Toned Engine House

[Mike Parr]

They say practice makes perfect.................its getting there but...............

[Caz]

Re: Toned Engine House

I like it - an image with strong contrasts

[Stephen]

Re: Toned Engine House

They say practice makes perfect.................its getting there but...............

........................there is something you are not happy about, something not quite right about it.

Firstly, I think you have a perspective issue caused by using too wide an angle lens. Your exif shows 14mm which on your E500 is 28mm equiv. For a building such as this I don't feel its the right lens when you are stood so relatively close. You end up moving your eye as though you are looking up the chimney. The building has become the photo, whilst perhaps one could argue that you should be photographing the landscape and the building is part of that landscape.

You have also positioned the building too centrally within the frame for my taste, and I would have preferred the chimney or maybe the windows on a third line.

As for the toning, it looks rather as though you have selected the sky area around the engine house and darkened the sky, maybe increased contrast, then applied the toning to the whole thing. The result is that the toning is two tone and there is a halo round the chimney. That's my guess, but I maybe wrong

If I'm right and you did select the chimney so you could darken the sky, or maybe you just applied a burn brush, but the result has been the same. The best solution would have been to select the whole engine house, copy it, then darken the whole sky area from horizon upwards inc the building, then paste the building back in. This would eliminate any halo.

Sorry if all this appears to be slating your photo, but they are my initial thoughts. Its easy for me to say, having not been there of course, but I definitely think I would have got further back and included more of the surrounding landscape

[Mike Parr]

Re: Toned Engine House

Stephen, theres nothing wrong with a good constructive slating
Here is the original straight from the camera, oh and I was stood on a stone wall, not the best position to take a photo from

[muqtada123]

Re: Toned Engine House

its Good, nice work