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Architectural Photography - It's Fate
Architectural Photography - It's Fate
JunieMoon


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Challenge: Destinations (Advanced Editing IV)
Camera: Olympus D-550Z
Location: Eastern States Exposition
Date: Sep 18, 2005
Aperture: F 4.4
ISO: 85
Shutter: 1/400th
Galleries: Architecture, Travel
Date Uploaded: Sep 18, 2005

 Used spot metering. Normal exposure. Light source was D55. White Balance adjusted for cloudy. Post processing, burned and dodged the siding, bricks, and shadows. Added saturation to bricks and right dome. Color adjusted to yellow. Increased brightness and contrast. Reduced noise in sky by 46%. Cropped and resized.

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Place: 142 out of 191
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Avg (commenters): 3.5000
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Views since voting: 803
Views during voting: 274
Votes: 192
Comments: 4
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
09/22/2005 11:33:53 PM
Architectural photography can be tough. One thing I would recommend is some sort of focal point or focii point....you've achieved that with the three different cupolas, but there's nothing really leading to it...I think it not allowing us to see the columns below, we're not able to appreciate the perspective at which this is taken at. I would suggest either seeing them, or cropping the photo further up near the bottom of the roof lines.
 09/21/2005 08:35:08 AM
I wonder how this would look if you had the chance to shoot even closer to the weather vanes. For me, I think seeing the directionals on them woud have a greater destination impact. I like the concept.
 09/20/2005 05:37:50 PM
It's oversharpened. Try, if you are using unsharp mask in Photoshop, to use less radius the next time, 0.2-0.5 is normally considered fine for web use.
It's also quite noisy - is this perhaps a heavy crop from a full-sized image?

As for the image itself, I don't really like it how one can glimpse the house below the roof - either you should have included more of the lower portions of the houses or skip that part entirely. You should also have moved slightly to the right so there would have been more space between the tower in the middle and the one to the right and it's quite distracting to the see that part of the building in the bottom left corner.
But quite frankly, I don't find this to be that interesting subject for photography. Couldn't you instead take a photo of the house we see a small portion of the bottom right corner? It seems to be a bit interesting.
 09/20/2005 07:46:46 AM
sky a bit too grainy, subject nice though


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