Windmills in Holland

[peterst6906]

Fron Kinderdijk (World Heritage site):

http://www.photocamel.com/gallery/data/1343/Nik4_Land_Kind-98.jpg

C&C welcome.

Regards,

Peter

[Darvidanoar]

Stunning photograph.

Looks so peaceful there.

[Carrot]

Gorgeous photo - love how clear and precise the reflections are. :)

[peterst6906]

Stunning photograph.

Looks so peaceful there.

Thanks.

It is peaceful except for the tourism. The mills (there are 19 in total) are still operating, so it's nice here around sunset when the blades are turning. Slow shutter speeds make for some nice motion blur which adds a good dynamic to the images.

Regards,

Peter

[bushanwater]

WOW!! That's alll I can say.

[cazzaritch]

Fantastic. I love everything about it, the repetition of the windmills, the duck in the foreground, the birds in the sky, the reflections and ripples in the water.

Time would have to stand still for about 20 minutes for me to get a shot like that - its just brilliant.

[peterst6906]

Thanks everyone.

Regards,

Peter

[Dragonfly..shotz]

Well done Peter, it is an oustanding photo, beautiful clour and great subject and clear!! Wow!

[LesleyAnn]

I love Holland and I love this photo

[jurujoh]

That is a lovely photo!

Jules

[Stolsham]

Love this photo - it really captured me.

Complete amateur photographer here, so please excuse the ignorance.

Hope much photo editing is involved here?

Sharon

[peterst6906]

Love this photo - it really captured me.

Complete amateur photographer here, so please excuse the ignorance.

Hope much photo editing is involved here?

Sharon

I try to keep all editing on images to less than 5 minutes and mostly my workflow allows me to process about 80% of my work in under a minute each.

This one was a little longer because I wanted to clean up some of the water by cloning out some leaves and other minor distractions.

So this was about 10 minutes of processing for this image and most of that involved the cloning.

Other then that, the basic editing is really little more than adjusting the tone globally, increasing contract and saturation and then a little bit of dodging and burning. I sharpen in 3 stages, so sharpening was done straight after the global tone adjustments, then after the contrast and saturation enhancements and finally, right before output.

Regards,

Peter

[Helen]

Stunning photograph, Peter. Not only would this suit a large frame, but tourism operators I'm sure would be impressed.

The mother country is on my list of places to visit in the not too distant future along with Scotland and after New Zealand. :)

[kahkityoong]

Nice painterly photo & colour palette. I presume the flying birds were a composite as they are not reflected in the area one would expect.

[trials2k]

i like this shot! its very " artistic" and "perfect" which i like :)

but yea kakityoong has a point lol, no reflection for the birds in the sky..

[peterst6906]

but yea kakityoong has a point lol, no reflection for the birds in the sky..

I know, but the reflection of the birds didn't look any good in the water because it was partly intersecting with the ripples, so I removed it. It looks much better cleaned up than with the reflection still there.

Regards,

Peter

[trials2k]

that maybe true, but a photographer with a keen eye will pick it up, and then it will look more un-natural than wat u were trying for.

i didnt pick it up until kahkityoong did. . but yea, its a great shot either way i think :)

[peterst6906]

that maybe true, but a photographer with a keen eye will pick it up, and then it will look more un-natural than wat u were trying for.

Thanks trails. Interesting comment and I agree. I guess that's part of the creative aspect of photography that helps make it more than just a technical exercise controlled by the camera.

Some will like it one way, some will like it the other. We can't please everyone with all our creative decisions, but hopefully the majority of people like the decisions we do make.

Regards,

Peter