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The Art of Photography => Landscape Showcase => Topic started by: Hans Kruse on November 14, 2017, 12:02:14 pm
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I live Tuscany in late autumn. This photo is from one of the last days in October this year. This year it was very dry and almost no green in the fields. The fields had been meticulously combed by the farmers.
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Landscapes/Tuscany/i-B6LNFKz/0/3cb25dc1/X3/_P4A4220-X3.jpg)
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Superb shot. Yes, this year it was unusually dry but this also gives a different landscape (vs rainy fall).
Well done!
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Superb shot. Yes, this year it was unusually dry but this also gives a different landscape (vs rainy fall).
Well done!
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Thierry
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Good job Hans! I was there for Workshops both twice mid- and end- of October, when I got very uncooperative weather and blue skies, and a third time last weekend, when the weather was just great instead :) It was a very strange fall, very warm late in the season. I loved it how you composed Terrapille and the "Gladiator's road" leaving the sky out, I assume it was not a very conducive sky that evening and you made very good use of the conditions you had :)
Best regards,
Vieri
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Stunning!
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Excellent! Just the right light. It seems to be a elevated view point. Is that a hill or what?
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Superb, stunning, excellent... yes, they all apply.
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Lovely image!
Congratulations!
Erik
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I think a singular and really great shot !
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It really makes me want to get back to Tuscany. My one visit was in the spring, and now I would love to be there in the fall.
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I was stationed in Italy for four years and this really brings me back. Wonderful image!
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Excellent composition and light, as always. On a sad note, we will see the impact of a dry and not-normal warm season soon...
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Good job Hans! I was there for Workshops both twice mid- and end- of October, when I got very uncooperative weather and blue skies, and a third time last weekend, when the weather was just great instead :) It was a very strange fall, very warm late in the season. I loved it how you composed Terrapille and the "Gladiator's road" leaving the sky out, I assume it was not a very conducive sky that evening and you made very good use of the conditions you had :)
Best regards,
Vieri
Thanks Vieri, my workshop was at the very end of October and into November and we had great sky for some of the days. We did not have rain until the last morning when it was poring down. I went to Abruzzo with a part of the group on a private workshop and we had dramatic weather with rain and snow, so I assume Tuscany had a lot of rain during that week too. Which is really what was needed for the crop to grow. I did not go back and went straight back to Denmark. The composition I did was not due to lack of sky but the kind of compositions I do a lot in Tuscany of only including land in different shapes and formations and I especially like sunrise when the sun starts to hit the land and outline the shapes and the colours.
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Excellent! Just the right light. It seems to be a elevated view point. Is that a hill or what?
Thanks. It was shot from the wall around Pienza where you can overlook the landscape and shoot the various hills and roads like the Gladiators Road in the picture. It is quite different than going down to shoot closer, which we also did.
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Lovely image!
Congratulations!
Erik
Thanks Erik. I missed you stopping by in the Dolomites this year :)
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It really makes me want to get back to Tuscany. My one visit was in the spring, and now I would love to be there in the fall.
Thanks Eric, I have the fall in early November as my favourite for Tuscany. Of course, I love spring in May, but the late autumn with the fields that have been ploughed and flattened and sowed with the new crop is amazing. Normally there is greenery from the new crop coming up but this year no rain had fallen and it was very dry. But it was still fantastic and all fields were ploughed this time which is unusual.
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Excellent composition and light, as always. On a sad note, we will see the impact of a dry and not-normal warm season soon...
Thanks Paulo, but the rain came when we left Tuscany and I think the crop is growing now like crazy. But the outlook maybe problematic for decades into the future. In hope to live long enough to see this place many times in the future.
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Simply beautiful. Ken
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A variation on the picture above is the following (not a crop of the above).
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Landscapes/Tuscany/i-BJKGb7B/0/6e9ccc83/X3/_P4A4238-X3.jpg)
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Ooh! You are continuing to torture me, Hans! Gorgeous!
-Eric
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Ooh! You are continuing to torture me, Hans! Gorgeous!
-Eric
Thanks Eric :) There are (were) many other small scenes to pick out of the grand landscape with a long lens from far away at Pienza. Here is one more which you could hardly see without looking into the viewfinder. Shot at 360mm.
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Landscapes/Tuscany/i-sZfp8tq/0/0a07b838/X3/_P4A4235-X3.jpg)
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Definitely need to sip a bit more chianti after looking at those ...
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Definitely need to sip a bit more chianti after looking at those ...
Thanks and maybe a Brunello from Montalcino would be in order :)
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Thanks and maybe a Brunello from Montalcino would be in order :)
probably. i got one fine bottle of this fine stuff, maybe thats a sign ... ;-)
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Thanks and maybe a Brunello from Montalcino would be in order :)
These shots definitely warrant a Brunello di Montalcino!
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Beautiful work, Hans!!! I love being there...but ,as an artist, it's to groomed for my visual needs.
Peter
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Exceptional Hans. I like how you worked the subject and the light. A good lesson to those who want to learn to really see.
JR