In case you couldn't tell ( :) ), this shot was taken looking up at the corners and cornices of two neighboring buildings. One of the cool things about the otherwise sleepy town in which I live is that the downtown buildings are rich in architectural details from bygone eras, despite the downtown being utterly rundown. I took 100 shots down there today of brickwork, metalwork, woodwork, doors, windows, stairs, stones, handrails, guardrails, friezes, cornices, medalions, and a couple of crows.
Processing here involved a crop, some curves, BradP's USM, and some global color enhancements. That's about it...talk to you soon.
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First Impression:
My eyes went to the dark corner, down to the red bricks, then up to the cream coloured corner. Funny black lines at the sky interface. Looks like the sky was “cut from paper”
Composition:
Good eye. Lots of colour and texture. I like the way you broke up the square with the 45 degree angle for the top building. A 30 degree angle may have been more pleasing, not as much vertigo!
Subject:
Met challenge well.
Technical:
Excellent lighting and colours. Good DOF. Picture seems a little grainy, may have been to much USM
Summary:
Good capture, less angle may have been more pleasing.
The diagonals are daring for an architectural photograph. I dig this one though ;) The color contrasts are great. I bet someone commented that this might be me eh? Great job!
I think you might usefully have used a monochrome conversion of this: that would have emphasised the graphic nature of the shot more strongly, and it's those intersections of lines that make this shot, of course. I don't find much colour here that would really not finction better as tonality in a black and white composition. However, it's one of few shots so far that actually uses the compositional advantages of the square crop effectively, so you must be praised for that. Good, strong work.
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