Piotr Czechowski Photography

Hi Piotr,you have some nice scottish landscapes here,all places i have visited myself,i have some similar pics in my portfolio.you have captured the mood of the highlands well.well done Cheers Duncan

Marvellous scottish landscapes! You talent for capture the magic of these lands is undeniable.

Excellent collection of images you've assembled. I'm very interested in seeing more of your work. - Sean

romance of legendary scottish landscapes portrayed in perfect light, splendid color & finest hour of glory. i'm impressed by ur study of landscape, its changing moods & a powerful composition & very strong sense of color. regards!

Echo above, your images have excellent light, color and composition. Awesome works you have here.

You've got a great portfolio. I otfen dream to visit Scotland, your shots speak about a dream land. Complimenti, bravo!!!

piekne impresje, tez mam 20-tke. Powiedz mi czy nie miales wrazenia ze zdjeca sa miekkie - tak jakby prosily sie o wyostrzenie?

Stunning photos! Great composition & light & detail & sharpness & atmosphere.

The pictures are amazing! they have such depth and beuty! Pienkne zdiencia!!!

Lovely portfolio - really nice pics from Scotland! Thanks for sharing!

As a Scotsman and budding beginner photographer, all I can say is WOW!

Brilliant pictures of a brilliant country... keep up the good work!!

Hi! thank you for sharing these wonderful landscapeS.. I love scotland! ciau ;)

Magnificent, landscapes have always seemed to escape me but yours are simply magnificent.

Ira

This is a stunning photo. I love your use of color and light to capture the texture and essence of Scotland's landscape. May I ask what lens you used for this photography?

Regards, Heather

Heather - if you click on "Details" option you'll see the technical specifications. Best regards - Piotr.

A stunning collection. Scotland has a reputation for being cold and grey, but you've captured the rugged beauty of it with an artist's eye. It's beautiful, colourful and amazing. Thanks for sharing. - Tonia

I am proud that I can add comment under your stunning portfolio. Quality is better than quantity and you use this sentence. Wish you more great photos from Scotland

You definately live in a very photogenic country!! I see that you use the Canon 20D. I use the Canon XT and when i go shoot in dramatic light, i never get the quality and color detail that you are, could you answer that question for me? Thanks, and amazing work.

Hi Victor

The final quality depends mostly on the lens/filters you use. I don't know what kind of a equipment you're using so I can't help you with that.

It is very important to expose the shot correctly (check the histogram to avoid shadow/highlight clipping). ND Grad filters are very useful in many situations or if you prefer you can take several different exposures of the same shot and merge them as a HDR image.

Regards - Piotr

I love your landscapes, mastered to perfection. Congratulation!

Swietne fotki, szeroki kot + super kolory. Pozdrawiam

Inspiring portfolio for your great work and the land you have captured.

Your's is one of the very best portfolios on this site. Very well done sir, I continue to be in awe upload after upload.

Bravo, maestro!

Piotr, you have many beautiful landscape shots here they are pleasure to view. Rich.

What lovely, sweeping landscapes! It makes me want to visit Scotland. You have a very unique, stylized shot such that I see links between each example, and know with which angles you like to work. Keep up the great work! Cheers, -O

What beautiful gallery, I very like your vision on landscapes.

Alex

Very inspirational. Thank you for pointing me to them!

G'day there Piotr, you have a superb Gallery of awesome landscapes. Very inspirational and makes me want to travel to Scotland to visit some of these locations..well done..regards, Rob.

Scotland really looks fantastic through you lense. Great collection of remakable landscapes. I enjoyed my visit :)

I lived in England for a year and bought my first camera there. I drove to the highlands for a long weekend and took nothing buy panormic shot of the hebridges, moors, highlands, etc. What a beautiful isolated space it is. Your photos are much better than mine, but they inspire me to practice and get back there! Cheers!

Piotr , must say it has given me much pleasure going through your portfolio.........some very nice work indeed! keep it up

roger

Some lovely work here Piotr. Thanks for your comment on the storm light shot - if it's of any interest I've posted the panoramic version. Cheers, Michael.

Piotr, I'm still trying to find a 'style' of my own, but if I veer towards proper land/seascape stuff..
...I know now well and truly what standards I should aspire too!
Will return here for more viewings ~ Mike

You have the BEST shots I have ever seen from Scotland. Congratulations!

I am very happy to have discoverd you and your photographs. I think they are excellent. Congrats.

Nice work Piotr!

