Welcome to the light

[Raphael Sombrio]

Hello everyone! I don't know is there another guy from Brazil, on this forum, but I am from the southern Brazil and I'm very happy to have the opportunity of this interaction with photographers from other countries.

First of all, please, forgive my poor English, I'm not a master of this idiom but I will try to convey my message.

Well, I would like to share my authorial work, it is of Southern Brazil landscapes, especially from the mountains we have here, where a plateau similar to the Scottish countryside was cut off by the forces of the planet millions of years ago, and this event
formed a chain of fantastic canyons.

This is an image that I really like and that represents that place, it is a panoramic composed of six vertical shots.

Please feel free to comment and critique.

 

[AlanLichty]

Beautiful image and a very nice way to introduce yourself and your work. Remarkable view - the layer of clouds and the sun star at the horizon adds a lot to the scene as well. What is the elevation from this vantage point and how far down does the valley in front drop?

 

[Darcy Grizzle]

Raphael that is gorgeous! Welcome to Focalworld

 

[Travis Rhoads]

Welcome to Focal World...what a cool part of the world you are from! Great image. I like the softness to it, not too much contrast. I hope you will post more images of a great looking place here.

 

[Ben Egbert]

fantastic first post welcome

 

[Zeph]

No problem understanding the "photographer's language" and thanks for the local geological lesson. In the foreground, the soft wind blown bushes don't do justice to the overall scene, but the view makes up for it. Those are some steep mountain slopes, just beautiful.

 

[JimFox]

Hi Raphael,

What a wonderful introductory post to the Forum!

I like how you angled the viewers eye in this composition. Where the eye starts in the lower left with the opening in the canyon and travels across the image to the upper right to the sun. Well done here, and good job to not get any round lens flares.

I don't think we have anyone from Brazil yet, so you are the first!

Jim

 

[Mike Mancil]

Beautiful scene and an excellent landscape image. Welcome to FW.... Mike

 

[Timmeh]

Hi Raphael,

That is quite an overlook, and something we don't normally get to see. The overall composition is really nice, and you worked the foreground plants into the background mountains well. I could do without the blurred out plants making it so high into the frame, but that may have been unavoidable.

Tim

 

[Raphael Sombrio]

Beautiful image and a very nice way to introduce yourself and your work. Remarkable view - the layer of clouds and the sun star at the horizon adds a lot to the scene as well. What is the elevation from this vantage point and how far down does the valley in front drop?

Alan, thank you! For me it's a great honor to participate in something like this forum.

Well, the height of the general sierra in the state of Santa Catarina is not much, only 1,830 meters on the top.
The height of right here on this view is 1,500 meters in relation to sea level, and the Atlantic Ocean is approximately 60 kilometers away, at the point where the sun is rising in this image.
The difference between the height of the plateau where I take the shot and the plains below are at least 1,000 meters.

 

[Raphael Sombrio]

Raphael that is gorgeous! Welcome to Focalworld

Darcy, thank you!

 

[Raphael Sombrio]

Welcome to Focal World...what a cool part of the world you are from! Great image. I like the softness to it, not too much contrast. I hope you will post more images of a great looking place here.

Travis, thanks so much! Yes, I will. I'm happy to share the place that was always my background!

 

[Raphael Sombrio]

fantastic first post welcome

Ben, very thank you!

 

[Raphael Sombrio]

No problem understanding the "photographer's language" and thanks for the local geological lesson. In the foreground, the soft wind blown bushes don't do justice to the overall scene, but the view makes up for it. Those are some steep mountain slopes, just beautiful.

Zeph, very thank you!

 

[Raphael Sombrio]

Hi Raphael,

What a wonderful introductory post to the Forum!

I like how you angled the viewers eye in this composition. Where the eye starts in the lower left with the opening in the canyon and travels across the image to the upper right to the sun. Well done here, and good job to not get any round lens flares.

I don't think we have anyone from Brazil yet, so you are the first!

Jim

Jim, very thank you!

Yes, the distortion and different exposures may are really a big problem on blended shots.

 

[Raphael Sombrio]

Beautiful scene and an excellent landscape image. Welcome to FW.... Mike

Mike, thanks so much!

 

[Raphael Sombrio]

Hi Raphael,

That is quite an overlook, and something we don't normally get to see. The overall composition is really nice, and you worked the foreground plants into the background mountains well. I could do without the blurred out plants making it so high into the frame, but that may have been unavoidable.

Tim

Tim, very thank you!

As usual I always include a good portion of the foreground, because I want to give the expectator an idea of what it was to stay there at the exact point, but of course often the foreground point is not very appropriate.

Thank's for comment!

 

[Kyle Jones]

Really beautiful scene! That's a great first post. I haven't seen much from Brazil so I'm really looking forward to the images you'll be sharing.

 

[Raphael Sombrio]

Really beautiful scene! That's a great first post. I haven't seen much from Brazil so I'm really looking forward to the images you'll be sharing.

Thanks Kyle! In really the landscapes of southern here are almost unique, so is not like others Brazilian places more known on the rest of the world.

 

[BarryHamilton]

Really nice opening shot, Raphael! We don't often get to see images from your part of the world!
I love the soft light and contrast here! Beautifully done!
Welcome and I'm looking forward to more from you!