, might crop it down a bit.

great work

This is very beautiful Francesco. It is like a painting. Very nice composition and color.

 

I have only two suggestions for improvement. There is some noise in the sky, try some noise reduction plugin with a mask just for the sky. But the most important is that sky in the middle left area is somewhat washed out. You can use the highlights section of the "Shadow/Hightlight" tool in PS to restore some detail here, again with a mask (or history brush). Or if you shoot raw you can create and underexposed layer and blend it with this one. This will improve a lot the image in my opinion, because this area distracts from the beautiful foreground.

 

Best regards.

I may be wrong but I have a feeling this is cropped. I also feel it was taken with a relatively cheap lens. The distortion in the verticals to the left are less pronounced than the verticals to the left.

 

I realise this is a strange thing to say but this is such a wonderful picture and you have such a great talent that I would love to see what you could do with different equipment.

Wow, thank you guys, i am amazed, as this shot was taken just because i loved the sky and the sun comming through...the location is in my backyard and i did not so much pay attention to the foreground...it is a bit sloppy and i will try the sugestions, the lens is a cheappy indeed the "kit" 18-55mm from the 350D from canon.

tx again...

FrancescoM

This is beautiful Francesco! :)) Only grain in skies distract me little...but this image is really "something"! :))

oh, what a beautiful scenery and town and tones and all!!

Bravo!

Biliana

I feel as if transported. This neighborhood looks as though magic colors the land and makes anything possible......

Great sky, I like the dramatic feeling about it very nice 6/6

What a wonderful and sureal looking photo, simply so fine! I just got me an XT, with kit lens, but I haven't as yet, taken a photo such as this. You need to tell me how you did it. Did you do much post proccessing, and do you shoot in RAW? I just love it, it looks a little magical indeed. Thanks, Lani

To LH :

the main technique is the use of a gradual tobacco filter from dark brown (upper part) to white/yellowish (lower part) and applying of a warm 85 photo filter in PS. (not hand coloring)

The picture itself was first sharpened a bit with the Unsharp mask and then blurred with the smart blur to attain the impressionist look (I love impressionism) and the use of curves (when learned you can do miracles with it)

That is about the picture.

 

And yes i mostly shoot raw...

Good photo, nice backyard view. I'm jealous.