Church in IR.

Crikey Igor, I am impressed with this! Since I have been so critical of some your past works, I felt I owed it to come and praise this one.

I was wondering how long the exposure was as IR does make for longer exposures and the clouds show movement? That motion in the sky looks great in contrast to the sharpness of the rest of the picture.

Well done, it's beautiful!

Excellent!!

Stunning! The colors and balance are perfect. I can see this photo displayed in any wall in my home and it would just work! Would love to see it without the jpeg artifacting around the towers.

Voce soube aproveitar muito bem as luzes e as cores est㯠perfeitas. parab鮳 e muito obrigado por essa vis㯠linda.

I think I didn't make myself clear, due of my not so good English. I'm not saying that the use of ANY filer is a gimmick. As an example, I don't consider a stunt the using of a plain polarizer or a red filter for black and white work. But those so-called "creative" filters, like pola-colors, star, IR for digicams, most of the digital filters (Photoshop), and so on, are usually falling in the tricks category WHEN the raw image over they are applied is not strong enough.

What would you recommend the photographer do on a global level or specifically to improve the work?

I thought it was clear from my first comment. Try to make your image stands ALSO without the "dramatic look" filters. Also, try to do something more than a postcard.

Regards, PG

For my personal taste you did exaggerate the effect a bit too much. The difference in color and contrast between the sky and the center is to large to just let me enjoi the image - i immediately think about the computer work involved. - But: I complain only on (your) high level of skill - its clearly great work.

At first your crtiticism was about ANY filter. Now you are back peddling. Actually, you really have nothing to say. Your comments here are simply negative and that's destructive, not constructive. You are vague to the point of meaningless. That completely defeats the purpose here.

Since you have none of your own work to use as example and since you have nothing of a constructive nature to offer, your credibility is now non-existent. It is simply unacceptable to call a work poor and to claim it doesen't meet some standard when you are unable to articulate anything about that standard. And to be negatively critical because an image does not meet some notion of yours of "genius" (whatever that is) is utterly absurd.

There is nothing wrong with people offering opinions here who do not post their own work. But in the absence of that, you had better have something of substance to say. Otherwise you are just being negative and that's cruel.

VL

Great job, Igor!!!! Beautiful image! can't wait to see more of your IR pic's :)

 

Cheers, allon.

Thank you for the pleasure and congratulations from all my hearth

Brian,

 

Thanks for editing.

Too Irreal.

Great shot. Looks like a dream...

Regards.

Excellent! Beautiful! Magnificent! Bravo!

Wonderful lighting and clarity.

Hi, Igor. I find myself pretty much in agreement with G. here to say that this is one of your better works. I think I agree with P. Gasser to say that creatively speaking, there are more original images, BUT... this is really well composed AND, most important of all, this has a great light ! My problem with most overly colorful images of this kind is g鮩rally that there is nothing but colors and composition or lighting qualities are often missing. Here, that's not the case. Now should the colors be that strong ? I think it's a matter of taste but colors do match well, here, at least. Regards.

fantastic

Wow!

Simply Stunning!!

It certainly is a stunning shot, and I wish I knew how to do this. Full points!

So clear!

7/7 Great work all around. I assumed (until after reading the comments) that this was taken in Russia. You did an amazing job of visualizing the mystique surrounding slavic culture. brilliant!

A++++++++++ awsome lighting

It's a beautiful image.

 

We have to get used to exploring unrealistic, non-straight photography. It's simply different than traditional photography, and not nearly as tiresome as the usual crap in photo mags.

 

But this actually DOES look straight, if hyper-real.

 

It reminds me of the recently-discovered work of that Russian color photographer from Nicholas's last years (name?).

EXCLENTE CALIDAD TECNICA, COLOR Y COMPOSICION,,, SALUDOS

My o my... you can draw a soul of a church. Superbia.