The Bridge of Tallorno

That's some really fine shot and great location. The weather is like in November indeed - no wonder, as Italy isn't too far from rainy Austria ... :)

rich color and nice composition. the fog is definitely helping here.

Evidently cars were very narrow in the 15th century.

But they must have made things fairly well since our bridges seem to last only 50 years or so.

Beautiful image Paolo. The fog lends a good atmosphere to this.

Another great mood-setting shot Paolo. You did a wonderful job lightening the bridge and foreground foliage to catch the eye and balance it against the waterfall. Again, I feel invited into the frame.

David M. Cobb

I know you composed it this way to get the waterfall in the top left corner, but I think it might have been better to have photo from a position more to the right. This would better emphasize the bridge. Might be an angle that you could shoot from below and placethat second waterfall under the bridge. You had great light and the bridge is a very interesting one.

Kent in SD

This is a beautiful image Paolo, and perfectly executed. Everything about this is a joy.

Stunning beauty, Paolo,exelent work! the perfect saturation of the colors strikes me in all your work,i wonder if you could give a tip how you come to this magnificent result ?!
This is deffinatly one of my favourites and very hard to beate !!

What mood and beauty, Paolo. Superb!

This is great, Paolo. I really like how the stream meanders from the top left corner and through the bridge, tying the elements together. Also, great misty mood captured here. I really like your work.

Fantastic fogs, lights and mood. Great image!

An exceptionally artistic image. Very well done.

This positively drips with atmosphere. Well done.

Excellent capture of the beautiful mood. Great composition with the trail leading into the photograph. Overall, well done.

Thanks all for your comments, friend, I'm pleased you like this picture.

Etienne, there are many ways to enhance colours, though first of all it's important to set the correct white balance when on the field. I usually make some WB test before I start composing the picture. I initially try with the automatic WB set by the camera. If it's ok, I go further. But as this doesn't happen often, I normally manually set the WB to a temperature setting that satisfy my eye when looking at the picture on the camera display.
Then, when I process the picture on my PC, I use a range of tools in PS CS3 that are very helpful for colours fine tuning. The sponge is useful for selected areas, the median eyedropper of th curves tool lets you select the average grey, setting the entire tonal range of the picture by consequence. Another very nice tool in PS is "Match colours". This tool compress in some way the tonal range of the image, thus pushing up the saturation. All this tools can be used of course on the entire image or, even better, only on selected areas. For example in this image I enhanced the saturation of the foreground by selecting that area with the lazo and then applying the "match colours" tool by 110 of luminance and 120 of colour intensity.

There are really so many ways to manage colours in PS, and this space is simply inadequate to list them all. I suggest you to try yourself all the tools PS gives you, thus learning by experience what's the best workflow for you.

Cheers,
Paolo

Wow!! Beautiful shot! Congrats on the EP!!

Awesome photo showing that, when the weather seems dreary and the hand of man is faded, the earth is still very much alive.

Fantastic image all the way around, Paolo! Congrats on the EP!

Hi Paola,

Very moody, nice sense of depth - well done. I notice that my eyes are sort of torn between following the road into the background and traveling over to the waterfalls. No value judgment associated with this - just an observation. I imagine this would make a gorgeous print.

Thanks for sharing this excellent image...cheers...

Brad

A great shot as thick with atmosphere as you could ask for. The colours are wonderfully rich and vibrant and the angle it is shot from pulls the viewer into the scene and through I love it and it looks very Scottish.

Wow, great! I like how the landscape disappears into the fog, and the waterfall that's only faintly visible.

Basil

A very nice image, Paolo. Love it.
Andrey

The Shire come to life. Looks like Frodo, Sam, Merry, and Pippin will be crossing that bridge any minute now!
Fantastic, fairy tale shot!