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C/R |
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| 33 |
Dec 21 |
Reply |
Thank you for letting me know the details. It's very impressive that the distortion is imperceptible even at 10mm focal length. |
Dec 30th |
| 33 |
Dec 21 |
Reply |
Thank you for explaining more deeper. Now I see the possibilities. It looks very like the celestial mountains besides the celestial see. Really amazing! |
Dec 16th |
| 33 |
Dec 21 |
Comment |
Great work! you blurred most of the scenery in distance, and there might be a little sense of stacked blurring as the distance going further. I once wanted to make this feeling using large aperture at F/4 or even larger, but never worked. And the scenery here is also wonderful especially with heavy cloud in the sky. In China there is a kind of painting art named "Ink wash painting", which using blurring as a way to set off the theme and artistic conception, and they most commonly use the elements of mountains, rivers, trees, and clouds. If there is no cloud, the sky would be totally blank. So, here we can see very dynamic but unique texture and color of cloud, which at the same time is hiding the mountains in distance.
Very nice picture.
And sorry for late comment. |
Dec 16th |
| 33 |
Dec 21 |
Comment |
Sorry for late comment.
It is indeed a wonderful work. You fixed the issues in the original picture, but didn't boost too much of the foreground to make them as light as the buildings far away. This is very important to leave the picture looks as comfortable as natural. And it is really difficult to emphasize the buildings far away since they should be the actual focus but could be easily disturbed by the much closer foreground. Learned a lot from this picture and the conversations above. Thank you. |
Dec 16th |
| 33 |
Dec 21 |
Comment |
Very impressive scenery. But if you were using 10mm focal length, why there isn't any distortion even at the right bottom corner where it's common to see standing people are tilted toward the center of the picture. Moreover, it seems the spot that you take this shot was far from the ground underneath. If it was taken at 10mm focal length and shooting horizontally, should it be more closer to the ground at the bottom? So, I guess the picture could be cropped. But if it was cropped, should you select a longer focal length instead?
But I do love the scenery you delivered in both versions, and I'm curious how that texture of the land get into the form. |
Dec 16th |
| 33 |
Dec 21 |
Comment |
Sorry for late comment.
It's very interesting that there could have 70-year-old abandoned house standing for another 50 years. That won't happen in my hometown, at least in my memory. This gives me a lot of things to think of.
Talking about the picture, for the original one, I can't get the feeling of derelict. But the monochrome version has done this well. And you cropped the picture positioning the house at the center of the picture, so that emphasized that sense and made it more stronger. Very nice work!
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Dec 16th |
| 33 |
Dec 21 |
Comment |
Sorry for late comment.
Very impressive shot. It must require a lot of hard work on it.
I would love to visit that place and see the sunset.
I guess the original picture should have a deep dark region on the central rocks because they are back toward the sun. And that is why this picture gives me somehow a few counter-intuitive feeling, and making it more like an exquisite oil painting. If so, it must be a very high value picture. |
Dec 16th |
| 33 |
Dec 21 |
Comment |
Sorry for late comment. I like the sense which resonates with your previous Kill Bill picture, somehow might not exactly be the sense you had. In the context of this picture, it's difficult to focus on the baby elephant statue at the first glance by nature. But I love this natural sense where the foreground and background tend to merge into each other. Especially for this kind of nostalgia topic with the subject is just about but yet aging out into the desert of history. If it could be done with batter color balance it would be nice, but right now it's good enough for me to get that sense. Very nice picture which also giving out a kind of tender feelings. |
Dec 16th |
| 33 |
Dec 21 |
Reply |
Thank you for your comments and suggestion. And I just learned that sunny 16 rules. It's very interesting. I'll try next time to see what's the difference. |
Dec 14th |
| 33 |
Dec 21 |
Reply |
Thank you for you comments and appreciation.
Since the picture was taken on a boat in the center of the lake where has a lot of wind and waves, I wanted to make sure the shutter is fast enough when I held it with one hand and half of my body hanging out of the rail. Anyway, I also regret for didn't try F/11 at that moment. It will take years to go back to that place and run over again. |
Dec 14th |
| 33 |
Dec 21 |
Reply |
Thank you for you comments and suggestion.
I do have a more desaturated version. But unfortunately, there is too much deep dark region on its right side. Moreover, the Mount Bogda is too small in it. So I chose this picture to share. |
Dec 14th |
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| 33 |
Dec 21 |
Reply |
Thank you for your appreciation and comments. You are right, those triangular shapes really help a lot. Actually I didn't intentionally capture those triangular shapes, it was the nature itself "grew" into such an amazing way. I just happened to be at that spot at a good time and happened to capture its beauty. |
Dec 14th |
| 33 |
Dec 21 |
Reply |
Thank you Mr Patrick for your comments. May I ask where was that cattle place? I guess it's some place in Europe? I was also surprised to see European-style scenery there. But actually not only the sceneries, but also the culture and diets. However, not that much civilized as Europe. Anyway, that trip also let me yearning the sceneries in Europe. |
Dec 14th |
| 33 |
Dec 21 |
Reply |
Thank you for you suggestions. The trip was in a hurry. I took these photos on a boat, which was not quite steady since it was approaching the center of that lake where there were a lot of wind and waves. What's more, there is no room for taking photos in a straightforward direction, I had to hang out of the rail with one hand shooting and the other hand holding the rail. So, I used a large aperture of F/5.6 to ensure the shutter is fast enough to get clear shots safely. If lucky maybe F/11 could get much more beautiful outcome.
Also, since there were a lot of wind and waves, the surface of the lake was not quiet enough to see a clear reflection. But you may also love other angles of that point.
In tales of legend in China, that lake is called "Jade Pool" belonging to the Queen Mother of the West, who is the most powerful wife of the Jade Emperor, who is the Supreme Deity of Taoism. That story sounds like a joke but actually it's not a joke. That place is really amazing.
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Dec 14th |
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