critique please: harbour bridge from pylon lookout

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critique please: harbour bridge from pylon lookout

Postby eyusuf on Wed Jan 17, 2007 12:40 pm

taken during my holiday trip to sydney. unfortunately i just brought my 70-200mm lens that time so it was a bit difficult to capture the bridge in a whole. i managed to take a couple of photos and stitch them in photoshop. here is the result:
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any critiques are welcome. thanks for looking.
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Postby Alpha_7 on Wed Jan 17, 2007 1:07 pm

I really like the treatment, make me think that it was just finished completion (that sort of era). I also like the lines.
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Postby eyusuf on Wed Jan 17, 2007 1:16 pm

Alpha_7 wrote:I really like the treatment, make me think that it was just finished completion (that sort of era). I also like the lines.


thanks for the comment.. :D
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Postby sirhc55 on Wed Jan 17, 2007 1:53 pm

This is a really great photo of a subject I hate :wink: I would even be tempted to crop in from the right hand side to give more power to the structure :wink:
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Postby eyusuf on Wed Jan 17, 2007 1:57 pm

sirhc55 wrote:This is a really great photo of a subject I hate :wink: I would even be tempted to crop in from the right hand side to give more power to the structure :wink:


thanks for the suggestion chris. the reason i included some space on the right is to give the sense of size of this bridge. i'll try to work on your suggestion.
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Postby sirhc55 on Wed Jan 17, 2007 2:23 pm

My thoughts are that the people give dimension :wink:
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Postby eyusuf on Wed Jan 17, 2007 2:46 pm

sirhc55 wrote:My thoughts are that the people give dimension :wink:


yup. and you see people and cars as well on the right side..:D
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Postby Willy wombat on Wed Jan 17, 2007 3:13 pm

The treatment really gives this image some pop. I am wondering if it would present better with a very thin black line around the border because it is hard to know where the image stops and the white background on this site starts?

Sharpness is fine and good composition with the bridge curves and cars in the background
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Postby colin_12 on Wed Jan 17, 2007 4:15 pm

The feel is good with this image. I like the B&W conversion you have used.
It certainly has that old feel to it. Baring the cars of course.
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Postby kamran on Wed Jan 17, 2007 5:35 pm

Yeah, great treatment! Love the sepia+BW tone. Nice lines too. Makes it feel like an old archive shot. Nicely done.

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Postby drifter on Wed Jan 17, 2007 7:28 pm

Nice shot and i really like the conversion on it .Like kamran said it looks old school but i agree with Willy it needs a border just to seperate it from the page here .
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Postby eyusuf on Thu Jan 18, 2007 12:01 am

thanks for the inputs and suggestions...:)
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