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Description
At the end of summer and in autumn the Val d’Orcia, Tuscany, often gives to the photographers low and thin mist. At night the mist occupies the bottom of the valleys and lights up when the sun rises over the horizon. As the sun becomes starker the mist becomes weaker until it soon disappers so I had to get up early in the morning for being there a few minutes before the sun climbed over the horizon when the blue shadows of the night still resisted but the mist begun to light up. I counted 14 levels in the landscape, is that right?
Specific Feedback
The day was still dark, the photo is too dark?
Technical Details
Z 7ii, Nikkor 70-200mm at 82mm - f/11, ISO 200, 1/6s
Critique Template
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Hi @Giuseppe_Guadagno , What a lovely image of a Tuscan morning you have shared with us. I really like how you have captured the fog and the blue hour ambience. I don’t think it is too dark at all. Well seen and processed.
Just perfect! How I would love to be there. So much to look at in this image. It just draws you through. I think the depth, composition, and colors have been done beautifully.
Hello,
nice foggy morning.
I really like the atmosphere of the first plan, I really like the mix of color temperatures.
I would have cropped a bit more of the sky, showing the whole mountain and giving the impression of the “approaching day”.
What a welcoming scene! It’s not too dark at all, imo - the fog contrasting the darker valleys is perfect, and the touch of bright sky adds the finishing touch. I would not change a thing.
For some reason I think of a battlefield during the Napoleonic wars. The fog being the smoke from the cannons.
I thought of your comment about this being too dark. I find that if photographers express a concern about something there is a reason for it. In my opinion a lighter terrain would look more natural but not as attractive. So from an artistic point of view I think you made the right decision to go darker and emphasize the contrast. It doesn’t look very natural but it is arresting.
This is such a wonderful landscape Giuseppe. The misty bottom lands really do look a lot like smoke from cannons of a recently fought battle as suggested by @Igor_Doncov . I don’t think it is too dark, but I do think the fog may be a bit too bright. I wonder if you could selectively darken some of the mist. I think part of my reasoning that the fog looks too bright is that warm sky in the top. It just has completely different very warm tones compared to the bottom half of the image. A slight warming in the bottom may help the overall image look a little more cohesive.
@guy, @Chris_Baird, @joaoquintela, @SandyR-B, @Igor_Doncov, @Ed_Williams thanks foryour appeciated comments, I am very glad that you liked this photo with a difficult atmosphere. @Ed_Williams you are right that the bottom is darker than the reality. I tried to make it congruent with the rest of the image still very dark; too much may be.
An area of Italy I very much plan to visit some day . I don’t much like crowds so I am looking to go in a secondary season and maybe catch the tail end of the mists that get generated. I love the layering and the good use of colour and light in your landscape. I think you have rendered it very sympathetically. Well done.
