Early Tuscan Sun

[Bob G]

After our sunrise shoot and some coffee and breakfast we headed out into some farm areas.

These paddocks had been growing wheat but had already been harvested.

Comments welcome:

[biggerry]

Comments welcome:

hey Bob, it would be tops if you could elaborate on what kinda feedback your looking for - also including all your holiday images into one thread would really help and reduce the workload for the small number of members on here providing critique, i for one would be more inclined to look and comment.

Onto the image, its a nice classic, cliche composition with the road leading down to the next villa, i saw some almost identical images from my sister who was over there a couple of weeks ago. The Processing on this image needs a bit more work before being plonked in the photo-book, i find the image a bit too contrasty for the scene which is particularly noticeable on the hills and where the smog/mist/haze is, this has become dirty rather than just foggy if that makes sense, dialling back the contrast will return some of that haze which i think would suit this scene. Haze is a natural part of this landscape

There is also quite a noticeable amount of noise in the sky which could be due to processing? in anycase a selectively de-noising this area would make for a much better image in my eyes. Is the noise evident in the full res version?

The position of the bush on the left works well as a element but it could equally have been removed with a couple of steps forward and preserving the line of the harvested field on the left.

hth.

and remember to critique other members images here and abroad...

[Bob G]

Comments welcome:

hey Bob, it would be tops if you could elaborate on what kinda feedback your looking for - also including all your holiday images into one thread would really help and reduce the workload for the small number of members on here providing critique, i for one would be more inclined to look and comment.

Onto the image, its a nice classic, cliche composition with the road leading down to the next villa, i saw some almost identical images from my sister who was over there a couple of weeks ago. The Processing on this image needs a bit more work before being plonked in the photo-book, i find the image a bit too contrasty for the scene which is particularly noticeable on the hills and where the smog/mist/haze is, this has become dirty rather than just foggy if that makes sense, dialling back the contrast will return some of that haze which i think would suit this scene. Haze is a natural part of this landscape

There is also quite a noticeable amount of noise in the sky which could be due to processing? in anycase a selectively de-noising this area would make for a much better image in my eyes. Is the noise evident in the full res version?

The position of the bush on the left works well as a element but it could equally have been removed with a couple of steps forward and preserving the line of the harvested field on the left.

hth.

and remember to critique other members images here and abroad...

Gerry,

I have no wish is general to limit the scope of any critique/ feedback and if I should have a particular question in relation to any image I'll certainly make that known. I will be months going through my raw files from this trip and my posting of chosen images will be a bit ad hoc as I progress. Images will be grouped where it makes sense and I certainly don't expect you to comment on every image/post.

I used a polariser for this image and that in part explains the contrast. As mentioned in other threads we did experience a lot of haze.
Having said that, I did something else to the image and you have a good eye to have picked this up.
Normally I don't sharpen my images for the web apart from Using the Marc Adamus method.
I also use Pixel Genius's PhotoKit Sharpener when sharpening for print. In this case I used one of the HazeCutter brushes in the creative area of this plug-in just to see how it worked in the distant haze and sky of the image. Two things are apparent the noise in the sky is sharpening/hazecutter related as is the contrast in the distance.

On refection, acceptance of the haze may have been a better option. You can see a similar discussion in reverse with Remorhaz in my Positano thread.

Appreciate your comments.

[Sylvia]

Howdi Bob,
It's a nice image mate but looks a little HDR to me.
The reality of the vista seems to be lost with/by the processing. Just my opinion. I prefer less is more.