raise your hands!, a photo from Serbia, North

Photographer's Note

this is my second upload of Drina river in Tara National Park.

to shoot from eye-level wouldn't give me the perspective I had in mind so after a rough check through the viewfinder I stretched the camera up above my head and keeping it as steady as possible I quickly shot 3 consecutive frames in shutter speeds 1/30, 1/8, 1/2 @f16 and ISO200.

the NEF files were imported to FDRTools for the initial HDR treatment and exported to Photoshop for the rest (car cleaning excluded)

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claudio74 (7263) 2008-06-18 13:17

Hello Kostas
Very impressive picture,colours are great and it's a good idea to include the red car...
A very nice composition
well done
regards
Claude

siggi (1419) 2008-06-18 13:25

Hello Kostas,
beauty photo, all is well done: sharpness, colours, tones, POV. bravo, very well done!
Regards,
Siggi

Prisley (1485) 2008-06-18 13:42

Hi Kostas,
I'm not quite sure I understand everything of the process, but i like the results here. The colors are gorgeous even if highly saturated. The distorsion give a good dynamic to the otherwise flat view. Maybe the electric post disturbs a little bit my eye as it breakes the harmony of the "circle distorsion".
Anyway it's an interesting one!
Cheers,
Pris.

velocista (897) 2008-06-18 14:18

ol�, very nice photo with great colors. i must confess that at first sight i thought it was a kind of painting. very good pov with the horizont line rounded although i think is a bit tilted to the left side. anyway, good colors and reflexes on the water. congratulations
pedro

Hunkar (7440) 2008-06-18 14:50

An excellent image with vivid colors..
Good details..

maglex (1980) 2008-06-18 15:04

Hi Kostas, your creativeness has created a fantastic shot. Well seen the colors of the day. Thanks for sharing...Alex

BWJ (3094) 2008-06-18 19:37

Hello Kostas,
You did a great job with the POV as well as the composition. Colors are vibrant and details sharp and clear.
Warm wishes,
Betty

mpetrovic (1536) 2008-06-19 2:31

what a perspective! I always keep telling myself some time soon i would have to start learning making fish-eye photos (got no lenses, so I guess some good filter in gimp/photoshop could do it). anyway, perspective is just awesome, one of the best I've ever seen so far, really!
Personally, I don't really like unnatural colors in this shot, so could you upload, under workshop section, this shot with more natural tones?
Anyhow, excellent work, already found the place into my favorites. Thanks!

marko