A little church

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Impressive.... No comments... 7/7

Excellent!

Jene, jako z nejake pohadky, excellent idea and execution, cheers Jana

very strong and impressive

I like this alot! Dark, moody, very nice job.

are assome

Stunning!

Gothic! Very nice. Could you do someting about the convergence of the verticals perhaps? 6/7

oh, ah! oh! so creative and mystical and baeutiful. and I love it. superb PS work!

Bravo. the church is a so so beautiful and the atmosphere is fantastic.

My compliments.

Biliana

Nice treatment.

hmmm, dobryyyyy

mysterious ... good composition of colours

This church looks mean!! In a good way!

Impressive shot!!

Wow!!!!10/10

Beautiful little church - and very expressive image of it!

Hope you don't mind "opposing" criticism. I say this in the true spirit of artistic critique, as I hope this is the medium to do it in, and that we are all intellectually mature to take negative as well as positive criticism.

 

If you are going for this look, then that's great. But one of the things that bugs me a bit is that it looks kind of like one of those muddy HDR blended images that are all the rave these days. The colors get muddy and watercolory and the photo is no longer a "photo" but looks more like it was generated on a computer. You lose sense of depth, and the inherent mood and atmosphere of the place has been replaced with an exaggerated ambience that looks too other-worldly to put it in true human perception.

 

The composition itself is wonderful. If I can imagine peeling away all of the exaggerated color, contrast, dodging, burning, whatever, I can see that you captured a church with a wide angle lens, and the sky above was medium ceiling clouds that were nicely dramatized by the wide angle.

I fully agree with Jeffrey. It's all a matter of taste, of course, but I don't quite understand the attraction these muddy HDR images seem to have. It's funny actually: HDR and tone-mapping are meant to capture a wide dynamic range and what these kind of photos show is a very limited dynamic range, probably somewhere within the 50-100% black range.

Simply stunning. 10/7

Lovely, I really like the effect !!!

Ten years from now, I think we'll all look back at these HDR/tone-tone mapped images and wonder, "What were we thinking?!" But of course I'm in the minority on this issue. I think this could have been a good photo without the HDR. However, with the overcooked look, it looks very depressing to my eye -- somewhat like a little tomb.