arnold_schmidt 0 Posted September 21, 2006 Any thoughts on this? Old picture I've recently modified in CS2 Thanks very much for your input Link to comment
biggerjon 0 Posted September 21, 2006 Great shot, really like the composition and the lighting is great! Very strong use of silouhette, and a great sky behind it Jon Link to comment
christinesweet 0 Posted September 21, 2006 i like it!! very dramtic feeling! like a storm is coming... Link to comment
jason j 1 Posted December 20, 2006 I like the shapes in this photo. You might crop the right side a little. Where is this? Link to comment
arnold_schmidt 0 Posted December 20, 2006 The photo was taken in Cambridge, UK. I believe it's the gatehouse into Kings College (allthough I'm not 100% sure). I'm inclined to agree with your idea about cropping the far right, maybe I should bring the right hand edge over such that it aligns with the rightmost of the small turrets. Thanks for your interest and advice. Link to comment
thorgal 0 Posted January 14, 2007 excellent photo.great tones and nicely composed.great perspective and angle. Link to comment
marianoemert 0 Posted February 21, 2007 Excelent shot, ambient, light and composition are great. Congratulations Regard from Uruguay Link to comment
johopgood 0 Posted April 9, 2007 It makes a very striking shot. It would be interesting to see the original and compare what you have done. Was the original a silhouette? Did you add the sky? Link to comment
arnold_schmidt 0 Posted April 9, 2007 Thank you for your interest in this and several of my other photographs. I'll try my best to answer your questions. The original JPEG featured the spectacular cloud formation; it was a bit of grab shot (full automatic etc) taken early in the evening while there was a storm brewing. My camera struggled to cope with the dynamic range within the scene and produced a pretty unimpressive exposure where the buildings were hopelessly underexposed. I originally abandoned the photo but discovered with a bit of post processing (mostly contrast curves) I could reduce the details in the gatehouse and make the entire image into a silhouette. I've attached the original JPEG from my S3000 to show you what I had to work with. Thanks again for your interest, Robert. Link to comment
Guest Guest Posted December 31, 2007 It was a very good idea to eliminate detail in the buildings--we gain so much from the rhythm of the towers, which I think are flamboyant Gothic, and their juxtaposition with the cloudscape. It keeps our attention where it belongs.Here the juxtaposition is the critical thing. The climactic element in the towers, the tallest one, is losing its contour in the dark clouds above it, and the climactic element in the clouds, the highlight, drifts off to the side of your picture. This didn't bother you enough to stumble around out there getting more grab shots, and it may not bother you enough to spend some more time massaging your tonal values in Photoshop; but whatever you do decide to get hypercritical about and fuss with, that's really the whole enjoyment, isn't it?I keep puzzling over the layout of the buildings, and that jog in the roofline at left that gives this shot so much depth. Thank you for depriving us and leaving us in mystery. Link to comment
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