Lago di Tramonti Photo

Photographer’s Note

The Meduna river valley, called Valle di Tramonti (sunset valley) is one of the biggest in this region. It is an ancient water course, which, due to its morphology has been used to build the artificial lake of Redona (Diga di Redona/Tramonti), the very small town to the right.
There are roads on both sides of this elongated lake, which lead to many picturesque and quiet locations and towns, aswell as to other, higher located artificial lakes (Lago di Selva, Lago del Ciul). The road to the right of the picture leads on till you get to the Passo del Rest (mountain pass) from which you can travel further on to the beautiful region of Carnia.
Coming back at sunset time from a mtb-ride I saw this wonderful moment of quiet waters AND beautiful light and couldn't resist getting off the bike and taking this shot facing NNE.

Difficult contrasts prompted me to bracket exposition and so I worked on three DNG files with FDRTools and RawTherapee.

Thanks, René

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lestans (15436) 2009-10-03 10:40

Ciao Renè!
Era da un po' che aspettavo qualche foto tua, ed eccola qua!!
Il riflesso sul lago calmo è spettacolare, come anche i verdi nella collina sulla destra; invece non mi piace tanto il cielo che non si stacca e risulta un po' grigio, senza luminosità intendo dire.
Ciao!!

Livia

Clementi (43313) 2009-10-03 13:28

Ciao Rene'
ben ritrovato con questa bella cartolina, che sembra d'epoca forse a causa di questo cielo particolare, comunque mi piace
Giorgio

Silvio1953 (41199) 2009-10-03 14:01

Ciao Rene, non so cosa gli hai combinato in PP, ma l'effetto è favoloso, splendidi riflessi e magnifici colori, bravo, ciao Silvio

daddo (11275) 2009-10-17 1:08

HI rene. this is a superb photo. Looks like an old postcard that I might find in a collectibles fair, something from the early 20th century. whatever you did to the image it has produced a marvel. Such richness in tones and light. My compliments. Klaudio.

Bea123 (28) 2009-10-27 8:24

Hallo René

Super tolles Bild hast Du da "geknipst" ;-)
Ich bin echt begeistert, dieser Kontrast. Als währe das Bild nicht Fotografiert sondern gemalt worden. Auf meinem Bildschirm wirkten die weiß-Töne fast etwas Sepiafarbig, sieht toll aus.

Sei herzlichst gegrüßt und ich wünsche Dir weiterhin so ein gutes Auge für diese tollen Bilder.

Deine
Bea