thomasb

Hello Patrick

It is in Cully, Switzerland. Thank you for your comment.

Hello Michail, Ricardo, Laurent, niki and Gunnar

Thanks a lot for your appreciating comments!

Hello Michail

Thank you for your comment - You are absolutely right. I checked my repository. The corner was really missing. Maybe that it was not enough space behind me or I was afraid of coverging lines. The picture is made with a 14 mm lens and I used the new upright tool in Ligthroom 5.

Hello Christoph and Ruud

Many thanks for your critique. It was a slightly foggy situation early in the morning.

I think it is fascinating to take pictures with such a good camera like a D70, but it is also a hard work to get good ratings in PN.

In your photo it lacks the "eyecatcher" - I mean some object where the eye jumps on.

And you should pay attention to the light conditions. In this photo you have too high lights combined with dark shadows.

You need a composition - an arrangement of forms and colours in a photo. This photograpic eye is one of the difficult things to learn. In a way you make the photo in your head before you press the button of your camera. - An experienced photographer would not take this picture, because the situation gives no good composition.

Perhaps you could take a detail of one object like the water and the stone or from a tree.

Do not give up and make more pictures and post more pictures!

Regards Thomas

Salvatore, thank you for your critique - I agree with it, especially with the "high noon" light conditions.

Glen, I can understand this, it may be because I corrected the distortion extremely - I add the original colour photo.

Matt, Thank you for your really very good critique. And I agree with you in most aspects.

Regarding panoramic view - you are right and I prefer the tele normally. Here I just wanted to try how it looks with wide angle (10-22 mm) and there was not a lot of space in the foreground because my wife was there and other tourists were behind me. - But I made some other shots with a Tele from here.

Regarding distortion, to be honest I intensively corrected it with PS because it was much worse.

Regarding time of the day it was around 1 PM on a bit hazy day. This is in my opinion one of the big issues in mountain photography because you get really often a flat impression which you can't correct with PS work.

But on the other hand side you can't motivate your wife to get up early in the morning. From my perspective the whole thing works better even around noon when you have some clouds and/or fog in the valley.

Regarding B/W - I just wanted to add this picture to other B/W which I took two years ago from the opposite side - the Jungfraujoch.

The photo was taken in Château-d'Oex, in a region of Switzerland

where they have a lot of cheese and chocolate production - Thank you

for your critique!

This was taken from the Eggishorn (2926 Meters above sea) - Thank you

for your critique!

A good old man, sir. He will be talking. As they say, when the age is in, the wit is out.

William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)

I took this picture in our garden - with the sun from the side

against a dark wall - with a minimun of PS work.

Thank you for your critique!