Sunset over Portalegre Photo

Photographer’s Note

Another one from the town where I was born and spent my teenage years. Not much to say about this one... I thought that the sky deserved a photo.

I think I like better the sky of the WS, which was shot from the same spot just a few seconds before, but I see now that I messed up a bit in the PP.

Link to all my posts of Portalegre: *

Location of the POV (latitude, longitude): 39.2935,-7.4248

tober, buscape, JanD, xuaxo, Emile, Jonas_Schmitt, feather, Docarmo, paura, COSTANTINO has marked this note useful

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denisn72 (6949) 2009-01-14 16:10

Hello José
A very charming sky! The clouds have a great shape and the colours are splendid. The exposure is perfect as well as the point of view you chose. I like the pointed mountain on the left. I agree with you, the sky is a bit better in the workshop. Good job!
Best regards
Denis!

tober (3938) 2009-01-14 16:18

Hi Jose, you know what attracted my attention in the photo? The reflection of the sunset colours on the solar panel. The sky is really wonderful. But the foreground and the hill on the right hand side deserve some amount of light.

Best regards, Tolga

ribeiroantonio (21823) 2009-01-14 16:35

O céu justifica a foto mas o primeiro plano está demasiado escuro. Fis um WS para mostrar que a imagem podia ser melhorada no Photoshop. Espero que gostes.
António

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buscape (3535) 2009-01-14 17:19

Hello Jose,
beautiful shot of this lovely sky.
I like the shades of orange and grey in this beautiful sky. The Foreground is a little bit dark, but it is still a very nice picture.
Best wishes,
Helmut

jimkilgallon (0) 2009-01-14 19:17

Ola José
Very moody sunset which I like very much. Superb cloud formations. The workshop 2 shows more detail but the blacks look broken up in that one so maybe 50% opacity of the shadows/highlights would be sufficient for this capture. The red tone however is perfect in the capture.
Regards
Jim

shevchenko (9854) 2009-01-14 19:28

Hello Jose,
Seem never make any editing to original photo with just resize it, very natural color and lighting to show dim environment at early night, you should be have different mood and feels to admire this city where this place recall your childhood memories, thanks for sharing.
Ally

sacavem (8211) 2009-01-15 2:51

Olá José,

"PLEASE DO NOT HESITATE IN WRITING NEGATIVE CRITICS!"

Amigo, esta foto e o poste com 92Kb não está ao teu nível, sorry:)
O céu justifica a foto mas o pp não ajudou(há dias assim).
Como o ficheiro é de 92Kb nem dá para fazer ws pois aparece muito grão.
Um abraço,
Filipe

lousat (15274) 2009-01-15 4:26

Hi Jose,your choice of the hour was unusual and really fantastic!!Not a usual sunset,the clouds have soft colors and seems paint,great great work,my best compliments,Luciano

JanD (14582) 2009-01-15 6:07

Howdy Jose!
Amazing sunset. Wonderful lightness and shadows, ideal contrast. Original picture.
Regards!

xuaxo (5683) 2009-01-15 6:18

Olá José,
O que eu diria já foi dito pelo António e seu WS. E também pelo Filipe:
"Amigo, esta foto e o poste com 92Kb não está ao teu nível".
Que eu me lembre deve ser a tua pior, pelo menos da era digital.
Cumprimentos,
F.

Emile (19869) 2009-01-15 6:30

Hola José.
Esta foto no me gusta mucho, hay mas cosas negativas que positivas, la positiva son los colores del atardecer en las nubes que se ven bien, la negativa es que en la parte anterior de tu foto esta muy oscura, se ven muy poco las casas que están en primer plano pero el valle y el resto no se ve casi nada, tiene muy poco kb, solo File Size 93 kb cuando puedes subir hasta 300 kb lo cual ayuda a una mejor calidad de la foto y evita un poco los ruidos. Me he atrevido a hacerte un WS solo tratando de ver como se vería mas clara.
Un fuerte abrazo mi amigo y muchos cariños a tu esposa y tu hijo.

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Jonas_Schmitt (3074) 2009-01-15 6:46

Hallo Jose!
Very nice picture, the light is impressive and I like the colors very much!
Jonas

feather (49858) 2009-01-15 7:27

The sky is fantastic. Usually when the sky is at this stage there isn't much light in the foreground, so the darkness doesn't really bother me too much. Both WSs done to lighten the fg are way too noisy, so I opt for the dark. You know as well as I do how you would normally deal with the wide dynamic range if you wanted the fg lighter! ;D
Kath

Docarmo (8814) 2009-01-15 22:53

Olá José,
Gostei muito deste céu e, já tendo lido tudo o que foi escrito por aqui, limito-me a dizer que tentei um WS mas não vale a pena publicar, pois está quase igual ao do António... só que minha versão ficou em torno de 250 kb... e não fez grande diferença, como disseste em algumas respostas. Interessante.
MCV

Bluejeans (31963) 2009-01-17 2:08 [Comment]

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Floydian (30970) 2009-01-17 8:49

Hi Jose,

I have seen already a lot of ws version, so i thought let's give it a try.
I'm not pretending it's a good one, therefor the image is just too small, but what i did in less than 10 min is how i would see it. But maybe you think different, which is okay by me. The image is just very inviting to work with because the foreground is the real bottleneck. Only hdr of ND gradient filter can help you out here. And because you did not did that the final result in your version is not that bad.
To my surprise there are wonderful details inside like colourful little flowers in those bushes in front...how nice ;-)

Regards,

Henk

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robiuk (10763) 2009-01-18 13:32

There's nothing wrong with the sky in this photo as opposed
to the one in the WS.
What I like here is the natural darkness of the foreground -
- you didn't make a mistake (like many here on TE would)
by doing an excessive editing to increase contrast and
bring more details in the darkish FG, but left it 'as it
is', so the charm of the original atmosphere is well
conveyed through your photo.
Saying that, there's just one thing I would fix during
aditing and that is that little tiny 'poke in the eye'
in a form of short white-ish diagonal line at the bottom
of the frame (on a roof) - not sure what that is, but
the photo would certainly benefit from its removal.
Cheers,
Robi

edytungkal (4519) 2009-01-19 0:08

I think all the sunset moments have some beautiful colours on the different taste and it curious me to open the workshop's ws by our friends and I'm agree with Henk there are some beautiful details on the foreground that we can enjoys this beautiful moment of sunset (as i said, sunsets are always beautiful). Thanks for showing this Jose :-)

daniel

paura (38176) 2009-01-24 3:44

José,
Lindíssima, amigo. Uma de suas mais belas fotografias aqui publicada. associada a sua reconhecida boa técnica, aqui o lado artístico está primoroso. Penso que uma possivel versão boa da foto também seria em se trazer um pouco mais de iluminação às casinhas brancas. Excelente!

Abraço

Paulo

danyy (68422) 2009-01-25 23:27

Une scène aux lumières assez dramatiques, on dirait une activité volcanique.
J'aime cette gestion des lumières qui tire vers la sous exposition.
Best regards.
Daniel.

COSTANTINO (22475) 2009-02-05 12:42

Hello Jose
What can I say for this wonderful photo?
fire on the sky..marvellous composition,
clouds into the sky,combination of colours and shapes,great inspiration of art...
regards and compliments
Costantino