This is another one from the Supreme Court building in Washington, DC.
Editing Details:
1. Tonemapping of a single exposure
2. Shadow highlights adjustment
3. Levels adjustment
4. Curves adjustment
5. Unsharpmask with smaller radius and higher %
6. Resized and sharpened twice
7. Resized and smart-sharpened again
8. Saved for web
Statistics
Place: 1 out of 114 Avg (all users): 6.9144 Avg (commenters): 8.4167 Avg (participants): 6.9556 Avg (non-participants): 6.9014 Views since voting: 4944 Views during voting: 307 Votes: 187 Comments: 35 Favorites: 9 (view)
Greetings from the Critique Club! Don't thing I've ever given a more in-depth critique to a ribbon winner before, but here goes:
Composition and Lighting: Beautiful. You don't offer much for critique here =). My thing would be that the scene seems to be titled slightly to the right. Lighting is about perfect.
Technical: The first thing that catches my technical eye is the discoloration at the top of the door: the two green lens flare-ish looking things. But that would be easily modified in advanced. The distortion at the bottom of the door frame is slightly bothersome, but again this is a nitpick.
Conceptual: The funny thing to me is that even though this is obviously an entrance and won that challenge, it doesn't say entrance conceptually to me - the doors a closed. They don't invite the viewer to enter in. Though the depth of the pillars do.
Overall: As DPC agrees, this is a winning image. Congrats on the blue.
Overall a great perspective and technically solid picture. I personally miss to see more (ore the whole) of the entrance for the sake of the challenge.
Elegant Entrance
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