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The Countess of Forchtenstein


The Countess of Forchtenstein
Photo Information
Copyright: Otto Rapp (TheMystic) Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 1115 W: 31 N: 1449] (5748)
Genre: People
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 1998-06
Categories: Friends/Family
Camera: Praktica MTL 5B, Pentacon auto 1,8/50 multi coating, Agfa Vista 200
Photo Version: Final Version, Original Version
Date Submitted: 2006-08-23 16:15
Viewed: 666
Points: 5
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
My wife Christan in front of the fortress castle of Forchtenstein, on her first trip with me to Austria.
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Eastern Austria is castle country, and the castle to beat all Austrian castles may be Burg Forchtenstein. The fortress, on the eastern slope of the Rosaliengebirge hills in Burgenland, overlooks the Hungarian plains from a position so invincible that the Turks failed to seize it during their invasions of 1529 and 1683. The original portion of Forchtenstein, which has walls up to 40 feet (12 meters) thick, was built in the 14th Century by the counts of Mattersdorf. The Esterházy family acquired Burg Forchstenstein in 1622 and gradually enlarged it, turning it into an armory that now forms the largest weapons collection in Central Europe.
An interesting aside: the portrait of Count Dracula which is most often shown in articles on him hangs at this location.
Forchtenstein is located southeast of Vienna, 13 miles (21 km) from Eisenstadt and 14 miles (23 km) from Wiener Neustadt.
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scan from paper, cropped from larger picture, clean imperfections in photoshop, resize
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Re-edited 2006-08-23: the original picture contained a major flaw: somehow between photoshop and upload, a distortion in the figures face happened which I've noticed too late only after opened in lens, a flaw that is not present on this 2nd version, which also uses a tighter crop. I hope this looks better to all visitors - Cheers Otto
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Hi Otto
I could almost believe it was the Countess! An amazing castle behind her, it's fantastic! Thanks for sharing
Rew

Lets start to be honest with each other Otto.. sharpness is not good here! We are in TL to learn..right? Look.. often a photo of paper on a scanner and you get your quality lost. (For 150 Euro we can buy a nice digital camera today...)

Do you have skill? Oh yes!!! Take this photo Otto, if we ignore the fact that it is not sharp.. the composition is very nice !! Your Castle in the background is a very good choice .. as if the Lady is a part of a romantic book-film-or Operette

So .. to conclude .. I hope I made you think and a big compliment for the very nice Lady and composition Your friend in Holland
John




My advice is : Stop scanning old photo's

Nice idea, nice Lady ( and agree with John. )
Take care
Rob

The typical remake of the medieval! :D The nature put her in the perfect setting to play that! I find john was some direct but it's true that there is a lot of details in many. I have the feeling you explore your family album and remix them with Photoshop and your paintings but as i saw your potential in photo i have the feeling that you could explore many other themes with success :) Simple curiosity?

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