Norwegian fishing village - C&C welcome

[davidedric]

This maybe a "record shot" - that's where we were - but I do find it pleasing and I've tried to get the composition good. What thinks you ?

Dave

[Geoff F]

Maybe a boat in the bottom left corner area heading towards the port would have helped towards creating an absolutely perfect scene. But I'm not complaining about what you have here now.

Just one slight comment. There appears to be something strange on the bottom edge just left of centre.

[dje]

Very nice indeed Dave. We are planning a trip to Scandanavia next year and now I'm excited !

Dave

[Manfred M]

A very nice shot, Dave. I like the way the sky and water complement each other.

One thing that looks a touch strange is the very bottom and centre-left part of the image. There seem to be three spots of green as well as a number of hard "circles" that look like clone stamps gone wrong.

[deetheturk]

Very nice Dave, +1 to Manfreds comments!

[Donald]

That will do very nicely, Dave. I think that's a super composition. The shoreline, from the bottom right, takes us back into tgeh image to the base of the prominent mountain, from where our eye is then taken back across the image and into the background. Lovely.

[ionian]

Really nicely composed. As mentioned above, the cloning of the water needs some work. If you are using PS CC, I find that the content aware fill works best with small square areas, so start at the outside of the part you want to remove and work in.

One last thing that I might try, if it were mine, is to tone down the blue hue on the mountains in the distance and bump up the highlights and clarity slightly on these areas. Take this with the proverbial measure of sodium chloride, as I am still learning - but might be worth a go.

[Mike Buckley]

This is wonderful, Dave, once you fix the post-processing error already mentioned. This is classic scenery in the small part of Norway that I visited last year, and your very nice photo brings back great memories.

[Ziggy]

Beautiful location.

[davidedric]

Good grief! Can't believe I missed that horror. Will fix it.

Dave

[Shadowman]

Have to agree with Manfred on the yellow circles, wouldn't be so noticeable if the vibrant reds didn't keep pulling my gaze downward.

[IzzieK]

Dave...those mountains dwarfed this village so much that it looks miniaturized. Very nicely done indeed...after you fixed those cloned errors...that is...

[Ndukes]

This is a superb one Dave once you fix the pp issue at the bottom. Should be simple enough as per Simon's advice. I wouldn't do anything else to it.

Guess that will be going up on the wall.

[davidedric]

Many thanks for the feedback. I've re-done the cloning, result attached. There was a tree in the bottom of the shot, and I couldn't move forward and didn't want to change the framing. However, it also gave me the chance to try different cloning methods using Lightroom, Perfect Effects and Photoshop. This is the Photoshop version, which was definitely the best (I don't naturally turn to Photoshop, because I am so useless with it. One problem I did have was, that using the lasso tool, I could not get content aware to deal with the very edge of the image, and had to resort to a slight crop (appreciate this may be because of inexperience). I'll post my other attempts in the Post_processing forum, for interest.

Dave

[IzzieK]

Dave...a long time ago I was like you and cannot deal with the Content Aware tool. I since found out that if you have a larger object to clone out, the left and right of the image where part of the image can be copied, you simply make that side a little bit precise. On your shot, this is such a simple thing as making the lasso tool do its job (there are no larger objects involved.)

Here's a rough edit using the Content Aware and lasso tool. It still need a bit of cloning, I admit but here you need to use the clone tool on normal blend but a lower opacity and brush away towards the left and you are home and hosed.

[bnnrcn]

Wow! A beautiful place and a very nice shot Dave . I wish I lived there. Great place! Thanks for sharing

[davidedric]

Thanks, Binnur, but you might find it a little chilly in winter - we are north of the Arctic Circle here

[Mike Buckley]

What's the name of the village, Dave? If you don't know, what area of Norway is it in?

[davidedric]

Hi Mike,

It's called Reine, and it's in the Lofoten islands off the north east coast.

Dave

[Mike Buckley]

It's called Reine

That's what I suspected but wasn't sure because I was not familiar with the angle of your photo. The buildings in the foreground center and right side of your image are in Reine and the buildings on the left side and in the distance are in Valen, a village so small that it isn't on most maps of Lofoten.

If you look at the farthest left edge of your photo, you'll see a small red building. That building is a rorbu (plural: rorbuer), a fishing cabin that was used by the cod fishermen to stay in at night. It's difficult to tell from the small size of your image but there are some fish racks beside the rorbu still used today. The building has long since been converted with modern amenities to a rental unit used by vacationing tourists. My wife and I stayed in that rorbu for a week last year. It has a wraparound deck and the scenery from that deck made us feel like we were living in heaven on earth. In our 33 years of travel, we've never stayed in a place with such drop-dead gorgeous scenery.