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I had to stop to take this photo (20)
Janice
![Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 3206 W: 225 N: 6900]](http://i1.treklens.com/misc/g-g-g.gif) (27355) | I just had to stop to take this photo.
My husband and I were on holiday down the South Island of NZ last month. It was autumn here in NZ and while the North Island had severe storms and floods that week, we celebrated such wonderful weather down south – a little cool but so refreshing and with lovely sunny, even hot, days… And we got to see some snow.
This is on the road between Lake Tekapo and Lake Pukaki, in the Mackenzie Basin, which is situated in the centre of New Zealand's South Island. It features mountains, lakes, rivers, beech forest remnants and rolling tussock country.
We were driving down this road on the way to visit Lake Pukaki and Mt Cook
when I saw this view from my rear-vision mirror and I just had to stop and take some photos.
The mist had arrived not long after we left Lake Tekapo and it was still there when we reached Lake Pukaki, about 40kms away. I liked how the trees were starting to disappear into the mist, and in the far distance you might just be able to see the start of the hills surrounding the tussock flat land of the Mackenzie Basin. |
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Janice
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Highlights and shadows
Edited by:tomek_wap
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Hi,
Just thought of a small experiment here.
Your original photo brings too much brightness to the eye.
Thought how to make it look better or different if that's what you rather call it ;-)
Added quite a lot of shadows and highlights.
Shadows to make the bright sky/view darker, and highlights to enhance the bottom part, and make all the other details more visible and recognizable.
Although the sky now looks very odd for a natural photograph, you could now call it a "gentle" painting.
Let me know what you think.
Tom |
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