Koppelpoort Photo | TrekEarth

Photographer’s Note

This is the "Koppelpoort".

The Koppelpoort is a medieval gate in the city wall of the Amersfoort, a town in the middle of the Netherlands. The Koppelpoort is contructed around 1425 and it is a combination of a land and water-gate.

The water on the foreground is called "Eem". If you don't have time to visit Amersfoort, look outsite the windows of the train, because the trains in Amersfoort pass along the Koppelpoort.

About the photo: I used a brigde as a stable stative. About the PP-work: I increased the contrasts a bit and I decreased the light somewhat. I made the photo smaller, but I decided not to sharpen the photo, because it became grainy. I didn't crop the photo, but maybe I should have rotated it a bit.

Tue, carper, PerR, Valerka, JoseMiguel, pat0500, Zelanda, syd1946, Silke, delic, jhm, linask, chrisnet, salvator, NellyD, Tort, ugur_yilmaz has marked this note useful

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Tue (25608) 2007-08-03 9:57

Hej Stefan,
Het weer en de weerspiegelingen werkten enorm mee om deze prachtige poort er extra aantrekkelijk op te kunnen zetten. De POV is goed, beter dan aan de andere kant, ook al had je dan die toren erbij. De kleuren zijn ook heerlijk! :-)
Groeten,
Lars

Valerka (8159) 2007-08-03 10:11

Wow, that's like in a fairy tale! A very nice shot.You've captured the castle reflection in the water, and it's great!
TFS
Valerka:)

JoseMiguel (860) 2007-08-03 10:21

Hi Stef,
A beautiful capture of this gate and its reflections on the water!
I like the way you managed to build the composition, so carefully done.
For me it's ok the no rotation, but always you resize you must apply some sharpening because the smaller image becomes a little soft automatically.
Well done and thanks for share it.
My best regards,
JM

pat0500 (21513) 2007-08-03 10:27

Hi Stef,
Very beautiful place for the beautiful shot, good light and colours, very pretty reflection on water..!
Very nice composition..!
Best regards,
Have a nice weekend.
Patrick

dhotnisky (230) 2007-08-03 10:27

This a nice photo. The POV is good and the colors are fantastic. Well done! TFS

mesutilgim (36906) 2007-08-03 10:57

Hello Stef,
Great capture, wonderfull compo, great reflectiond.
Very nice TE job done.
TFS and have a nice weekend
MESUT ILGIM

Yorkie (138) 2007-08-03 11:49

Beautiful composition and colour and a great subject. I think it would look better with a little sharpening .

Zelanda (5692) 2007-08-03 14:50

Hola Stef,
Bellísima foto con una preciosa arquitectura. Los colores y reflejos son magníficos. Excelente calidad de imagen.
Saludos cordiales
Ros

syd1946 (17913) 2007-08-03 15:12

Hello Stef,
Beautiful composition in high quality!Very well seen reflections on the water in a photo with a big architecture interesting.I like it a lot...

Have a nice weekend,
Thomas

Silke (3023) 2007-08-03 15:17

Yes, rotation would have been good, but I must say the depth of colour and the composition are excellent
Good notes too
TFS
silke

delic (6735) 2007-08-03 15:25

Hello Stefan,
This castle looks like the ones we see in fairy tales. Fine composition with a reflection and minimal sky. I like what you did with PP, and I do not see a need for rotation. Good one! Regards,
Hakan

izmirli (3211) 2007-08-03 17:51

merhaba stef
wonderful castle and wonderful reflections.beautiful naturel colours.
best regards.
gürkan akçakır.

jhm (82723) 2007-08-04 1:41

Dag Stef,

Dit zijn foto die mij niet onroerdlaten, door uw perfecte opstelling en de juiste hoek krijgen wij hier een wonder mooie foto.
Dit is werkelijk ver boven het gemiddelde niveau van TE.
Dit is gewoon mooi!
Bedankt voor uw bezoek.

Prettig weekend,
John.

feather (49868) 2007-08-04 3:44

It looks like a very interesting place to visit. The colours and reflections in particular are wonderful. It's probably the tiny bricks and the trees which make the sharpening difficult. It looks fine on my screen. Have you tried sharpening only certain parts of an image? For instance the sky should always be excluded from any sharpening as there is nothing in the sky that needs to be sharp, and it can results in increasing noise. I sharpen on a separate layer and then you can erase anything you don't want sharp. That also has the advantage of using the eraser on low opacity and having reduced sharpening of some areas. You can also make selections and just sharpen those.
Kath

Guenther (6853) 2007-08-04 5:20

Hi Stef,
a very beautiful view you caught in a good TE spirit. The slightly moved reflections add some liveliness to te scene.
I think the sharpness is ok...
TFS.

carper (65028) 2007-08-05 11:14

mooie poort Stef.
moet je nagaan dat ik hier familie heb wonen en deze poort niet eerder heb gezien, fraaie foto, goed fotowerk.
prettig weekend.
groet Jaap

chrisnet (20376) 2007-08-05 13:23

Hi Stef,
You have well captured the beautiful reflexion of this nice architecture, wonderful POV, light and colors, very well seen and done.
Regards
Christian

salvator (18819) 2007-08-07 0:33

Hi Stef,
Wonderful composition. The use of the light, the colors are superb, but above all the reflections are just wondeful.
Best regards. Salvator.

NellyD (1872) 2007-08-10 8:15

Hoi Stef,

Ik vind dit een hele mooie foto van de Koppelpoort. Zo te zien zeker eens een bezoekje waard. Ik hou erg van reflecties en deze is erg mooi. De kleuren en het standpunt van waaruit je de foto genomen hebt vind ik ook erg goed.

Groetjes, Nel

capthaddock (28640) 2007-08-10 13:44

Hi Stef - beautiful castle, and the reflections double the pleasure, I don't think rotation would help because it would make the tower at right lean further, the stretch funcion in photoshop would be a better tool in correcting the lens distortion, I wanted to try a WS but couldn't save it by right-clicking for some reason, I've been having some computer problems, maybe that's why.

Tort (2266) 2007-10-09 6:18

Hi Stef
A good capture of this interesting architecture with pleasing light and excellent colors. Wonderful reflects in the water. Very good sharpness.
Best regards
Juan Tort

ugur_yilmaz (984) 2007-10-09 6:46

Hello Stef,
It is perfect capture with higly saturated colors and sharpness. The composition is well done too.
Thanks
Ugur