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Comments and critiques are welcome

Perfecta imagen, excelente luz, color y gran composicion, bello encuadre, saludos cordiales Alberto.

Como dice Julio, es una excelente composition. Un bellisimo paisaje con una luz fabulosa, muy buena foto!

 

Saludos, Daniella

The light is terrific on this one.

Composicion, color. Cielo: impregna toda la foto y realza el castillo. Excelente foto; como siempre.

Excelente imagen, perfecta luz y composicion.

Me gusta la inclusion del grupo que baja por la carretera, anade interes y proporciona el factor humano.Saludos

Magnifica. Creo, una de tus mejores fotos. (el detalle de los paseantes, puntos extra!) Provoca hacer maletas y salir disparado a Espanya. Te felicito Alberto.

Me gustan tanto tus fotos como me disgusta comentarlas porque es tan poco lo que se puede decir. Esta es un ejemplo de eso, todo esta bien, la composicion, la iluminacion, el cielo y la gente que viene bajando. Todo contribuye para crear una atmosfera que muestra el castillo en su verdadera dimension y en sus relaciones con el paisaje, el cielo y los humanos. Ademas el castillo dimensiona todo lo que lo rodea. Hay un ensayo de Heidegger, "Holzwege" se llama, que dice que una obra de arte "revela la realidad de lo existente" y una de las maneras de hacerlo es estableciendo relaciones con lo que la rodea, con el contexto. El da el ejemplo del Acropolis que nos da una medida para valorar la colina en que esta, el cielo, el mediterraneo y la gente que sube a el. Aqui pasa algo parecido, en tu foto se ponen en relacion todos los elemntos cuya valor es determinado por la obra de piedra.

Well-seen and captured. Yes, beautiful light. Too bad the people are in the road though. Did you take another exposure a minute later, after they'd walked out of the frame?

Beautifull Light and composition!!!

 

The castle stands tall in the midst of nature!

 

Very powerful pic!

 

Debashis

This is a very powerful picture. Excellent composition. Almost a masterpiece. But the halo around the castle gives some feeling of cheap photoshopping and the high contrast in the clouds distract from the details in the lower part of the photo. This could be easily fixed to make it a real masterpiece. Thanks for accepting my critique. Karl

Stunning !! I like it .

Como soy medio Catalan, es dificil sacarme los sietes... Como me has sacado dos, ya puedes imaginar lo que pienso de la foto. Y vuelvo a decir, tus fotos tienen mas calidad tecnicamente desde que te has pasado al digital. Adeu noi!

Fantastic light and sky. It's a really minor point but although including people here's probably beneficial from a scale point of view, I personally find the group of people on the right distracting from the mood of the picture in this case.

 

Still a great shot overall though.

 

John.

Superb light and colors, nearly perfect exposure (red channel is clipped in some parts of the sky - minor issue). Artfully composed. I tried to imagine the shot without the humans, I guess it is better with than without them. Of course, less modern styling would be perfect... I see what Karl means: a corollary of the brightness gradient of the sun area behind the castle ? Or really dodging there ?

May I dare saying that this is the most amazing photo of all your castles!!!!

I would certainly put this easily in the top drawer of your castle shots - magnificent! The sky is perfect and the light on the castle gives a brooding feeling. To me the foreground fgures are right aesthetically in giving scale and another point of interest in the composition. They are also in the time-honoured tradition of the 'picturesque' as seen in landscapes from the Enlightenment period of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Here it was said that landscapes should always include either animals or humans to give scale and so a sense of the sublime. The artists textbooks of the time even specified that three was the ideal number of figures. I see you have opted for 5! The light on the distant landscape is very good too as it throws the dark mass of the castle hill into the foreground. My congratulations and admiration!

Your support is very important to me since I came back home from this castle hunting expedition with a severe bout of flu and coughing that's sent me into bed. I might be getting too old to climb castles...

The analysis of Colin and Guillermo Labarca are very interesting. I favour, lately, the inclusion of people in my photos of castles -if I have the opportunity- since it not only gives a sense of scale but reminds us of what these powerful structures meant in terms of sufferings to the serfs of their lords.

I feel that these are enough arguments to explain to Kurt Kramer that he's wrong in his advice.

Really beautiful work, Alberto!

Alberto me has dejado sin palabras para comentarte esta fotografia. La disposicion de los volumenes dentro de la misma es sencillamente de libro (Y eso que a ti te la traen al pairo las reglas :) ). El cielo, Albertiano donde los haya, es impresionante y muy de acorde con la fuerza petrea del castillo. La inclusion de las figuras del camino muy acertada, pues nos da una referencia de la inmensidad de la fortificacion. De la luz, color, tonos y contraste, que te voy a decir... en su justa medida. Chapo!!! amigo Alberto.

PD. Cuidate y que estes pronto en plena forma.

 

 

 

Hmm... I gelt that the people are an essential part of the picture composition. The rolling clouds are dramatic and portray the dynamics of time. The castle is a military fortification, possibly covered with blood in

ancient times. But the common people walking leisurely and happily towards the camera in peace and harmony are really the element that pulls this picture together - things are well, take it easy, life goes on...

The light is magic here Alberto, the color variation of the castle and sky are well uniting the image. I like the people in one side and the lower landscape behind ( LL). The dramatic sky is a wonderful connection to the dominant castle. Composition is full of majesty.

Beautiful, excellent light and sky!

Se puede hacer una foto mejor de un castillo??? pienso que es imposible!!!!