The churches of Salzburg

... and the same message with people.

This is a view from outside to the historic centre of Salzburg, UNESCO

heritage, taken in February this year.

Sorry about the crane, there were renovation works near the cathedral.

Thanks for the time you take to leave your oppinion.

Maria

Maria -- Although the title tells me what you were interested in when you took this photo, for me that interest isn't carried through in the shot itself.

The underlying issue for me is that no one thing (or relationship between several things) really has precedence here. There's the bit of railing and the river in the foreground, the bright blue sky and schloss in the background, and it between (in shadow and against the dark hillsides!) is the bit that the title indicates you were actually interested in capturing. Do you see how this would be confusing to the viewer?

That said, the location that you picked has a lot of potential, it's more a question of timing and framing. What if you were to try to shot again with the sun behind you? This would pick out the beautiful pastel buildings and the spires of the churches against a dark background, giving you a much better contrast. You would also want to consider zooming in and cropping down quite a bit -- the railings and riverbank in the foreground compete with your real interest, and the bright sky leaves everything else looking a bit lost. If you zoomed in a bit too then you could lose the crane on the left-hand side and the trees on the opposite bank on the right all while enlarging the spires.

With shorter days, winter can be a really hard time to shoot, but the flip side is that morning comes later and evening comes earlier so you don't have get out of bed quite so early to catch an 'early morning' shot.

HTH,

jon

Hi,

I don't like it either. It destroyed all possible photos of the castle I made from near the dome. At least in the version with people it is partially hidden.

But given Jon's comment, yes, right, it could have been cropped, as there is nothing interesting in that part of the image; the bridge is totally uninteresting for this photo.

thank you for your comments

Maria

Thank you so much for your time and the very useful comment.

Actually I ignored an advise of a fellow photo.net member who said I shall upload a photo from outside of the city of Salzurg from another location, where more river was visible, including the mountains around, but not the church on the right.

I will return and edit this comment after uploading that one, as I am not home now.

For now so much that I was at a seminar on Salzburg and in the morning there was always seminar; and the seminar was held at the university, on a remote location to be reached best with taxi or the buses provided by the seminar organisators - in other words, little flexibility :( And I could not afford the hotel to stay one day longer, after the seminar finished ... The disadvantages when you take photos as byproduct to other trips. Actually fellow conference participants seldomly take photos.

I am not sure I would have wanted to see the buildings pastel coloured. I am fine with them so grey that one would think they might be white.

speak later

Maria

Hi Jon, hi everybody,

Here I have the larger version of the other photo on the topic city of Salzburg seen from outside.

And above a crop concentrated on the spires. I guess on the cropped version the feeling of the river gets lost; but then again the river comes across better in the linked version.

thanks

Maria