La Mazade, Thursday 3 august, evening. Golden clouds

La Mazade with the passing days (Continuation)

The same day, about 9 p.m. When we got back from an excursion I see above my landscape some magnificent little red clouds in a dark limpid blue sky. I know that it will not last long, so I have to act fast. But you must not for all that push on the release mechanism without thought. While placing the tripod and the camera on it, I think that if I take a general measure, the superb red colour of my clouds could well be greatly made dull. On the other hand, if I take the measure of the light on the clouds, all the earth�s landscape will be too dark and without detail. Conversely, if I expose for the ground, the clouds will be overexposed. The solution is evidently to use a gradient grey filter on the sky. So, taking the measure on the ground, the filter will lessen the higher brightness of the sky and the clouds will be not overexposed nor the ground underexposed. I take the shot with the 28 mm. Some seconds after, the light on the clouds has already deeply gone down and they have become almost grey..

To be continued

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La mazade with the passing days

B-E-A-U-T-I-F-U-L !!, so heavenly.

 

Regards

Le projet avance... mais cette fois avec une lumiere magnifique et ces nueges de reve...

Beautiful colors!

Friend, this is an example of excellence over the art of photography. lol

Excellent capture, Henri. The composition, clouds, colors and light are great. Very nice scene! Regards!

Henri, this is magnifique ! the golden clouds are so playful and surreal, salu Jana

a beautiful image and a very interesting presentation.

The contrast red/blue warm/cold makes the photo stand out.

Congrats Fabio

Belle maitrise de la lumiere, qui parvient tout a la fois a faire de la maison le centre de la composition et l'englober dans une atmosphere superbe de limpidite.

Si quelque chose devait y etre ameliore, ce serait ce pilier a l'avant-plan gauche, un detail.

Michel

The light on the clouds is excellent. A fine addition to the series.

Hi Henri,

 

It seems to me if you can't get enough of that place you have celebrated your vacations. I suppose you must have made thousands of pictures there. But that wonderful place is it more than worthy.

 

This picture in the series is very special because of the golden clouds; some sort of a present form heaven.

 

Warm Regards,

 

Ada:)

Outstanding capture and composition. Perfect. Congrats !

Larger view really brings out the landscape. Tones and colors in clouds are excellent.

Thank you all for your comments. Ada, I have made perhaps about fifteen photos of this landscape (counting the large panoramic views made with 3, 4, 5 or plus shots). I have taken at least one shot a day during three weeks.

Very nice clouds and I like the contrast of the yellow and blue. I am not sure about the chimney in the foreground... I would prefer to see more of the house perhaps.

Henri, the foreground is so dark but this is very good because it adds a peaceful quality in the last light of the day. Cheers.

Great composition and colors. Xiang Gao

Thank you for those new comments. Manolis, I am not sure also about the chimney but I decided to leave it there even though. About the houses, there is another building hiden by the tree on the right, but there was only one possible view point, as I have said, this one, from the door of the house were we lived in. But in my opinion, this only farm building seen between two bunches of trees is better than more houses. Regards, Henri

Very nice again Henry, mast be seen large, the clauds are looking like suspended in the air, beautiful warn/gold colors and well composed.