Thank you for your considered comments which I really appreciate on my Yukon River image. Am removing tne image to try & improve it. Sorry I can't change the viewpoint as it would entail a 10000 km. drive but will see what else I can do. You have a wonderful portfolio & enjoy examing your images. Thanks again. Best regards Ross

There are some really impressive images in this portfolio. It is obvious you have worked extremely hard to get these images. To achieve this light is something that one has to fight for and have unlimited patience. Hard work, but nethertheless it has paid off. You capture the mood well and the Scottish landscape really suits your style. Many of my favourites are in square or vertical format, they ahve a very good composition. Mountain of fate being a particular fav and 'the lost world' among others. You are very strong on your foreground use.. have you seen a lot of Joe Cornish's images .. he has a particulalry strong foregound style. see his Elgol image. Ones that don't work for me as well ( this is relative remember) .. 'mirror mountain'.. 'Rannoch moor' and all these are in landscape format..I notice a trend here. These iamges have such a strong feeling to them. I was wondering if you might like to get into Large format photography.. there are courses run by 'light and land' where they provide the equipment .. maybe something for the future.. I think it would suit you very well and the high quality images, tonal values and clarity is superb.

there is another point to consider, about how much you want to bend the boundaries of reality. The sky is always brighter ( well most of the time) than the sky and when you see the sky stopped down too much it does look dramatic but many not true too life.. this is a very contentious area and i won't argue either way.. I have had experience of meeting some Large format users who object to this kind of image manipulation. They use grads but to a more subtle effect. I would always bear in your mind how the image loked to you when you made it so that you can be truthful to the scene (depending if that is what you want). I have tended to err on a more damtic sky and then been brow beaten for the over manipulation by some real landscape purists. I usually go for the middle ground. I would be careful about pushing it to far and using photo.net's grades as a metre of the quality of your images as I am afraid that kitch images seem to be ranked the highest and overmanipulated ones score too highly for their real 'worth'. I think P.N is almost becoming illustrative in style. Mountain of fate is a case in point. this has been marked 5.33 aesthetic aveage but is a superb image . The diamond shape of the composition is really wonderful and an original take on this beautiful mountain, it stands head and shoulders above most landscapes I have seen posted. This could be one of your statement pieces. barmy!

How many of the images do you manage to get into print.. Some of these are very saleable. had any luck?

Anyway ..lovely, I shall be stopping by again Jane

Hi Piotr Thanks for the advise and your time, if I ever get back to the Rockies I will give it a go. Great work above, very impressive.

Piotr, great portfolio. Your landscapes are spectacular.

Greetings.

Great work on the landscapes. Nice DOF on all of them. Thanks for your kind words on one of my pictures. Noted all the points, will repost the 2nd shot sometime!

Amazing landscape portfolio, great job !

An excellent portfolio, Piotr. Thanks for sharing these images. Your photos are exquisite, with perfect mood and lighting. And a vast source of inspiration and education.

Rastislav

You are really talented for landscape photography. Your portfolio in PHOTO.net is amazing. Thanks for the pleasure seing your work.

of a Great Country. Both you, with your digital images, and Ian Cameron with his 6x7, should be listed as Scotland's National Treasures. Regards.

Wonderful gallery, Piotr. Congratulations.

Looking your photos, i want to return to sacotland again.

You have one of the most beatyful portefolios i have seen in a long time. I spent some time in Scotland this summer and it truely is a fantastic country, and you show it so well in your pictures. Cheers Charlotte

"It is rare for a set of pictures to create such a stir at AP, especially when the subject is as old as the Scottish hills. Piotr Czechowski's landscape images turned so many heads in the London office that I headed to Glasgow to discover more about this man of the mountains. ~ Bob Aylott.

I think this says it all! It is also more of an in-depth intereview than I have recently seen in this magazine. Congratulations! ..(and thanks for all those tips!) ;-)
You do photo.net proud too! Best wishes ~ Mike

Jak fajnie spotkać tu osobe ze swojego kraju:) Bardzo fajne foty u Ciebie widze:) Widac sporo wysiłku ale efekty naprawde bardzo dobre - tak trzymaj, zobacz przy okazji do mnie, pozdr

thanks for commenting my HDR pictures. You are totally right with your comments, and I will try to improve this points... Thanks... Best wishes Andreas

Thanks for your in depth comments on my "Garden of the Gods III". You are so right about the different monitors and I'm sure that a lot of the viewers are not seeing all that the image has to offer. I'm sure you face the same problems but we can only hope that enough of the viewers have monitors capable of appreciating the full values of the images that we have presented for there viewing pleasure. My latest photographic endeavors have been with my Cannon 20D and I have yet to experiment with HDR but that's in the near future. The possibilities are endless with Photoshop and and digital and I'm looking forward to exploring everything that's available to me. Thanks again for your comments they mean a lot to me as I think your work is both creative and a a viewing feast. Leo

Piotr, I just found your portfolio today. I very much enjoyed viewing your landscapes and seascapes from Scotland. Outstanding work.

