Westmisnister silhouette

[suhail_dps]

Hi All,

Please critique my latest effort at silhouette...

Suggestions and improvements welcome...Thanks

[wulf]

Reminds me of Pisa...

In other words, the towers have a prominent lean, which distracts from the sunset (is that a natural sky? If so, what a fantastic time to be there!). Easy to fix in post-processing, although worth trying to get things as straight as possible in camera unless you deliberately want the slant.

Wulf

ps. When posting from Flickr, it is best to use the medium size, which provides an excellent compromise between dimensions and bandwidth.

[pcp]

This pictures looks like a drawing for me....Beautiful multi color BG and Backlight FG creates a dramatic feel.

[MikeM]

Great colors!

You might clone out the few specks in the silhouette.

I like the boat and water in the foreground, but you could try cropping off the bottom and leaving just the silhouette. If you don't want to crop that much off, you could clone out the boat that overlaps with the building. Just some ideas.

[windrider86]

what a wonderful thing to see and even better to have been able to capture it and share with us

[xxpinballxx]

was the photo editted since posting? I am not seeing the lean wulf is talking about.....maybe im just tired.....
Love the shot and it looks almost drawn as far as the silhouette goes.

[weatherwise2]

What a great sunset with that distinguishing roof line. I don't see the tilt either. My pentax has a tilt that I have to adjust for all the time.

[suhail_dps]

Thanks You all for your responses.

Indeed the sunset was wonderfull... this sky is not all natural...the top left corner area is Gimp Enhanced...i poped up all colours a bit and played with curves as well.

@ Wulf: i couldn't see the tilt myself until u mentioned..but still i am not to sure if there is one..which way do u feel its tilting towards the left or right??

@ Mike M: i tried cropping but somehow this felt much better.Also m still trying to learn post processing so will try to give a shot to cloning, let see what happens then.

@Pinball : No, i have not edited the photograph since posting.

Thank you all once again for your response.. i'll now put a frame to this photograph..and this is definately going to my "Starred Keepers" category .

[wulf]

Originally Posted by suhail_dps

@ Wulf: i couldn't see the tilt myself until u mentioned..but still i am not to sure if there is one..which way do u feel its tilting towards the left or right??

Looking again, it is less obvious than I first thought. The central tower leans about 0.38 degrees to the left, which is emphasised by the fact you are not straight onto it (thus the projecting bits of stonework are higher on the right than on the left) and probably by the intense red at the bottom right of that tower making the detail a little hard to read there.

However, while it can be corrected, it does cause other sections of the picture to start to move out of true (lens distortion or just the effect of perspective) and you lose some sharpness of detail with the rotation so you can probably just put it down to me being over-picky (it certainly didn't really deserve to be called "prominent"). FWIW, the tower at Pisa leans almost 4 degrees from true, which is much more obvious.

Wulf