for b/w critiques...

Very interesting shot.
All of the figures in the foreground have an un-natural glow and are severely over-exposed.

This is a scene that looks like it has an extremely high dynamic range and would be one in which the Merge to HDR feature could be used to regain some detail in both the highlights and shadows.

The next time you are confronted with such a difficult scene you may want to shoot RAW and consider using some HDR techniques to capture a better tonal range.

HDR? is that a feature of PS CS2? need to research on that

thanks for the reply sir

Oooh neat glowing effect (or maybe they're angels with halos?).

From an architectural picture standpoint, I think it would've looked better without the human/angel interest.

The top right and left corners (besides being void space) demonstrate vignetting, purposeful or not.

I think the picture would "have more to say" if you moved your shooting spot forward towards the entrance and used a super wide angle lens.

I wouldn't mind seeing what the original color version looked like.

Paul

All of the sudden this whole week everyone is suggesting HDR... Is this HDR Week?

mojos wrote:
HDR? is that a feature of PS CS2? need to research on that

thanks for the reply sir

"Merge to HDR" was introduced with PSCS2 to provide automation to a rather tricky process of combining 2 or more shots of the same scene in such a way as to take the shadow details from a heavily overexposed frame and the highlight details from a near normally exposed frame.
BTW, I answer to "Bob"