Swiss Valley


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Title     Swiss Valley
Photographer     thetraveler73/Robin (155) Send mail to this user
Portfolio     Landscape
Categories     Landscape
Travel
Camera     Fuji Discovery
Film     Kodak 400 max
Content advisory     G (general audiences)
Submitted     October 26, 2004 9:21:57 PM CDT
Views     1,141
Rating     20 Thumb-up

Driving back to the airport in Geneva I saw this beautiful veiw. The shadows seemed to just dance across the valley.

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Thumb-up Thumb-up    from translucented/Nicholas (1,616) Send mail to this user on October 27, 2004 8:27:22 PM CDT (4)

Hey Hey Robin!
Such a great photo you have made there. Those vibrant colours and the white clouds howering over the entire village are showing very nice side of the beauty of our mother nature.
I gave you 2TU because of the bad colour on the sky and the clouds. I dont know but this image makes those magnificent on the eye looking clouds very unflattering. They lack the softness, details and the colour contrast. Which all probably could have been fixed using Curves in photoshop.
I would have also tried either taking photo either more towards the left or the right. Right now it is sort of "centralized". I can see on the right side. The beautiful dark, fresh looking green colour beginning to show. Perhaps if you catched some more of THAT, moving your composition towards the right and by doing that the "V" form on the background would be moved to the left and then the image would be more balanced out. As the valley would be ending on the far left corner and the dark green colour on the right would have balanced out the fresh bright greens in the middle.

Anyways, its easy for me to point out what in my opinion could be done different. I know how hard it is to capture an image like you just did. I can only hope that my critique can be of some help to you and the others who might read it.

Well done job my friend! ;)

- nicholas -

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Thumb-up Thumb-up Thumb-up    from sloba/Slobodan (3,133) Send mail to this user on October 27, 2004 8:05:54 PM CDT (1)

Excelent photo. I thing that all is fine. I have nothing to change on this photo. Regards and keep shotting.

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Thumb-up Thumb-up    from djackson99/Drew (555) Send mail to this user on October 26, 2004 10:28:28 PM CDT (1)

Most have commented on the sky and I would have nothing more to add. My eye wants to see more definition and detail in the trees. It is a BEAUTIFUL scene and the shadows are great.

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Thumb-up Thumb-up    from howard45/Howard (1,592) Send mail to this user on October 26, 2004 9:37:37 PM CDT (2)

The lower half of the photo is wonderful it is unfortunate the upper half lets it down. A polarizer and grad filter would have helped. A beutiful place, thanks for shareing

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Thumb-up Thumb-up Thumb-up    from deleted.193077/deleted (301) Send mail to this user on October 26, 2004 9:35:13 PM CDT (2) Early critique

I was going to rate this a 2TU because of the straw in the foreground but this is just too pretty of a scene. Very well composed. Wished i lived close to scenerey that beautiful:) Great job.

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Thumb-up Thumb-up Thumb-up    from beercanpoet/Larry (1,148) Send mail to this user on October 26, 2004 9:33:43 PM CDT (2) Early critique

Hey Robin, I am totally green with envy. I can't even "plan" my shots to look like that, and you simply step out of your car and take a snap. Very impressive work. I wish there was a 4th thumb for amazing snapshots. Thanks for sharing and for inspiring. -BCP

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Thumb-up Thumb-up Thumb-up    from mathieu19/Mathieu (19) Send mail to this user on October 26, 2004 9:30:37 PM CDT (2) Early critique

superbe, your picture is awesome your totally right the shadow seem to dance and the ledge of montain is very sharp. Very nice picture remind of me when i was at the mont blanc in france. congrat's

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Thumb-up Thumb-up    from chip/Chip (3,380) Send mail to this user on October 26, 2004 9:28:06 PM CDT (2) Early critique

you have everything going in this image.great composition & a great location.the wheather was ideal yet what takes away from the image is the overexposure of the top half of the image.invest in a good neutral den.split field filter.that would lower the brightness of the image & add a bit of punch to the clouds.there are a couple of great tobbaco colored filters also that would look good.

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