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Description
The hills in the Val d’Orcia offers many surprises for shapes and colors to those who explore this valley with passion as I often do.
That morning the weather was not in favor with difficult low light coninually changing for many clouds driven by a strong wind. I think that this is reflected in the photo but the landscape was so nice and unusual that it was impossible to leave without taking some photos.
Specific Feedback
The image asks for more light?
Technical Details
Z 7_2, Nikkor 70-200mm at 110mm - f/11, ISO 1600, 1/8 sec
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Hi @Giuseppe_Guadagno, You have shared with us another beauty of a Tuscan landscape. The bands of different colored fields and the rows of poplars along the roads are finely assembled into a composition that is working very nicely for you. There are so many subtle details, the eye can find many ways to work through the image. Really well seen and processed! It makes me want to find a table at a small hill town cafe…
Hi Giuseppe,
This is a beautifully lit scene with so many different layers creating this wonderful sense of depth. I love the color palette and the understated processing. No suggestions from me as this is beautifully done!
Gigi, the textures, shadows, layers, and lines here are very captivting. The muted colours are also very effective. Lovely!
A very exceptional image - again!
I have just spent the last 5 or 10 minutes looking at your photo. The pastel shades remind me strongly of a watercolour, however the tractor wheel lines and textures in the fields show it is not. At first I thought that that the top lhs 2/3 are not sky, but rolling hill separated from the adjacent hill by a road, adding to the detail that occupied my eyes.
This photo may work in mono as the trees are much darker than the surrounding fields.
Gorgeous image, Giuseppe. Like others, I love the color palette, the misty or frosty element that creates such softness and pastel colors. The layers of hillside with trees dividing them and the farms and lanes really make this inviting.
At the risk of being a nit-picker, and only if you find it helpful, I do find the one road leading out of frame up to the top to be a bit of a distraction, but I’m taming that impulse. On one hand, it’s there and it’s real. It distracts me, but it also makes me wonder what’s beyond, and that’s kind of cool.
I knew this was your image as soon as I saw the thumbnail, Giuseppe. Your question, does it need more light…no, I don’t think so. I think the light is terrific. The horizontal layers add so much depth to this image and I love the shaded areas in the midround and along the top of the image. This has a very nice blue color cast to it that I love. I think if you warmed it I wouldn’t like the image as much. I guess that says something about the mood you are creating with your tones. I notice two roads leading to nowhere and I find both of them intriguing. The little road that looks like a driveway in the upper left corner going absolutely nowhere and also the road running out of the top of the frame. You could title this roads to nowhere.
@guy, @Bill_Fach, @Ed_Lowe, @SandyR-B, @Rob_Sykes, @Mark_Seaver, @Merylynne Dibbs, @David_Haynes I amvery glad that you like so much this image that presented difficult decisions to me about the level of light, shadows of colors and their saturation, contrasts, but you have incouraged me. Thanks again.
