Swaen Nbr 1 Photo | TrekEarth

Photographer’s Note

The Swaen on the dyke of Nieuw Beijerland in South Holland. A round stone corn mill build in 1703.

Here is the the first reworked picture of serie of 12.
I have got excelent usefull critiques and the remark that it all was to small. Specially Torben gave me suggestions which I tried to use.

He remarked: "The light is very bold and the composition looks nice and clear but perhaps the light is a bit too much, at least in this small presentation."

Well I changed the levels and here it is again.

I you like you can have a look at the origional in the workshop.

The origional 12 small ones you can see here
Here are more Dutch Wind mills

PixelTerror, Fixfocus, HNIK, mathiasmag has marked this note useful

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amstel (2229) 2005-11-19 6:32

it's a nice one, looks like taken from a fairy tale!Good attempt!

fkk (1806) 2005-11-19 6:42

Merhaba Hendrik;
wonderfull composition, i like the photo
nice capture
good colors
well done

catman-fatih

teric (313) 2005-11-19 6:45

Hello,
Very intereting comositions of Dutch landscape.
I like the superb gree color of grass and colore of this dramatic sky.
Well done,
Regards,
Maciek

Vicky (1438) 2005-11-19 6:57

Hello Hendrik,
I really like the light, clarity and colours in this shot. It's taken from a very good vantage point to show the windmill, bridge, fence and sky which all sit perfectly together to make a marvellous composition. Well done. Best wishes, Vicky

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Gdouble (5245) 2005-11-19 7:00

Dag Hendrik,
Zeer mooi lanschap, met een zo typische zware hemel. Wat zijn die molens toch mooi.
Persoonlijk vind ik de grijze boord een beetje zwaar, maar het is maar een eigen mening en doet niets af van de schoonheid.
Guy

AiresSantos (41780) 2005-11-19 7:00

Fantastic shot, Hendrik.
Very well framed. I like the colors and the shadows.
The clouds give much beauty to this beautiful landscape.

Best Regards,
Aires dos Santos

PixelTerror (86038) 2005-11-19 7:03

Hi Hendrik,
Always lovely these windmill photos, and this one is no exception, the composition is top notch ib building the perspective to the well placed subject, I love the light on the scene and the dramatic dimension added by the clouds and the way the light plays on them. I'm just a bit surprised by the very green aspect of this view as in autumn I'd have expected some warmer hues, no a problem at all as being surprised is part of the TE enjoyment.
Thanks and have a nice week end,
Jean-Yves

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wanderer (21) 2005-11-19 7:39

Lovely shot! It's the sky that makes the picture for me (personally), and it gives a terrific shadow on the windmill- well done!

Fixfocus (9377) 2005-11-19 8:26

Goedemiddag Hendrik,
Your pp-work on this picture was succesful!
Excellent handling of the strong contrasts,
I also like the compo with the fence leading the eye to the mill.
Prettige weekend,
Hermann

onmax (837) 2005-11-19 8:55

Hola Hendrik, excelente composicion, imagen compleja, llena de colores, con buena aproximacion tonal y combinacion.
Buena luz ambiente, y sombras. Interesantes nubes y colores.
Buenas sombras y reflejos.
Felicitaciones.
Saludos desde Argentina.

ONMAX

Signal-Womb (11652) 2005-11-19 9:43

Great light and nice composition Hendik. Very nice work.

HNIK (1104) 2005-11-19 9:57

WOOW!
Great shot and great POV,very nice scenery and you worked so well,very nice shot,with nice colors with well sharpness,and very well composed,I like it,and well done,Hendrik
Best Wishes

gilbriones2002 (930) 2005-11-19 11:57

wonderful composition!

easybob (0) 2005-11-19 12:40

les couleurs sont magnifiques.

anesugur (16770) 2005-11-19 16:26

Hi Hendrik
Wonderful picture.
I like windmill pictures.
And I like this picture very much.
Thanks for sharing. Uğur

rbcy1974 (20742) 2005-11-19 17:49

Hi Hendrick,
Very nice picture it is like the coffe table book version of Holland, lovely greens which come out very well with the amazing ligh,
Very well done
Regards
Dnaiel

torben (3084) 2005-11-22 14:27

The clouds and the canal draw a bundle of dominating lines across the frame from the upper left corner. These lines are intersected by two major objects in the scene, strongest by the vertical mill by also significantly y the horizontal little bridge.

These two objects forms an orthogonal dark L-shape in the frame contrasting the very luminous diagonal shapes of sky, clouds and grass, they are even connected by the shadow of the mill.

The contrast in this scene is of course very strong and some of the highlights are burnt but I don't consider that a big problem, the patch of pure white in the upper left corner actually helps give the feeling of bright light here.

What I do have problems with is the green colour of the grass, it is so oversaturated that it almost looks like a caricature of postcard style, I don't know if the camera or you did this postprocessing but I find it disturbing I would prefer subtler hues of green.

So, after riding the high horse of image analysis for a while, let me step down and just say that it is a beautiful and enjoyable scene.

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Luciedls (164) 2006-02-07 7:52

Hendrik,
Ton pov est original. La courbe de la route se marie très bien avec le mouvement imaginé des ailes du moulin. La percée de lumière illumine un peu le moulin mais ajoute un éclairage bien particulier à la pelouse. Merci !

carper (64464) 2006-03-04 11:12

ik zag je voorbij komen.
Ik zal eens even kijken wat mijn vriend hendrik in zijn archief heeft staan. Nou deze is schitterend, prachtige compositie, goede kleuren. ik heb me vanmiddag zelf even vermaakt met het nemen van wat foto's op Kinderdijk. goed werk hier,
gr. jaap

jassy (1065) 2006-07-21 20:56

Hello Hendrik,
What a marvelous improvement. The colors really "pop" now, and there is much more detail (of the buildings, clouds, grass, all) shown. Very nice re-work, indeed!
Regards, Jackie

luiscar (3282) 2007-05-13 15:34

hola ninix, foto lograda con todo lo que debe reunir una exposicion;enfoque, regla de 1-3 y creatividad, felicidades desde Avila

Gierlinski (940) 2007-08-25 8:05

Hi Hendrik,
Very nice picture indeed. The windmill is well placed, I like the green of the grass too it makes it very fresh. The clouds are fascinating too, cumuluses, strato-cumuluses and some alto-stratuses as I can distinguish. Great composition of yours even thou the clouds in the upper left corner form a white spot.
Good composition, two big points for that.
I am only not sure about this frame.
Well done, thank you for sharing,
Kind regards
Michal

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Lilyana (10) 2007-10-17 7:34

hello!
This is a very nice photo!Well done!

mathiasmag (26) 2008-05-18 18:49

Nice picture, but it feels a little overdone. The grass is almost neon like and the grass outside the fence looks like it's sharpened enough to be almost metallic. I think this increased saturation may also have made the clouds lose some of it's natural detail. The trees are also looking hard, not sure if it is shadows or sharpening.

That is just my feelings of it, but the picture brought me in enough that I wanted to give the original picture a try in PS. I worked from the original posted in a workshop. I hope you like the result. The grass is very hard to control in this image and some areas are very light while others are a bit dark, so controlling the details while making it look natural when PP is done is a challenge.

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