saw this one on another site -- liked it there and liked it here -- your dramatic style and interpretation of subjects is always interesting and compelling.
two excellent scores in a row ... you must be beaming ear to ear .. well i would be .... congratulations karen on another excellent image and an awesome score .... this is really the most amazing image .. that building looks just about superimposed onto that sky ... that sky is incredible .. surely you've done a bit of a dodge and burn or similar to create the sort of glow around the building ..?? .. whether its out'v camera, or you've helped it along a bit, is neither here nor there to me, (as you'd know!), i absolutely love this image ..
Seems that many commented on the 'haloing', myself included, but it certainly didn't hurt your score very much. Being a PSP user also, I have a better idea of how you obtained the end result.
the time rules and dominates the world, but that clock will die as well. interesting things I start thinking about when I look at this photo. AND the sky is not eternal either. what is eternal on this image?
Hmm...the halo effect along the edges of the tower really take away from an otherwise great photo. I'm thinking a polarizing filter could have been used to minimize the over post-processing of the sky.
Looks like shadow/highlight and/or some type of HDR treatment was given this image resulting in an unnatural haloing around the building. Or. perhaps. this was added "manually". Generally speaking, haloing artifacts add little to photographic images. Image is otherwise nice and perspective good.
I really like the perspective used here in capturing this image. Very good detail and DOF for the distance covered. One thing slightly distracting, and I don't know if it was intentional during post-processing, but the whole tower seems to have a diffused halo around all of the edges. It is a very cool shot and overall a job well done. Good luck in the challenge.