Under the Clouds

Happily snapping with all the other tourists.

6 vertically shot slices stitched together.

Large is better.

Thanks for viewing.

But the contrast should increased a bit, looks gloomy as it is! Bad weather for taking pictures maybe!

PDE

Missed you...;-))where were you traveling this time? The photo is nice but too dark,needs a bit more PP.  I hope you don't mind my working on it a bit.. BTW, where is it?

Shana Tova!

Pierre,

Thanks a lot for the visit and comment. You know, the world sometimes can be a dull place but this morning in London was certainly not. Regarding the weather, I tend to disagree: there is never bad weather for taking photographs. There might challenging weather, yed, but never bad. The same holds for going on a trip: there is never bad weather for an outing.

Pnina,

 Thanks for the welcome, this time I was only on vacation (and had a very busy period before that). Regarding your post processing, it is a matter of taste. I tend to prefer the balanced and subdued tones (that are in my opinion closer to what I saw on that morning) to your warmed up and to my taste a bit over saturated version. But of course that is a valid version too.

Best Regards,

                         Tibi

Sorry for the 10 minutes time change.... as  before I was asking if you don't like my offer I could delet it,now it is impossible. As PN claims to be a learning site .... In general, from now on I will not upload my point of view.

I understand your reason, for me the details and colors are hardly seen, and it has nearly a monochromatic ( a bit muddy )palette ,even though I like the composition of the square.

So thats how London looked at you this day... glad to see you back.;-))

Pnina,

I would have in no case required you to remove the variant. It is a good thing to do and sometimes each of us can really learn from these exercises. To prove that you had a good point here, I post another variant that I went a bit your way and it is indeed better. But I was careful not to affect the sky, look especially to the left side of it: in your variant it got all flat and lost it's sense of spatial depth.

Thanks again for the useful lesson and please go on freely in the future to do this as it is really useful.

Tibi

Thanks for your answer. I'm glad we can relate to each other's work freely. I'm very open to critique on my work, glad that you are too,I have learned a lot by listening.

I think that your reworked version is much much better than the first, I agree that the L side of yours is better than mine! but the sky are still looking a bit "whashed out" and IMO needs some more strength.

Nice to meet you  again;-))

The large version looks brilliant, great detail and sharpness, I think the "further variant" version that is a in between shade of Pniina's and your original is perhaps the best colour balance for my taste. The scene of Nelsons Column in Trafalgar Square (I might know it was the UK with the clouds) is of course a well photographed site, but most people tend to concentrate on one area, and it's refreshing to see such a wide angled panoramic view. There is lots going on in this image, and it's style kind of reminds me of a lowry painting, with the various figures going about thier business. I would think it would make a great framed image, and although I know your not a great fan of perspective correction, I think it would enhance this image if only for the purpose of printing.

Kind Regards

Alf

PS Welcome Back!

Alf,

Thanks a lot for your attention and welcome. Indeed the converging verticals can be fixed and I did a new variant that I attach here. I also redid the stitching and took away the lady in turquoise that got ghosted in the initial version.