Beautiful colecc�n of landscapes, in which one observes your good pleasure and well to know how to make. Greetings

Witaj! Tak to ten sam genghiskhan:) kiedys z Tweak.pl a teraz z forum PurePC:)

Great stuff, Piotr! Thanks for taking the time for commenting on my Mt. Rainier shot. After viewing your stuff, I take it as quite a compliment! I remember you commenting on the beautiful location. Scotland is beautiful as well, with a wide variety of superlative landscapes and seascapes. The weather conditions in Scotland and the Pacific Northwest are similar as well, rainy and relatively mild for such northerly locations. Those conditions frequently produce dramatic cloudscapes and lighting conditions which make for inspiring photos! Regards, Joe

amazing photos.. i love them all.. makes you appreciate GOD's creations.. you inspire me to become a photographer...

Thank you for taking the time give constructive critique of my photo - I really appreciate it. You have a stunning and inspiring portfolio. Thank you for sharing.

Cheers, Catherine

Really I've fallen in love with your portfolio as I fell in love with Scotland aswell. Congrats and keep posting so inspiring landscapes. Regards, Marina.

piekne pf regis, pozdr.

Great Photo Gallery Thanks foe share

Thank you your comment and advice with the rating on my photo of St mary's lighthouse at Sunrise. I have looked at your portfolio and you have a wide range of great photos and look forward to seeing more. Best regards Mary.

Hello, Piotr, you have a wonderful portfolio here. Your landscapes are amazing and providing a big source of inspiration for a beginner like me. Thank you for sharing these masterpieces. Best regards Milena

Witaj Piotr,

Niesamowite portfolio. Ile razy zagladam, tyle razy jestem pod duzym wrazeniem. Przepiekne pejzaze okraszone malowniczymi, wywazonymi kolorami. Wszystko swietnie ujete. Zroznicowane tekstury, interesujaca perspektywa laczaca przepiekne niebo (zazdroszcze niektorych ujec nieba z chmurami) z woda i ziemia. W Twoim przypadku bardzo podoba mi sie ujednolicona tematyka w ktora wkladasz sporo wysilku i cirpliwosci. Dziekuje za krytyke i porady. napewno zawitam tu niejednokrotnie. Pozdrawiam.

Witam

Przegladam to portfolio juz ktorys raz z kolei i za kazdym razem mozna odkryc tam cos nowego . Sposob w jaki postrzegasz a zarazem odwzorowujesz otaczajaca nas przestrzen i wszystko co zostalo w niej stworzone jest przecudowny . Do tego znakomity warsztat jaki prezentujesz . Wszystko to razem sprawia ze twoje zdjecia sa po prostu d o s k o n a l e . Gratuluje .

Pozdrawiam Mirek Konior

Hello, Piotr, your wonderful photo Great Escape in today's Critique forum took me to your portfolio. You have masterpiece landscapes here, all of them with well designed composition and in an excellent technical quality. I will be looking forward to more postings. Best regards Milena

Your porfolio is fantastic. I've done a great walk here...thanks for sharing. Pascal

You have taken me on a trip to a fantastic land that I've always wanted to visit....I can smell the air and feel the breeze as well as see the terrain! You have a great talent. I particularly like the vertical landscapes as most you see are in horizontal position. Superb!!!!

Fantastic portfolio.

Great portfolio you have a great selection of landscape images.

I have read on another post you are moving to S.Yorkshire, don,t think you will find it as scenic as Scotland but there is still much to photograph (where are you moving to ?) anyway keep up the good work.

Regards Terry.

Hi Piotr,

I've just stumbled across your portfolio and I am so glad I did! It is magnificent! I believe it is one of the outstanding landscape portfolios on here!

Brilliant work!

Cheers

Ro

SPECTACULAR!!!!!

Urzekajace portfolio. Wspaniale fotografie wspanialych miejsc. Bez watpienia bede do niego wracal. Pozdrawiam.

Great collection. You have captured a very soothing aspect in all of your work. Very enjoyable to view over and over.

Great landscapes. Everyone shows the special eye you have. I know that every place exist, but as you present us is as your being looks. Thanks for sharing. All the best to you.

Nice to meet you ! ;-)

CONGRATULATIONS!

Its not easy to dedicate photography to one subject. This is a profile the demonstrates dedication and expertise about photography in this way. Is not common this days to find an extensive dedicated portfolio and I'm gladly adding this photographer to my list of "interesting people"

Stunned and speechless after going through your beautiful portfolio.

Amazing use of light and natural scenery.

Thank you for visual journey.

Isabelle

You have great portfolio here, lots of beautiful photos.. Regards. Mariusz