Piatra Craiului in the fall (1)

[Bogdan Coltea]

Hello
I've spent a wonderful afternoon in a remote meadow, west of these beautiful mountains.
This is a HDR file obtained from 3 separate images for correct exposure on all planes.
Hope you like it. C&C welcome

http://img387.imageshack.us/img387/9127/poienitatamas3.jpg (http://img387.imageshack.us/i/poienitatamas3.jpg/)

18mm, f/22, ISO200

[Harold Davis]

this is way cool for me!! i like the shrooms. only thing i might suggest is a little more room right and left. and i just wonder if you could bring out some more contrast/saturation in that middle peak? nice job!!

i just saw that this was HDR. great job!! i didnt even notice it.

[Ed Vatza]

I really like the layers here starting with the grassy foreground with the mushrooms, the tree line, the colorful peak, the snow-covered peaks and ending with the sky. They just keep pulling me deeper and deeper into the image.

[Roman Kurywczak]

Hi Bogdan,
very nice HDR work. I like the angle here and the placement of the 3 mushrooms. Did you try this from a lsightly higher angle also???....gettting the tops of the mushrooms? It would be interesting for comparison but my bet is that this is the stronger presentation.
Very nicely done!

[Bogdan Coltea]

Thank you all very much.
@ Ed
The mountains are not covered (yet) by snow. They're limestone and glow quite a bit in late afternoon - deceivingly white I'd say.


@ Roman
I did several compositions of this scene, one of them being ~6 inches higher.
The mushrooms look better, but I could not include the entire scene in the frame.
My lens is limited to 18mm and cropped the entire sky out.
Looking back, though, I should have tried a vertical stitch.

[Robert Amoruso]

THe vertical stitch is a good idea Bogdan. A well executed image. I really like this as you used the FG, middle ground and BG very effectively here to add different layers of information to the image that draws the viewer in.