Dachstein Mountain at dusk

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Pentax 67II, 55-100, f16, 8 sec, Pol-filter View from Rossbrand to Dachstein mountain in the Salzburg region, Austria

-- Franz Pritz (franz.pritz@magnet.at), March 29, 2000

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Nice light and color. I'd like to see it much bigger. That lonely little rock in the left foreground.... It seems to be giving thanks to the light.

-- John Wall (jwall@earthjustice.org), March 29, 2000.

That's no rock, it's the place of wood ants, covered with hoarfrost on the very very early morning (don4t know exactly what is the correct English word for ants "place"? Franz

-- Franz Pritz (franz.pritz@magnet.at), March 30, 2000.

Franz-

What a beautiful shot!! I'd have to agree, the light is beautiful the way it is just kissing the grass and flowers on the ground...beautiful. I was first worried about the shot, that you'd be losing detail in the trees because they're so dark, but, upon further inspection you can see it's there, not to worry! If anything, I'd complain about the top left corner of the frame, because the sky is so much darker in that one area, and the way it then starts to blend in to that dark cloud...that's a little distracting, but that'll happen with a polarizer.

Oh, and the proper english word for an ants "place" would be an "ant hill".

A wonderful shot Franz, you should definitly be proud of this one! Good job!

-- Jason Fobart (jason@fobart.net), March 30, 2000.


I think the upper left is fine. It is simply the darker night side of the scene with the early morning light coming in from the right. Thanks for posting the shot!

-- Micheal F. Kelly (radiant@gci.net), March 30, 2000.

Sorry, people, for breaking the rules. I was just reminded that there is a rule to post only one image a week. I promise, I'll stick to the regulations in the future. Please apologise the mistake of a newcomer. Thank's for the hint Rod!

Franz

-- Franz Pritz (franz.pritz@magnet.at), March 30, 2000.



Nice. Unusual light values. Perhaps it is because you used a polarizer, which I would not have thought to use under these low-light conditions.

One criticism, I personally do not much like the tilted tree effect on the right. I presume this is parallax distortion from aiming the camera down, not an actual tilted tree. A perspective control lens could have fixed this, but only Canon makes them and they're expensive. Oh well...

-- Kevin Geraghty (kgeraght@spiretech.com), March 31, 2000.


It looks a little dark on my screen which is calibrated every day. I just wonder if a shrp cuttin neutral grad of one stop would have been good for this image. That color in the foreground would have been really eye popping if it had been about a stop brighter from the trees inward to the camera position. That would have rendered the background mountain scenery a little darker but would have really made a difference in the overall scene. An 81A warming filter would have knocked down some of the bluish haze in the background also and made the mountains a little clearer without adding any real color to the scene. Very nice image. A winner for sure. James

-- james (james_mickelson@hotmail.com), May 21, 2000.

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