valle d'aosta And suddenly, winter.

Taken last Friday evening, after 5 days of snow. The Cervino

(Matterhorn) is always an amazing piece of stone.

 

Your C&C are as always welcome, thanks for your time.

 

Details: Eos 50D, Tokina ATX-Pro 12-24 f4, B+W 100 ND 10 stops,

GND 2 stops soft, tripod. 80 secs @ f11

Amazing shot!, Congrats.

As I said before, excellent! 7/7a

Beautiful Image , very well done ! Max A

A delicious image, with fine, well-exposed detail throughout. I wonder how this would have looked with a shorter exposure, reducing the motion in the clouds.

Paolo, this is a winter epic! So nice!

Compliments and regards,Chris

Veramente una immagine magica.

ciao.

 

the snow banks against the water/ice are just lovely. great shot.

Very nice image with unusual colours, lovely scenery

Me parece tremenda, lo colores son estupendos, una tranquilidad solamente rota por el movimiento de las nuebes. Felicidades

Truly an outstanding image.

this is unbelievably beautiful! perfect technique, spectacular scenery and light, an exceptional image !

Great Shot, Paolo,

 

Beautiful from top to bottom.

 

Regards,

Jerry

Great tones and colors on your image Paolo!

I love the composition with these snow curves in the foreground. Perfect lighting too with this glow illuminating the frozen lake.

A perfect winter picture!

 

Regards

 

Xavier

Magic Paolo. Excellent. I might tone down the cyan a bit but that's just me. Congratulations on a wonderful shot.

Whoa Boy! Now that's some magenta! Damn! It's going to take awhile, but once I get over the intitial shock of the colors here, it's a pretty strong comp. For me, I'm a bit torn on the saturation, because it looks wildly unnatural, but then again, it definitely adds some uniqueness to the interpretation.

Thank you all for your many comments on this picture, pales. Together with the previous, slightly different composition from this same place that I posted a few days ago, this is for me my best among my recent landscapes. Therefore I'm quite pleased that you like it.

 

I know colours are a bit strange, and they can shock in some way. However, believe me or not, I had to tone down saturation a lot to get here from the picture that came straight out of the camera!

 

I think this was caused by the combination of four elements: the warm light of the setting sun reflected by the clouds - which are not only those included in the comp; the vivid blues of the sky between the clouds; the wide extent of snow, acting here as a giant mirror for light and colours; the very long exposure, which has as a secondary effect the increase in saturation and vividness of colours.

 

I know this picture, as presented here, might not be for everyone. I will also post therefore a b/w conversion of it, as I think the composition works fine, no matter if colorful or... colorless :-)

 

Thank you all again,

Paolo

Paulo, my guess would be that the color came primiarly from the strong filtration. If you'd done a exposure without so many stops of ND it would likely have been more neutral. The actual length of the exposure has only a little impact on the color. That's not to say I wouldn't have liked it more though. The color adds some serious punch here.

Marc,

I think we say the same thing, more or less, but we call it with different names. I mean, everything was already in the scene: the red/magenta from the clouds, the blue/cyan from the sky, the glow on the frozen lake and snow banks which comes from the direct sun light reflected by the mountain flank and sky, etc. But everything has been increased, enphasized by the long exposure obtained by mean of the strong filtration. I have a couple of exposures made only with the GND -but they're useless as the top of the mountain is covered by clouds - and the colours are more or less the same, even if very much less strong and vivid.

There is also a slight warming effect coming from the ND filter itself, no doubt. But this is pretty minor, as I always compensate for it by changing the colour balance accordingly (usually -1000-1200°K).

 

Thanks again for commenting, I really appreciate the discussion.

Paolo

Though I'm less and less attracted by vivid colors, this one works for me.

Harmony of magenta-bluish hues is incredible.

But curious as I'm, I'd like to know why did you choose such a long exposure time?

 

Bella Paolo. Usando il B+W 106 e 110 effettivamente ha una colorazione magenta coi Cokin, sopratutto nella parte alta. Ora ho preso i Lee, teoricamente non dovrei più avere sto problema.

Per me era da 7/7 ma almeno una correzione in psd gliela potevi dare ;) (spingevi un più 25 il verde e addio magenta ed era perfetta ;) )

 

Vabbè x stavolta 7/7 vah .. :p

 

m.

 

Beautifully balanced composition. Think I appreciate the soft glow of the frozen lake most. Bravo!

Absolutely superb work! Bravo!

Wow.I love this image .Beautiful!

Awesome capture! Great...

 

Cheers,

 

Oliver