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Maiden's tower


Maiden's tower
Photo Information
Copyright: Yalcin ser (ys2) Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 92 W: 0 N: 137] (3170)
Genre: Places
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2007-01-03
Categories: Architecture
Camera: Canon 350 D, Canon EF-S 10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 USM
Photo Version: Original Version
Date Submitted: 2007-01-09 17:28
Viewed: 1191
Favorites: 7 [view]
Points: 74
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
There are many legends about the construction of the tower its location. According to the most popular legend, a sultan had a much beloved daughter. One day, an oracle prophecised that she would die on her 18th birthday. The sultan, in an effort to thwart his daughter's early demise, had the tower build in the middle of the Bosphorus to protect his daughter until after her 18th birthday. The daughter was placed in the tower where she was frequently visited only by her father.

On the daughter's 18th birthday, the sultan brings a basket of fruit as a birthday gift. Upon inspecting the basket, a poisonous snake that had been hiding amongst the fruit bit her and the daughter dies, just as predicted.

Photo was arranged from 3 photo taken at -1,0,+1 Av by applying HDR technique.

ScottHale, shelbeesmom, saggitario, GlenC, c_rapp, zarish, celina, drum, evgenia, ixtanbul7, SunToucher, kayra, cezar62, rater, lgfoto, essanva has marked this note useful
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  • valdec Gold Star Critiquer [C: 50 W: 0 N: 2] (2946)
  • [2007-01-09 17:35]

wow, piêkne czarodziejskie zdjeciie, doskona³a kompozycja barwa, pozdrawiam

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  • sleger Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 564 W: 57 N: 181] (3549)
  • [2007-01-09 17:38]

Merhaba Yalcin

Very dramatic picture. I like the contrast and the lighting. The composition is great.

Allahaismarladik

Sylvain

Yalcin,
Wow, what a stunning image!
Perfect POV. The composition is truely amazing. This photo subjects slant towards the center, which is nice because it keeps me looking further into it. Very well done,
Scott

This is a fantastic image!

How did you get the colours so great???

Very interesting note
Thank you for sharing.
bye Aga

  • Great 
  • GlenC Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 142 W: 2 N: 99] (787)
  • [2007-01-09 20:09]

Excellent PoV Yalcin. Nice colors and composition. Thanks for a good note. TFS,

Glen

Great colors Yalcin! Amazing shot considering you bracketed your shots and applied HDR with the boat on the water perfectly still.

Beautiful color and detail with very nice composition.

TFS,
David

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  • kojak Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 161 W: 0 N: 72] (666)
  • [2007-01-09 21:17]

Beautiful scenery, great POV and details. Masterpiece ;)
Geert

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  • c_rapp Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 955 W: 20 N: 1282] (7282)
  • [2007-01-09 21:32]

WOW! Great picture! Cool story kind of a combo of Sleeping Beauty and Rapunzel. The picture is beautiful. TFS
Christan

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  • ZorroII Gold Star Critiquer [C: 399 W: 0 N: 0] (0)
  • [2007-01-09 21:36]

Fabulous!

Cheers!

Ben.

wow! so unreal! fantastic job. well done.

Extraordinary photograph with wonderful depth of field. I like the fact you took 3 photos & compiled this piece of art.
Fantastic! Julie

Hi Yalcin,

This is my favorite portrait.
very good in all aspect, colors, contras, sharp, compo, POV and DOV. superb omage.
its like painting. detail and focus are perfect.
tfs

Haldian

its one of the best pictures of the last weeks i think
i really like the POV and u used an exellent HDR technique

TFS
Marco

Really deserve points.

Can you please explain the HDR Technology?

regards,
Jamshaid

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  • karn Silver Star Critiquer [C: 27 W: 0 N: 8] (620)
  • [2007-01-10 1:54]

Hi Yalcin
Very beautiful Yalcin cloud on the sky and reflect on the water created this picture like a painting.
Regards,Karn

A beautiful story and an even more beautfiul image Yalcin. Its almost as poetic and romantic as the story it tells. The colours and shades of the water, boats and rocks is amazing. Great pov and dof. Overall a superb composition. Regards. aadil

Attractive, with a bit strange colors.

Regards Darko

Hi Yalcin,
The dramatic cloud formation and the water reflections zoom the viewer straight into the image. That was my first and lasting impression of this astonishing harbour view.
Best wishes,
Celina

Wow! Excellent HDR photo! Very good POV and details! TFS
Allan

:) later

Harika bir açı, pp çok etkileyici.. tekneye bağlı halat izleyeni fotoğrafın içine çekiyor, tebrikler Yalçın

aK

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  • drum Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor [C: 119 W: 45 N: 22] (625)
  • [2007-01-10 5:12]

justa a great landscape photo
TfS

regards

Hello, Yalcin,
I am not familiar with HDR technique, and I don't know if this effect comes from it, but here I see an unique and picturesque image. The colours of the sky and its reflection in the water are so mild, the image is well composed, and I like the point of view showing how the boat is tied to the key.
Regards, Evgenia

Bu açıdan harika görünüyor. ELine sağlık. Derinlik müthiş...

Hi Yalcin,
Wonderful work on the HRD. It gave the entire composition a very interesting look. The composition is also very beautiful. I've seen this tower in many shots, but never from this great POV. I am a bit surprised about the blurry edges of this photo. I knew that this lens had some problems in the corner, but never this big.
TFS,
Niek

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  • kayra Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 381 W: 37 N: 112] (3121)
  • [2007-01-10 7:29]

Sanki Istanbul disinda baska bir dunya gibi burasi, nefis bir calisma, ellerinize saglik..

Hi!
Very good shot.very good work and very good note.
Cheers.
Cezar

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  • rater Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor [C: 201 W: 52 N: 111] (957)
  • [2007-01-10 8:42]

Good POV and composition. The ultra wide objective gives a very dramatic sensation. Well done.

TFS

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  • sedat Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor [C: 63 W: 94 N: 7] (784)
  • [2007-01-10 13:32]

k u s u r s u z

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  • lgfoto Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 210 W: 66 N: 252] (2190)
  • [2007-01-10 14:25]

Yalcin, what a beautifull composition.Great angle and finishing.Congratulation.

Out of this world! FABULOUS photo! love your pp work on this! THE DOF is fantastic! Love it all!
B-)
Linda
pt

Merhaba Yalçın
Çok güzel ya. Eline sağlık. Bugün birçok tekne ve kayık fotoğrafı gördüm. Bu da bir harika. Tebrikler.

Kerem

  • Great 
  • melik Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 120 W: 13 N: 52] (1538)
  • [2007-01-12 4:56]

Yalcin, harika bir goruntu yakalamissin. Yanilmiyorsam buna benzer bir calisman daha vardi. Ömer

Hi Yalcin

You have a splendid series of Maiden's tower photos..

Some irrealistic colors, are so beautiful..I can stay and look at this photo for a minute ..and wonder of this super clear water
I think is a very interesting technique of taking pictures..

Best regards,
Sandu

wow, great composition and wonderfull colors, i am impressed by your angle of view

fero

Very nice image. I truly like the effect of this HDR technique. Well done.

Very very well done great photo

Hi Yalcin; great pov in this shot! amaizing colours;
thanks for the legend also!
V.

Excellent! beautiful water and sky! sad story! nice scene!

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