Scottish Stable Ruins from 1400AD

[mpaul73]

Hi,
This one a took at Crichton Castle, Scotland. Critique is welcome!

Regards
Martin Paul. http://www.photographyten.com

http://www.imgmag.org/images/mpaul73/Stables.jpg

[Calis]

Nice shot with fantastic colours! For me the only real critisism is the very thin bright green horizontal line in the top right. It makes me feel a little cramped i.e. I want to see what it is & what's beyond it. If it was mine I'd either crop it out, or if already cropped take a looser crop. If not cropped you could always go back there and wait for days for the light to be as good and re-shoot :-)

A minor point is the dark band across the middle: This doesn't ruin it for me, but I would prefer it if you could bring that up a little. No big deal though.

[Irish]

I agree with Calis. This is a nice shot of the old building but my eye wonders back to the light green at the top of the photo. By cropping, the eye would bounce back to the building where you want it to focus. I think if the photo was cropped the banding caused by the shadow in the middle section would disappear.

Just my opinion
Irish

[manncer]

:? :shock: 8)

I am curious as to how the capture would look if the camera showed the green area and less of the foreground. Like raise the camera up a few degrees?

Oh heck, I don't know. :oops:

manncer

[JZaun]

I have to agree about the green area, I keep wondering what is above it. I love the shot overall!!

Jzaun

[Leighow]

There is no doubt that this is a Martin W Paul image -- the light and color are (as usual) magnificant. Having recently read "How the Scots invented the Modern World" , I would now like to scan the walls for voices with a glass covered ear. What a difference 600 years make! While Digital and Scotland are strong partners in this image -- you clearly see the light and the potential.

Your website is equally stunning.

HOWIE

[mpaul73]

Thanks Howie!
The light on this evening was awesome. I wish it could be like that all the time. Going on feedback I done a new version with a crop taking out the bright line at the top and I do like it more. There was nothing worth including beyond what I cropped to. The sun was going done in that area so everything was burnt out. On a different day it would mostly be sky higher up so nothing really lost. I think the sky would weaken it.

regards
Martin Paul. http://www.photographyten.com

[Calis]

Can you post the revised version - I'd love to see it.