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Challenge: Right Angles III (Advanced Editing VII)
Collection: Portfolio
Camera: Nikon D3100
Lens: Nikon AF-S Nikkor 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6G DX VR
Location: Stourhead, England
Date: Sep 14, 2014
Aperture: f/10
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/20
Date Uploaded: Sep 16, 2014

Corner of 18th Century building, caught bewteen tourists. Minimal editing and grateful for advice on how I could improve image, especially simple processing advice.

Statistics
Place: 45 out of 73
Avg (all users): 5.2211
Avg (commenters): 6.0000
Avg (participants): 5.3023
Avg (non-participants): 5.1538
Views since voting: 276
Views during voting: 150
Votes: 95
Comments: 6
Favorites: 0


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09/28/2014 09:06:31 PM
*Greetings from the critique club*

Compositionally I have mixed feelings about this image. It has a great right angle, which was perfect, and required, for the challenge. But I also found myself wanting to see a bit more of the scene. Overall I think you made a good choice. There is a nice variation in color which drew my eye throughout your whole imageand there are also multiple textures which is interesting.

Technically I think your colors are good, they look very real. There seems to be a but of softness in the upper part of the image. Did you use a tripod? I would guess you did since the ground seems very sharp, but I would have preferred sharpness all the way up the wall. The lighting is nice, no areas with overly dark shadows, although the light is a bit flat. There is not a lot of lighting drama in the image.

As far as simple processing advice, I wonder what adding a bit of contrast would do? Also you could play with lowering exposure a bit, or play with levels and curves then adding a bit of saturation & vibrance to the greens and oranges to get a bit more pop to the image.

Overall, nice entry. It certainly meets the challenge. When comparing your image to those top scorers, those images seem to have a bit more depth and lighting drama.

Thanks for sharing this interesting bit of old building. Keep shooting!
Julee
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
09/23/2014 10:50:33 PM
nice crumbles and colours.
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09/18/2014 11:42:55 AM
I like the photo, but I was wondering if the exposure was brought down a bit whether it would make the colors pop out more, as well as accentuate the lines/angles. Good perspective/framing.
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09/17/2014 02:25:15 PM
I really want to not like this stately corner, but for some reason I like it. Lots of cool colors going on.
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09/17/2014 11:40:12 AM
Good textures on the wall, and well composed. The sharpening looks a little extreme, though, and a bit more contrast might have helped.
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09/17/2014 02:24:21 AM
Nice colours and textures in the stone.
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