Retezat Mood by Zsolt Simay

What a magnificent photo, Zsolt.

It gives off a feeling of majestic grandness and a reminder about just how great nature is.

I think the composition works very well in this photo. The mixture of diagonal, horisontal, and to a lesser extent, vertical lines works very well. The photo is busy without it being problem. I'd rather say, that the photo being so busy, which is especially brought forth by the level of detail found in the textures and contrasts of the photo, only makes it stronger. No matter where one looks, there are new details to be found. This is the type of image I think would be very interesting to have hanging on ones wall, so that one can go up to it repeatedly and explore the details of it even further. The colours of are pleasing and warm, and the exposure is spot on.

It is, in a word, a great photo.

Magic light, and the incoming clouds are great. No need to repeat what Bo said, but I think "The photo is busy without it being problem" is as much spot-on as the exposure. There is a multitude of planes in the composition, but they come together really well. A very strong landscape.

Zsolt:
Congratulations on the POW. The photograph's strongest elements, in my opinion, are its composition and its subdued colors. Although at least one colleague would disagree, I think the photograph would have appeared overdone had the sky been bolder in appearance.
My best,
michael

Great light & low lying clouds. I also like the way the crest leads the eye from front to back. The landscape has a very good texture to it. A good DOF use as well. Congrats on POW. A very pretty scene

Perfect composition, excellent foreground subject, perfect amount of sky to finish the composition and those fluffy clouds on the top of the mountain, a cream on a cake. Excellent image as usual from you.
Cheers.
Bela

wonderful image, very well captured.
Rich.

The visual movement is all wrong. Check it out now.

The visual movement is all wrong. Check it out now.

To my eye, this photo has a left to right orientation. As I follow the ridgeline, I get the sense that the curve ends up going to the right, and for me that helps determines the orientation. In addition, the bulk of the image lies to the right of the ridge, and the elements on that side draw my eye in that direction. In countries that read from left to right, the photo as Zsolt has taken it would reflect that "natural" orientation. But even more importantly, the photo as Zsolt has depicted would be real; one could go to this spot and experience much of what Zsolt has experienced by being there. To some viewers (but not all), that aspect is even more important.

Stephen: I agree with most of the things you said. I won't argue with you on the issue of the visual movement, I'll just say this: I like it more flipped and not because I read from right to left, because I do not. Being 'real' is certainly an advantage and often is a necessity. That is the call of the art director or whoever is in charge of the post-production. I must say though that the picture is really good. I could go on telling why but it's already been said. One thing though.. At first I got lost in it a little, simply because it doesn't provide a real sense of scale. If there was something tangible the viewer could relate to it would certainly add to the 'realness' of the scene.