Rebel in Ohio

[xxlt]

*LOL*..Hope I made you click :)
Just another castle picture...this one's just down the road from me. Sitting close to Ohio's top elevation @ 1200 ft. The story goes...that a German spy used the top tower to transmit shortwave during World War II.

http://www.boomspeed.com/xxlt/castlepiatt.jpg

[henkbos]

Didn't know Americans had castles. Any way the one who build this has something to learn.
As for the picture: compo and sharpness are good, but the colors seem a little flat. May be you should add a little saturation. I would also try to get some details back in the blown out roof.

[xxlt]

Back 2 the drawing board...henkbos...you have a great "eye" thank you for the help.

Here's the rest of the Story..btw:
http://www.dupontcastle.com/castles/piatt.htm

[Claudio]

My humble two cents...

Keep in mind also that sometimes colour looks flat in real life too. The colour of the brick work in the chimney looks pretty accurate to me, especially for that particular type of brick. For that reason I tend to think that the colour on the rest of the photograph is probably a very close representation of what you actually saw when you took the picture. If anything, I would suggest making the photograph a shade or two darker, nothing too drastic. I think that might make the colours stand out a little more.

Good photograph though.

[rodb]

That sure brings back some childhood memories. My family had a tiny lot with a camper parked on it not too far away from here. I spent many a weekend nearby while I was growing up.

Now I'd really chuckle if you posted some pics of Zane Caverns....

To put my comment back on topic, I think the colors are accurate. However, most people expect more saturation these days. Decision is up to you, of course.

[CyberDyneSystems]

henkbos wrote:
Didn't know Americans had castles.

To be sure ,.. what we have is a romantic stylized notion of a Castle here in the US as they were never intended to be "feudal". More Mansions in use. We have some early milliary forts dating from revolutionary to post Napolianic wars that would be far more likely to pass the test of "embattlement" :D

Nice photo,. and I too remind you that the last 20 years of color film advancement has included a progression towards more saturated and in truth less lifelike color. But a color that we nonetheless have grown accustomed to.

[xxlt]

*LOL*~~~Now you have me searching google...
http://www.dupontcastle.com/castles/#oh


Thanks everyone!! Get out and take some pictures this weekend. :)

bill from Ohio w/D300