Cologne Cathedral in Black&White

I hope You like it. C&C welcome. The picture has some problems with the 100kb limit... Maybe I should upload it elsewhere and link it here.

Cheers

Rafael

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Different...I like it.

I like it, but I think this would benefit from a levels adjustment (for contrast) and a crop of the left to centre the image (rules are meant to be broken!)
B&W is not as easy as it looks as I've been finding out.. you really need contrast to pull it off, but keep your highlights from over-exposing.

Full contrast on a freshly calibrated monitor here... Should I post my PS settings?

I also thought about a crop but it looked to mirrored to me.

Thanks for C&C!

I think it misses a first plan, the wall of Cologne Cathedral is interesting it self, but without some contrasty plan in front of it, it's flat somehow. So the wall it self coud be a good background for someting else ...

Regards.

Viewed on a few calibrated monitors, it's lacking contrast

Ok, ok, so maybe I should redo the pic with some more curve manipulation.

Btw: do you think in these: Vitenam Adventures is also not enough contrast?