Touching each other brother and sister in a crowd
by eirasi

Comment by dipaulk:
I love this photograph. I am not a big fan of b&w (tho I enetered one in this challenge) so would love to see the color shot after the challenge. (I didn't deduct points for b&w -- just a personal preference.)

Touching each other brother and sister in a crowd
by eirasi

Comment by nicoledb:
Very nice contrast! I think I would have cropped off the white backs from the bottom of the picture to get even more impact, but still a very good picture. 9

Touching each other brother and sister in a crowd
by eirasi

Comment by squeaky:
Beautiful grey tones, perfect. Gorgeous.

Touching each other brother and sister in a crowd
by eirasi

Comment by arngrimur:
Meee Meee Meeeeeee, sheep is good, I dig this shot, the frame is full of interesting lines.

Touching each other brother and sister in a crowd
by eirasi

Comment by SandyP:
Great picture. It feels very touchable.

Touching each other brother and sister in a crowd
by eirasi

Comment by whiteroom:
beautiful 10

Landakot - The catholic church in Reykjavik at midnight
by eirasi

Comment by Philos:
Critique Club Comment:

Hello there.

What am I looking at here? Wow, again a photo from Iceland.
You must have quite a lot of good photographers in Iceland, because I see more and more of you.
This is again a beautiful photo from Iceland.

Congratulations on your highest score this far, and on your first 6+ photo.

Some people have complained about the top of the church being cut of. I̢۪ve taken a look at your other image in your portfolio, and I must say, even if I don̢۪t like the tight crop that much, it makes this one stronger, and it gives the church a bigger feeling, it let̢۪s us guess how big it really is.
The floodlight works great on this church and creates beautiful shadows and highlights.
This could have been in a travel guide to Reykjavik, so I believe you succeeded with your photo.

There is just one thing that I don̢۪t like about this photo, and that̢۪s the perspective distortion. It looks like the tower is falling. This is a common thing when shooting high buildings especially with wide angle lenses.
There is also a way to correct that with PS.
Just take a look here if you are interested, maybe you can practice on your photo and upload it to your profile when its done, I'm very interested what it will look like then.

Beautiful picture all in all.

If you have any questions, comments or other things about this critique, or are bored and want to spam someone just PM me.

Grrrtzzz

Peter

Landakot - The catholic church in Reykjavik at midnight
by eirasi

Comment by Mad-D:
Ahhhh ekki alveg að virka að klippa turninn svona

one man walking
by eirasi

Comment by slynneblarp:
I have no idea how it might have done for the challenge. However, I think it is a great emotive photo. The man in black against such a stormy sky envokes a great emotional response. Neat photo!

Landakot - The catholic church in Reykjavik at midnight
by eirasi

Comment by eirasi:
I'm not sure if I'm are dissapointed or not. It is from the evening before the end of the challenge so it is some kind of last minute entry. I wasn't going to submit it untill I saw it was ok. And after I submitted it I realised I liked it a lot. And it became my highest voted entry until now.

But I'm the lowest of all icelanders taking apart in this challenge and still all the best "winning" icelanders were not.

And also. It seem to me that I vote a bit different from so many others. I just seem to have different taste than many or even now most of the other voters. Perhaps find something else to build up the selfconfidence again.

And the tower. It was intended to be cut of. I wanted it that way. I also had one with the tower but I'm not quite sure wich was better or worse.

But funny. I posted the picture also to my Fotolog page and I got the comment there:
fefronte @ 2004-09-13 07:59 said:
really beautiful!! Would like to visit Iceland one day...
So it wouldn't be completely useless in a tourist guide!

Message edited by author 2004-09-13 08:18:31.