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MCHK 2000
{K:4701} 2/25/2004
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Beautiful highland shot, well composed, great capture, well done, congrats !!!
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Alex Teller
{K:8286} 2/16/2004
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Well, my dear friend, Andrej, thanks for your long comment on my New Orchid. Your pictures are even better and more diverse, so you know what it takes. I greatly admire your pictures with the mountains, the landscapes, the views, as well as everything else you publish. I am delighted that we can share this excellent hobby.
More power to you, Andrej, and thanks for your generous comments.
Best regards, Alex
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Govert Nieuwland
{K:674} 2/14/2004
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beautiful photo, Andrej. what about the dark spot: maybe crop it away, just a little. or you could try the shadow/highlight function in Photoshop CS. (although i tried it with your picture, but without satisfying results
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john amore
{K:14015} 2/5/2004
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great shot good contrast and color well done Jophn
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Caprice Duvent
{K:3998} 1/31/2004
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don't do nothing with the darkness on the left, everything is perfect !
Beautiful landscape shot!
Congrats
Regards
Caprice
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Ana Vianna
{K:15270} 1/27/2004
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Excellent work, Andrej! So beautiful scene! My regards!
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Roger Cotgreave
{K:15892} 1/27/2004
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beautiful Andrej..I like it as is but PS is the modern Droom and I recommend learning it because a few tweaks here and there can make or break a pic. This would be very easy to 'fixup'..thanks for your comments roger
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L B.
{K:13965} 1/27/2004
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You really did a wonderfull job against the light capturing the colours. Wonderfull silent photo. I as a viewer can feel the silence that ( i think was there ) at 1100 feet.
And about the darkness at the left i think you should photoshop it a bit and brighten it up, but not to much so you don't get the other parts out of colour. I did it by select a piece of the dark part, "cut via layer" and than brighten it all +10 up. And i also crop a bit of the most left darkness. Tell me what you think!!
Greets, Lex
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Kristina Kohut
{K:49990} 1/26/2004
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Again, a very beautiful composition and so wonderful mood! I don't know what suggestion I could come up with about the dark area... You have already got a bunch of good advices, and personally I think it's great like this too. But I have a quite light screen, so for me it's not black and I see the details quite clear.
I love the freshness in this photo, and that water looks so beautiful with the reflections in it!
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Jani Salvataggio
{K:27283} 1/26/2004
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Wonderful landscape!!! Very good lighting!!!
great work!!!
best regards
Jani
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Paolo Barthelemy
{K:25552} 1/26/2004
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Excellent composition with great perspective and naturality. I agree with Hugo about the dark part on the right. It has the right amount of detail and brightening it would just decrease the pleasant, natural feeling of this shot. Leave it as it is, its' great!
Best regards, Paolo
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Robert Gaither
{K:34128} 1/25/2004
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I tell something I have been liking a lot lately is to shoot in manual get a dark contrast image so you will have a blue sky. I use a polarizer and exposer composition into the negative usually around a -2/3. It would work with this one also. I would then copy the background into a layer. Then I would screen or curve that layer lighter to make the dark side better. Then with the history brush I would paint back in the darker and more blue sky and lighter side. You can also lasso and select the dark side and put that into a layer or mask and curve that into being lighter. If you have any questions e-mail and I will be glad to help you out. Nice image and capture.
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Hrvoje Plantak
{K:259} 1/25/2004
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simpaticno mjestasce, i maravno predivna fotka :)
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Bill Ciavarra
{K:10216} 1/24/2004
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nice landscape...nice low camera angle.
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Emgy Massidda
{K:60358} 1/24/2004
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Oeps, I forgot the rating
Here it comes
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Emgy Massidda
{K:60358} 1/24/2004
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Beautiful scenary, lovely colours and lighting. I like it a lot
When I saw the thumbnail I first I thought that the spot on the left is indeed very dark and somewhat distracting. Now, looking at the larger size, I must say that I do not mind the dark part at all. It is just natural shadow and you can clearly see a tree and other detail of the landscape. However you can easily get it just a little lighter adjusting the brightness and contrast in PS. Just one click on the area and you select it all using the magic wand tool.
Anyway, I think this is a great capture
Best regards and thanks for comment
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Eduardo Bernardes
{K:8999} 1/24/2004
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Wonderful landscape! Very beautiful view.
Well done!
7/7
Congrats, Eduardo
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Gregory McLemore
{K:35129} 1/24/2004
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Pristine beauty, well captured.
