Details of the sculpture can be found here:
//www.gateshead.gov.uk/angel/
Shot on Saturday afternoon as the sun was going down, Sigma 18-35mm zoom, EOS 300D.
Post processing of Saturation, Curves, Dodging and Burning, cloned out half a figure from bottom left.
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Wow. This was my highest rated photo for the challenge. The lines and perspective are excellent, not to mention the colors and the great use of shadow. Sorry to see it out of the top 10, let alone under 6.
(Funny, I never noticed the oversharpening "halo", even on reviewing it. Now that I see all the comments, OK, its there, but doesn't seem that obvious to me. Hardly a major flaw, and easily fixed.)
There is a distracting loss of contrast and a haloing effect introduced by what I suspect to be overly prominent use of the Highlights and Shadows filter or alternative to that effect. Otherwise technically sound.
With that aside, now for the good: I love the way you framed and composed this shot. The lone figure standing next to the larger subject adds so much more interest to this photograph. Well done.
I like the angle, I like the way the wing gets larger into the side. The only thing really missing is a better background. Getting those colors to radiant might have really made this special.
I really love this picture the angle is just great and the person to make scale is very well positioned. Very good. The only thing that i think is not nice is the white contourn on the statue but the rest is fantastic, great job.
I really like the way you have photographed it. The composition and use of perspetive/scale is outsatanding. But I just wisht that you had not partially ruined a great shot by sharpening it to the extreme. It almost looks like a composite now. It's sad that you were able to see it and capture it like this and have gone a bit far with digital tools.
But this is one of my favourites nevertherless because of what you were able to envision and capture. Great photography.
this is thing i love about dpc. here's something i had never seen before dpc, and now i immediately recognize it. almost like that haystack thing that zoomdak does ;)
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