It's an old house located at Árbæjarsafn. There is very much post processing. I first converted it to B&W and made it to a nice B&W photo. Then I duplicated the photo and added it on top all layers. Then I changed the blending mode to color, made minor color correction and a little burning and dodging. Finally I changed the size and added a white canvas.
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Hahaha! How fitting is this? I get to critique an image of the "monster" I enabled just a couple weeks ago!
This is an excellent image, one which I scored very high; and of course it just missed ribboning as well. So clearly you hit the mark here. Why did it do so well? Because it's moody, it "involves" the viewer in a tangible way, for one thing. Additionally, there's a fairytale quirkiness to the structure itself that is guaranteed to please people: based on the scale of the door, it's so TINY a structure, and it's like it's built INTO the ground, it just sings out loud of trolls and elves, hobbits and such. Very effective.
Nevertheless there's room for improvement. In pursuit of your "powerful" post processing, you've allowed the dark areas between stone and facade to block up a bit too much; it would be stronger with a tad more detail there. Also, there's a slight but distinct haloing between sky & roof, especially at the very top.
I've taken the liberty of doing a very quick & rough edit to show you what I'm talking about. let me know what you think :-)
Two top ten photos in a row, two honourable mentions - well done. And so close to ribbon and 7 points. Impressive composition of the old church. Hamingjuóskir, Magnús.
A quality moody Icelandic shot. With the burning and extra attention to texture you have captured the essense of Arbaer Museum, historical Icelandic achitecture. The symetry works very well. I like how the green door catches up the color of the grass and moss. The bits of burning that come down into the blue sky are a bit odd and distracting - perhaps you went a bit too far.
fantastic, i love the creative lighting/contrast used on the building and i love it when peopl have dramatic skies in their photos, especially when used with "architecture" a perfect 10
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