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[Meerkat17]

Hello All,
Your suggestions would be helpful - However, looking now at the image its become even darker since I saved it for the web. This is one of the questions I wanted to ask - does the central area need lightening?

The other question is - Does the image work? I'm still unsure about it as it seems to be a little "too busy" and keeps the eye searching. How do you feel about it?

Regards
David

http://www.btinternet.com/~David.Lewins/g5/images/durham_MG_0189_2.jpg

Durham Cathedral

[Radtech1]

David,

It is good to see you on the board. I like the shot but I would like to see more of it. In a "portrait" orientation, you have subjects at either end of the frame with nothing to look at in the middle are (where my eyes tend to go). I find that I am bouncing back and forth and back and forth. In a different kind of shot/subject that would be fine, but this subject tends to portray serenety and looking at it does not.

If you have other images from the same shoot, I wonder if you have a "landscape" shot, which would provide much needed ballast on either side of the subjects. So in answer to your question, I don't know if I would use the word "busy" - as my eyes are not all over the frame. Maybe too polarized, as my eyes go up, down, up, down, up, down, up, down, up, down, up, down - well, you get the point.

Boffo scenery, though - I love the looks of both edifices.

Rad

[Meerkat17]

Thanks for your input Rad,

However, no there is not another shot...reason there were trees on either side of that shot and I was forced to take it as a portrait shot :( I have alreasy cloned out some of the twigs from either side.

The only other shot I have is the Classic one which every other person with a camera takes - (I think you will understand - the same problem you had with the Space Needle) However, here it is:

http://www.btinternet.com/~David.Lewins/g5/images/durham_MG_0196.jpg

Regards
David

PS Its good to be back - still waiting for the G5 to be repaired and experimenting with the EOS 20D which makes the G5 seem like a toy!! :lol: