Managed to go for a very short walk today to test out the ankle, made it all of 100 metres from our house. The aim was to get a shot of these cobbles on a sunny day after rain. I had the rain, however it was overcast and every looked very flat and dull. Couldn't carry the tripod and it was pretty murky when I took the photo, managed to salvage this from 1/30sec exposure, so fairly happy. Hopefully, I've managed to get something out of this, even if it was just testing out my ankle again! Couldn't think of a title really, I like the leading lines in this photo, it forces you to look at the window (shame it isn't very interesting!) then the lines take you up the hill and out of the photo. Hopefully, people will enjoy the textures of the stone, cobbles and wall. However, reckon it is more likely to get dull and slightly out of focus comments (which are very true :) )
Cropped, b&w conversion with Channel mixer, slight levels, selective sharpening, then normal dpc resize etc.
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I like the graphic quality of this. the white block forces me around it up into the smaller and smaller boxes of road until I am stuck at the top left in a new type of box. No choice but to move up and out - excellent flow to that.
This is very interesting. You must live in some kind of magical land ;) We don't have this sort of thing where I live. Anyway, my only suggestion to improve this would be to try bring some black into the photo. As it is, I mostly just see highlights and midtones, but no shadows. I think it might look even better with more shadows. Just my opinion, though :)
Really like the sense of perspective on this - and the white building provides a perfect balance for the midtones. Would just suggest you crop a slither from the right to remove the beginning of the next window-frame, just one of those things that once you've spotted it, it keeps distracting.
I like this in that it draws your eyes up through the picture following the path, nice contrasts here. I think I would have liked to see higher up the building though.
Very interesting POV. You've placed yourself in a great spot for this photo, and it's well suited to this challenge. Could be this work monitor, but this photo is coming off a little flat, like it could use just a tad more contrast. Most noticably in the foreground bricks. Might want to bump the black point up a little also. All JMO of course. Good luck in the challenge.
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