tmjacobs

Wow! Amazing. Almost surrealistic. One small thing bothers me though: considering the time of day and the color of the sky I would expect that the grass wouldn't be that green but would have much more of a red cast. Is this really how you saw it? Or has the filter anything to do with it?

A superb folder BTW !

great folder!

Composition isn't particularly interesting, IMHO there's a better photo to be made of a detail of this, which you can see in the attachment - only to give an idea. Also the photo suffers from lack of sharpness, you might consider correcting that in PS and boost the colors just a bit.

Well...I'm afraid you'll get a lot of negative feedback here as well. However interesting the idea and the procedure you used may be, it's the result that counts. And the result is....well...ugly.

The polarizer did its job too good: the sky is a bit too dark. Also you should have included a bit more room on the left side of the building. The right part of the foreground also is a bit too dark, but the foreground isn't very nice anyway. So it's perhaps very difficult to shoot a pleasing photo from this angle anyway.

Mmm...colors/composition and light aren't particularly interesting. Also the light house itself isn't really beautiful. Taking it closer to sunrise/sunset might have given a better result.

Very nice, but the sky looks photoshopped a little, especially in the upper right corner. I don't mind a bit of photoshopping, but it should be invisible. (I could be wrong of course, in that case God did the photoshopping -and had a bit of an off-day)

Great colors, but composition could have been better with the building a bit more to the right.

Mmm....as you suggest yourself this is just a snapshot: neither composition or light are very interesting. If you'd have spent a few minutes more you might have taken a better photo: the left side shows a sunlight pattern that looks promising. The pillars give many possibilities for an interesting composition. Also shooting this photo closer to sunrise or sunset improves the colors -but that of course applies too most photography.

you might consider rotating it 90 degrees counter clockwise. IMHO that gives a better composition with everything pointing up instead of to the right.

Despite a less than optimal composition this had great atmosphere and colors.

Did you do nothing else with the sky except darkening? It looks as if it has a sort of directional (horizontal) blur applied. If this was really so...well, you were lucky indeed.

Yes, Andrew, a tripod was allowed. As a matter of fact the day I was there, there was some sort of feast day going on, with all sorts of Christian youth communities, so it seemed, anyway, it was very busy. It might be because of that that they didn't make a problem of me using a tripod. Also because of the crowds (I guess) they had opened the front door which gave a flood of reflected sunlight, which did help this photo IMHO.

In general in France church interior photography isn't much of a problem, although that may have changed. FYI: in Spain it is almost always not allowed and in England you have to buy a (inexpensive) 'photo permit'.

Any critique welcome, I also invite you to take a look & critique

and/or rate the other photos in this folder. If possible, take a look

at the 'large' versions. Hope you enjoy them, thanks!

the photo itself is quite good, I'm not that positive though about the border: it's too distracting and busy IMO. Also I would have chosen a diferent position for the title: either centred or aligned to the left of the photo.

...and again: the color version is the clear winner! :-)

Very nice, but I would remove the guy behind them with PS cloning, he's very distracting.

Yes!! This is much better than the B/W version IMO. Thanks for taking the trouble of uploading this color version.

I'm interested to know what version you prefer yourself.

In general with the few other photos where you uploaded both a color and a B/W version I liked the color version better.

 

Very nice atmosphere. But I think I would like the color version more. That would give more contrast between land and sky.

Well, it may not be very constructive, but this is a very good portrait. Splendid detail and sharpness. Only -minor- thing I can think of is that IMO the background should have been 'quieter'. Either less DOF or choosing another background might have helped.

Why B&W? I think I would have liked it better in color.

I like the translucency and the foliage. But I would have zoomed in more (or crop it somewhat) so the bird fills more of the frame. Great folder BTW!

Wow! Great! Only tiny point of critique is that sharpness is not 100% optimal.

Very good indeed! The beautiful face of course helps a lot, but what makes it special is the almost marble-like impression this lighting gives.

Great! Good sharpness & colors. Has a majestic feel.

Wow! This is awesome! Great surface texture, somehow looks like marble. The expression in his eyes is very intriguing, makes you wonder what he's thinking of.