My World: Schliersee - seen from Hohenwaldeck

This was the view we had on a hike last Saturday. This is a leisure hike, only a 300m climb, easy to walk up there, but the view is rewarding.

Here it is:





Best regards,
Michael

Michael Nagel said:

This was the view we had on a hike last Saturday. This is a leisure hike, only a 300m climb, easy to walk up there, but the view is rewarding.

Here it is:

Schliersee - Herbst 2014 - Ver. 3​

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Michael,

It's a pleasure for have you hike for us to deliver this bucolic view. Thanks!

Part of the beauty resides in allowing the slow change in contrast to just gradually build up the dimensions of the scene. Most other of today's digital photographers would have delivered an immediately attention grabbing higher contrast and snappier presentation.

Would you be more brutal in processing an industrial scene?

Asher

Ah, thanks for sharing the view, Michael. I'll bet the air was fresh at 300m. I imagine the view will be considerably changed in the next two or three months.

Asher,

Asher Kelman said:

Part of the beauty resides in allowing the slow change in contrast to just gradually build up the dimensions of the scene. Most other of today's digital photographers would have delivered an immediately attention grabbing higher contrast and snappier presentation.

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Thanks. I play sometimes with different versions and this one is the one I prefer. A lot of PP might attract the view quickly, but will it stay for a while and return? I like this darker version and here is another one a little more heavy on PP.

Asher Kelman said:

Would you be more brutal in processing an industrial scene?

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It depends. Here is a picture I tweaked a little more, but this one in its softer impression is one I like too.

Best regards,
Michael

Tom

Tom Robbins said:

Ah, thanks for sharing the view, Michael. I'll bet the air was fresh at 300m. I imagine the view will be considerably changed in the next two or three months.

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Thanks. The actual altitude was close to 1000m as the lake is already at approx. 700m.
The white you can see on the mountain on the left side is snow.
The forest line is at approx. 1800m in this region.

Best regards,
Michael

Michael Nagel said:

Asher,


Thanks. I play sometimes with different versions and this one is the one I prefer. A lot of PP might attract the view quickly, but will it stay for a while and return? I like this darker version and here is another one a little more heavy on PP.


It depends. Here is a picture I tweaked a little more, but this one in its softer impression is one I like too.

Best regards,
Michael

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Michael, I'm glad I asked and that you shared that you explored but ended up giving a gentler version. The more pp presentation, however, is very impressive and might be chosen if this was for promoting a vacation or tour, where immediacy and recruitment is of the essence.

The examples of industrial photography are excellent. The first, of gears, is bitingly sharp and we have a sense of the precision and power of the construction. The most remarkable link is to the picture with an interesting foreground of equipment but then an intriguing mist laden b.g. that adds atmospherics of a major cinematographic masterpiece.

I can imagine a movie producer saying to his director, "Not that I want to tell you how to create, but look at Michael Nagel's picture of this industrial space. "If you can get this kind of atmosphere into the movie, then I can sell it!"

Asher

Michael, pretty area and think first you posted looks better then second version since it better covers up jet contrail. Maybe lighten darker ver where contrail is gone.
Check out my reflections at Table Rock. South Carolina has some beautiful mountain lake scenery.
Don

Asher,

Thanks. Views differ . making them more interesting

Besi regards,
Michae

Don,

Thanks. There are at least 8 jet contrails in every picture concerned, but I suppose you refer to the curved contrail.
I am quite happy having it not too pronounced as this is the strongest indicator that this picture was taken with a fisheye lens. Using the darker one and brighten it up a little is indeed an interesting idea.

I saw your reflections at Table Rock and I like the mist, which made the pictures different from many reflection pictures. Still: I was always tempted to look up and see the rock reflected directly in the second and the third one (the mist is less pronounced in the first one) and would have been happy to see it included.

Could this be a case for portrait-framed landscape pictures?

Best regards,
Michael