NONZA Photo | TrekEarth

Photographer’s Note

This village is built with mountainside on the inhospitable West coast of the Corsica Cape and dominates the sea. The top of the genoese tower dominates the roofs of the houses. I let to you guess the impression of vacuum which the inhabitants of these houses can have (the end of apparent parapet is there to protect you from a fall on the superb one and great beach to 100 m lower! ;-)).
NONZA is already much known on TE. For what relates to me, I had already published a photo catch from this village which I had entitled " Sunset on the St. Florent Gulf".

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JEAN-NOEL (184) 2004-12-01 14:39

this is a great picture, even though it is a bit overexposed at the top left, the colours are good and the effect that the clouds on top right make is like a giant wave which will smash over the cliffside village. Very nice idea and composition, thanks for sharing.

Jean Noël

Homerhomer (4005) 2004-12-01 14:56

Pierre, this is an impressive landscape. I like your composition, with the concrete wall in the foreground, slope with greenery and the buildings as a main subject.
I see you have been faced with a difficult light. I would suggest using lower f stop to achieve more shapness accros the image. Also sky is overexposed, IMO the only way to avoid the overexposed sky in such a sitution is to have your camera on a tripod (or steady support like the wall we see in your picture) take one exposure for the sky and one for the shadows and blend them. I think also that the image may have been improved had you taken the shot a bit later with the sun lower and giving you a bit of back/side lighting creating debth and shadows on the buildings and the rocks, instead of completely backlit.
The back light also created (well the lense created it) the vignetting on the edges at the top, this can be corrected in post processing. I also see some halos between the see and the trees, not sure if this is a result of USM or shadow recovery, again you can correct it in post processing with some clonging, dodgind and burning.
Two thumbs up for the composition, but IMO the image can be improved in other areas.
Peter

alainh (35387) 2004-12-01 15:45

bonsoir Pierre,
une vue differente de Nonza la belle.
bel effet de vide et le petit parapet à gauche est bien vu.
le ciel en dit long sur la suite.
bien vu
amicalement
alain

Gollum (80) 2004-12-02 1:55

Comme le dit Alainh, c'est bien une photo prise sous un angle inhabituel.
Cela préfigure la route qui monte vers le nord et qui longe la cote: vertigineuse!

harold (2271) 2004-12-02 14:43

bravo Pierre une composition magnifique, un angle parfait bravo.

ma-tibou (4566) 2004-12-03 7:45

bonsoir Pierre Magnifique vue à flanc de montagne qui donne sur la mer, joli angle belle réalisation, bien vue.
amitié/ Martine.

waskahegan (0) 2004-12-04 18:10

J'aime celle ci particulierement, cet urbanisme simple et traditionel un temoignage du savoir faire local.

maphoto (8076) 2004-12-05 17:56

Un point de vu assez particulier, cette falaise qui mène sur l'eau est spectaculaire, un bon cadrage et une bonne netteté, bien vu pour l'originalité.

SylFondacci (4085) 2005-02-12 9:27

Superbe photo, Pierre !
Avec ce dénivelé incroyable ... Nonza est un endroit magnifique avec sa plage de galets verts. J'ai qqs photos dans mes archives !
En tout cas, bravo !
Sylvie