single photos Le Puy-en-Velay

Best to view large - weird jpg artefacts appeared on the smaller

version.

 

Commments are very welcome!

Great!!! The sky makes it for me. The way the colors of the sky compliment the rooftops is perfect.

Nicely seen,

Jerry

I bet you'll be having a line of the same wow's as I did. Just great...! I also bet for some 30 7's to gather in a week's time...just two from me...7/7!

Easily one of my favorites. Double wow!

Wow!! Great capture Marianna. Sun-rays & color of sky are amazing. Congrats!

What an incredible photo!!! Does this place exist outside of your imagination? Cheers, J

You have a winner here.

Awesome! Just an amazing image.

Nothing less then stunning! Congratulations! This place is for real? 7/7

Incredible colors & light,very good exposure and composition,Marianna.

Really beautiful work, Marianna! Best regards, Ruud!

Excellent.

I find it aesthetically pleasing on the first look, but the light on the buildings is apparently coming from a different direction than that from the sky. It looks quite unnatural as a consequence. Good PS work anyway. Just my two cents. Peter

Thank you all for comments!

Le Puy-en-Velay really exist and it is so remarkable a place that I kept asking myself this the whole day I was there. There is also another huge statue facing this one on the other side of town as well as a huge cliff in the middle of the city with a little chapel on top. I will post more later. One photo of this place was so remarkable I drove over 300 miles south of Paris just to see it. I did not make any changes to the structures but I did change the sky since the position of the cloud was just too perfect a match.

 

Peter,

 

you are completely right, the light was from the side on the original while it should have been backlit. Photo was taken near the sunset too and had strong shadows. I erased all frontlighting, the most obvious side shadows and darkened the area the would be in shadow from the the castle and the rock. I had created some chimney shadows as well. I stoped at that point since removing all side lights appeared to make a picture quite blank and dark. I am posting the version before any shadow correction, you can see how much more wrong it looks.

 

Best regards, Marianna

 

 

Lets see if I have this right--the sun is going down in the back, but the statue and the buildings are lit from the left? Is it too much work to make sure that the lighting matches. I like the idea, but the execution falls short and the resulting image will not survive more than a cursory glance.

Allen,

 

See my comment and image just above your posting.

 

Best regards,

Marianna

 

Merry Christmas, and Happy New Year, or at least Happy Holidays.