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Rashed, Aditya,

Thanks.. I'm very glad that you liked this. I'm pretty happy with it too. I was skeptical about putting in b&w but it came out pretty well.

Karen

Black and White version of this. Comments always welcome.

Redid it again and decided it stands on it's own in black and white.. uploaded here.

Still not sure which I like better.

Karen

I'm not sure which I prefer.

B&W version:

Hehe. Thanks Bob!

Karen

Thanks Roberto. Glad you liked it.

Karen

Jef, thanks for looking and taking the time to comment. I am glad you liked this.

Dennis, Thanks so much for commenting and I'm glad you liked it.

Micki, Thanks! I can't believe the response I got off this. :) I actually didn't dodge and burn at all, I just went back to the untouched original image and reworked it. I straightened it a bit and did quite a bit of sharpening work. I also saturated it some, but not too much. The blues just came out on their own. Glad you liked it.

Karen

Drew, Eduardo, Thank you, I'm glad that you liked my work on this. And thank you for taking the time to rate and make comments, I really appreciate it.

Tony, Thanks for taking the time to comment. I agree that this one is much better. Not rude at all.. the other one just didn't cut it for me either, it needed work. I'm glad you enjoyed this. The sense of space and volume is what I was going for when I reworked this.. glad it worked. :)

Karen

Joseph,

Thanks as always for stopping by. Glad you liked this. I felt like the skinny crop was more disorienting, maybe even bordering on abstract.. where this crop really gives perspective to the enormity of the architecture in the cathedral. I think the crop could go either way, but I am leaning towards this one. Glad you enjoyed it!

Karen

Ok, I've taken another stab at this one. Some straightening, lots of sharpening, square crop instead of this tight crop. Check it out here. Thanks for your advice on this one.

Karen

Second attempt at this shot, this time with some (lots of)

sharpening and a square crop. Original is

href="http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=6367889">here.

Advice? Comments always welcome.

Thanks Dave. Another one I'm going to reprocess to sharpen it up a bit. But I'm glad you liked it. :)

Karen

Thanks Dave. I really like my idea here but I'm not so sure about the final product. I will probably redo this and maybe version 2 will be even better. I don't like how the image falls apart on the left near the ear.. I think I need to rework that a little bit.

Glad you liked it!

Karen

That is indeed a unique approach. After I took a picture of the very same thing, I looked around to see what others had done with it as well. I opted for the straight up the middle approach. Had a knee injury that required surgery a month later, I was not about to walk all the way up to the top. I've seen a couple others like mine but not too many. I like mine but it seems to have come up short for me.

I've not seen any from your perspective. What does it for me is the way the levels seem to converge at the same point. The whole thing is just awesome, the treatment is perfect. The composition is excellent. While I recognized the architecture immediately, I haven't seen it from this perspective in anyone elses work. Very nice.

Karen

Micki.. you crack me up. You rock.

Andrew... I kinda like this. I think if you took this idea on an image that was more simple, it might work better. With this effect it's hard to differentiate the close trees from the ones further off, etc and it becomes busier than you might have intended. In color it's probably a simple image, but with this effect it's very busy. Imagine if you had just one tree in the frame, much closer, and with the sky the way it is behind it. That would be sick. (That's a good thing.)

Karen

Brandi.. Joseph.. thanks for your comments. This little guy was pretty annoyed with me. He was out in the middle of his web looking for dinner when I spotted him. Got some really cool silhouettes, then he got annoyed and tried to hide from me. I thought he was cute!

Karen