Saturday, 19th January 2013
Camping under the stars
by Simone Miotto
The last autumn I went to the Lake of Thures, situated approximately at 2000 meters on
Valleè Etroite - French Alps, to photograph at sunset and at dawn, during the night I lit a fire near my tent for shelter myself from the cold and I decided to potohgraph this scene.
Equipment: Nikon D300 - Nikkor AF-S 16-85 ED VR
Simone Miotto
was born in Piedmont, in Italy in 1989. I’ve always loved nature and particularly alpine environment, this love soon developed into enjoying taking photographs of natural landscapes. I began taking pictures in some ways for fun, until I bought my first camera body, a small Nikon D40x, and started learning the first technical core issues of photography.
After the beginning period of emphasis, in which every subject was a good one to be photographed, I realized that the most interesting to me was just natural landscape, which is still the genre I like best, even though I don’t despise the others such as life portrait or naturalistic photography, which I’d like to approach soon.
I adore taking pictures at dawn and at dusk, where the light is able to emphasize best the landscape I want to immortalize. My way of photographing is a continuing effort to improve, and I’m aware of how much there still is to discover and learn.
Website: flickr.com/miots/
Camping under the stars by Simone Miotto was photo of the day on Saturday, 19th January 2013. It is tagged Adventure, camping, Fire. You can leave a comment below.
14 Comments
Pamela North
I love the tracers of light coming from the fire but also the way the eyes are drawn to all the sources of light in the photo – beautiful
art x
wonderful image. technically well executed
Pauline Jones
Beautiful; makes me wish I had been there.
Donna Weems
Great capture. Original viewpoint. Is that the big dipper in the sky?
Simone Miotto
Yes Donna! On the left in the sky there is the big dipper!
Laurie
I agree with Pauline – I wish I was there, too! I can sense the solitude in your photo. Just beautiful. Thanks for sharing
Ginger Sanders
This is fantastic!
Laura Milholland
Just marvelous! You have done a great job of bringing us into this intimate scene.
Sierrabob
Enjoyed the graceful escape of the embers. Sets the rest of the lighting well, nice tough ant thanks.
Virgil Martin
Very nicely done! The extreme dynamic range of this scene is handled exceptionally well.
Sherry K
Oh, how this picture brings out the camping enthusiast in us all. Great picture!! You must have been taking pictures for a very long time to capture what your eye saw. Keep up the good work!
Tazmin
wow! phenomenal display of light and shadows! i love the dance of light above the flames, reaching for the sky and stars!
Flora
…what a fantastic night scene; looks so peaceful & beautiful, with a billion stars all around!!
Anne Egli
Having camped all my life, I am just so drawn to this scene. Haven’t ever tried taking pictures like this at night, but I’m going to this summer! Thanks so much, I love this picture.