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Kees and Carolyn
{K:15193} 1/24/2004
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Yes, this is a great quality photograph! Excellent photo! P.S. Yes, we have been scanning on
our photos, and, yes, one of our cameras is an old SLR. Thank you for the tip! We're going to see
if we can get our pictures put on CD. We live in a town of 600 people. The nearest town that accepts
film is an hour and half drive away, and they have to send the film out for development. We live on an
island. Pretty remote, but we'll see what they can do!
This is such a beautiful photo you have here, with good clarity and color!
Carolyn
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Orazio Minnella
{K:49417} 1/24/2004
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Beautiful scene!Great colors!Excellent details and composition.
Regards....Orazio
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Tim Bronkhorst
{K:9391} 1/24/2004
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Wonderfull picture Andrej! About the darker left side, well you could just crop a part of it away but then you would also have to crop of a upper or lower horizontal part. So to me just leave it, the eye is drawn into the beautifull sight over the river, not directly to the left.
Greets Tim.
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Jimmy Payne
{K:21163} 1/23/2004
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Hello Andrej,
You should leave everything as is in this photo. I have lived in and traveled all around this part of our country(USA). That said, I can say that your photograph captured a true vision of a small part of the majestic landscapes visible throughout this area. Beautiful, scene shot. No PS needed.
Best wishes,
Jimmy
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Graham Mulrooney
{K:15728} 1/23/2004
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This is a most beautiful image with the lakes and mountains your local scenery makes me envious. The rocks lake and mountains makes a great compositon but I think the dark bits detract from the image. The rocks now lead into the image with my cropped version. What do you think?
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Jeff Cartwright
{K:52046} 1/23/2004
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Hi Andrej : Very picturesque photograph, maybe if you cropped of the left hand side, and lowered the top, a little , the picture might be improved......however its a nice picture as it is....!!!
Regards:
Jeff
Alberta, Canada.
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jake griffin
{K:3439} 1/23/2004
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ps, Andre, i just read your description which agrees with my thoughts. It amazes me on this site how most everyone says lovely without any critical thought, even when you asked for it but anyway, i think the dark area can be adjusted in ps as well, but then bringing it out to much will disturb the balance. My final conclusion, this is an attractive if not unique image, just with some exposure faults that in todays world can be adjust, thank god. Good luck.
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jake griffin
{K:3439} 1/23/2004
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the background mountain / sky is very pale due mostly to the sun, but i think the forground has to washed out an appearance as well, to brown, although the image is nice and sharp, perhaps some ps work will improve this image.
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Rob Ernsting
{K:8899} 1/23/2004
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Very nice Andrej, well done, nice composition and almost surreal trees. Congratulations. Regards Rob.
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Johnny K
{K:12635} 1/23/2004
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Beautiful view ! I like the camera placed near the ground !
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orchid tropic
{K:5431} 1/23/2004
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Hello Andrej..:)
Beautifull photo and great colors, stones theyself are sharp and beautifuly exposed,
nice work..:))
best regards, Orchid
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Hugo de Wolf
{K:185110} 1/23/2004
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Andrej, thanks for your comment! I feel flattered.....;) The composition is very good; well balanced, and apart from a slight red wash, I like it alot! I don't think you should do anything with the darkness on the left; it still has quite alot of detail in it, and I see no way in preventing it without overexposing the other parts. Besides, due to the details and contrast in the dark parts, it adds an element of transition from woods into the open to the photo, which is very nice. The only way to circumvent the shadowy parts is to wait for the sun to turn..... I see no harm in tweaking the levels in Photoshop, it brings back the feeling that was originally there.... If you change nothing that cannot be achieved in a darkroom, you still use your original work....
Cheers,
Hugo
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Bob Smith
{K:2340} 1/23/2004
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So I wanted to add that I think this is a great photo as is really. I just gave that advice because you asked what to do about the dark spot :)
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Bob Smith
{K:2340} 1/23/2004
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Here is the original to play with. I hope this advice helps you.
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Bob Smith
{K:2340} 1/23/2004
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Ok so bare in mind I am new to this also... But you could try a couple of things. In PS you could create a level's adjustment and adjust right for the bright area. Make a copy level of the background and adjust it for the dark area. Then use the layer mask to mask out the bright area. Then when you flatten the image will have been adjusted for the bright and the dark. I have attached a photo that I did it on. I will include both, because it was a really easy one to practice with.
Another option is to use the gradient tool set to darken or color burn (experiment with both and opacity). Not as useful in this scene, but in others you can make it work like a ND Grad filter.
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jon parsons
{K:13639} 1/23/2004
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Andrej, very very beautiful capture! wonderful shot in every regard,,,,jon
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Teunis Haveman
{K:53426} 1/23/2004
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Andrej, excellent landscape
Teunis
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