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Description
In autumn the hills in Val d’Orcia, Tuscany, can take on unique designs and colors. At dawn I was able to admir this landscape while I was walking along a famous road here in Italy because it is the route of a very tough bycicle race called Eroica, heroic in name and in fact. I kept the lights a little low because these neutral colors lose their appeal if brighter, at least for me.
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Technical Details
Z 7ii, Nikkor 70-200mm at 70mm - f/11, ISO 200, 1/4 sec
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Hi Giuseppe, What an evocative image you have shared with us. I envy your access to the delightful Tuscan hills. You, once again, have built a composition of beautiful sensuous curves, repeating the line of the white road through the interesting contours of the fields and beyond to the distant hillside gives the eye much to discover. The lovely soft colors of the field stubble perfectly capture a feeling of autumn and are lit by that raspberry gelato sky. Well seen and processed!
Fascinating and evocative image, as most of your work is. Not too dark at all. I mean, it’s dark but that’s what you’re after I think. It reminds me of Mundt’s work, but that’s just a reaction.
This is quite lovely Giuseppe! The predawn light in the sky is a wonderful mix of warm and cool tones and the graceful curving lines in the undulating hillside take the viewer into the scene perfectly. The lighter toned road also does a fantastic job of drawing the eye into the countryside. The processing looks perfect for my tastes and no it is not to dark. Beautifully done!
Here you take the dull-colored, soggy, fallowed fields and give us a fascinating world of flowing textures. The gentle color of the sky is a perfect complement to the coarser earthbound beauty. The darkness of the earth is just fine for me. I wonder about the brightness of the green vegetation along the road, though; it draws my eye, and seems to be a little inconsistent with the overall scene.
Just wondering, am I looking at fields of No-Till farming? (coltivazione senza aratura)
@guy, @Igor_Doncov, @Mark_Orchard, @Ed_Lowe. @Dick_Knudson thanks for your most welcome comments, I am very glad that you like the photo and approve my processing choices. @Mark_Orchard I have increased the light a bit in the bottom RH corner and the image looks better, thanks for the attention. @Dick_Knudson you are right that the green along the road is too hight and is not in harmony with the rest of the image, I have already lowered saturation and light a bit. Thanks for the advise.
@Dick_Knudson excuse me I missed to answer your question, I don’t now if that field is a No-Till farming but thiss hill, as many others in Val d’Orcia, is made of clay therefore the soil is particular because it has unusual colors and undulations in the ground. Excuse me again.
This is a fascinating contrast to all the wonderful images you have from other times of the year, and the patterns and colors look lovely.
It’s a tiny tweak, but the road winding up and over to the left is important to the flow IMHO, and my eye snags where that jog to the right happens. If that’s taken out, I find my eye flows a little better through the image.
