| I think this is an excellent photo. Central to that is using a long lens, so that you are not a large part of the image. You have also processed it so that the image is quite sharp. There are certainly areas for improvement. The lighting is mid afternoon and quite harsh. The sky has washed out on the upper right and the courtyard and buildings on the right are quite dark. If this picture was taken in raw, you might try reducing the exposure in the conversion process you use, and if you have photoshop cs, you might attempt using the shadow / highlight feature to bring out detail in the dark and light areas. If it was a jpeg, you will be able to recover some of the detail in the shadows, but the highlights are lost. There are methods using curves and blending layers that will recover some shadow / highlight detail, and you can also recover some in Google's free Picasa. However, the best answer is to reshoot when the light is not so intense. A long exposure right after the sun goes below the horizon would produde an amazing shot, as would a very early in the morning long exposure. I would also move to my left when taking the picture, as the buildings on the right are more interesting. |
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