Peaceful view

Please write some words about your impression.

Great shot, excellent composition, tones, exposure and details!

 

My best regards,Gabi

Thank you, Gabi!

Leonid, this was taken under difficult lighting conditions (mid-day), and parts of the image are washed out. I did two very quick adjustments in PS: levels (which help to saturate the colors of the foreground) and curves on the background (which helped the contrast). You can see where I selected the background, because I did this very quickly and was not careful; greater care and more time would have resulted in an invisible selection; I may have needed to select everything above the tree line, including the town on this side of the body of water.

Thank you, Stephen, for your comment. Of course, I could do the same treatment of the image. But I prefer soft colours (perhaps, intermediate variant between our two versions would be better).

By the way, the photo was taken at about eight o'clock in the morning. But there was a haze in the atmosphere and the polarizing filter was not effective due to the maximum zoom (200mm focal distance).

Mr. Leonid Dombrovsky,

 

Your stunning photo of the dewdrops on the spider web drew me to your portfolio. Let me first say that the tones and detail of the dewdrops is simply awesome! Your eye for the minute detail that surrounds us is striking.

 

This photo is delightful too. I tinkered with it a little in Lightroom, but I'd not be so presumptuous as to send it. Suffice it to say that if this image were mine, the first thing I would do is to crop out 90% of the sky above the mountain range. They sky isn't very dramatic and pulls my eyes away from the marvelous foreground and middle ground details. So just get rid of it! Very few of my images have a "conventional" aspect ratio. In the photo classes I teach, I encourage my students to get rid of the "8x10" mentality (perhaps in your culture, picture frames have another "standard" dimension). This is just to say that I encourage them not to be confined or restricted by "standard" print sizes.

 

Now I guess I'll have to upload some images so I can endure similar "slings and arrows!"

 

Really, I love your stuff!!

 

Ron Plasencia

Morristown, TN