Critique Please :o)

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Permalink Reply by Roger Liss on January 30, 2012 at 4:59pm

Brandy....I'd say that you succeeded in your efforts. What a great shot of the mausoleum. The background is excellent. The blue doesn't do much for me; but other than that, this is a solid 8 out of 10.

Permalink Reply by Trevor Salzwedel on January 30, 2012 at 8:56pm

I would say keep the blue but make it a bit of a lighter blue to try and give that illusion of the moon shining upon it. Other than that, beautiful photo.

Permalink Reply by Gary Vernon on January 31, 2012 at 4:08am

Hi Brandy,

nice idea trying to create the eeriness in moonlight

Several reasons why this doesn't quite work for me,

The image comes over a little in the snap shot genre because the building appears to be 'leaning backwards'

This is what happens when you don't get the verticals parallel with your sensor - try taking the subject from a higher POV to square the architecture.

Another way is using an ultra wide lens and pointing at the lower half then crop down the top part in post.

Also you had space at the side in this you could have correct it in Photoshop or a more precise software is:

http://www.dxo.com/us/photo/dxo_optics_pro/features  where you can correct easily 'keystoning' manually.

The over vivid blues especially the flower takes some of the atmosphere away in this for me and the large blocky bottom right shadow gets a bit distracting - a smaller creepier shadow with thinner branches imho would have worked better.

The last thing is the amount of background noise especially generated in the sky - as the ISO was 400 it can only be produced by the style of processing you have used..

Permalink Reply by Reg Warboys on January 31, 2012 at 4:21am

Took me all of one and a half minutes Brandy to straighten the converging verticals and give a new look , OK you loose a little of the image but easy to do, if you know how. Hope you like the new look. No way would I class this in the snapshot genre.  Regg