Beauty between green
by alexgarcia

Comment by sherpet:
I like the composition here...

Here comes the sun
by alexgarcia

Comment by Rebecca:
Hi Alex!

Ahh, one of my challenge twins! Congrats on picking such a fine title for your entry ;-)

I can't say I don't like the concept, but I think the sunrises and sunsets probably gave the voters the impression that the entries were shoehorned in.

From a more technical perspective, it's a rather dull sunrise, with little texture and color variation in the sky. The buildings along the shore are rather uninteresting, and the pier(?) in the foreground is really distracting.

Beauty between green
by alexgarcia

Comment by NoellaSue:
Even clear bra straps shouldn't show.

Here comes the sun
by alexgarcia

Comment by docvorhies:
Good connecton between the song and the pic. Shot not all that interesting. Nothing catches my eye.

Here comes the sun
by alexgarcia

Comment by Lucky:
colors flat, composition not very exciting

Dawn
by alexgarcia

Comment by margiemu:
Hi from ctp2:

The lighting on this shot is beautiful. It is crips and clean. The composition is interesting, leading the eye down to the sunset. I like the reflection in the windows. The only minus on this, I think, is that the building is a little bland. All in all a great shot.

Dawn
by alexgarcia

Comment by Rebecca:
Hi Alex!

Two things leap out at me immediately. First is that the photo is oversharpened. The halo around the building makes that too obvious. Second is that the subject is just not terribly interesting. The building you've chosen to photograph doesn't have any interesting features, which is very important in a DPC contest. The sunrise colors are great, but that just doesn't go far enough to saving this photo from boredom.

Dawn
by alexgarcia

Comment by yanko:
Greetings from CTP2

Lighting/Color:
I like the lighting and the color is very pleasing.

Subject/composition:
Good subject for the challenge. The building creates an interesting diagonal and uses up the space well. The only thing that bothers me a little in terms of the composition is the space on top. The way it is now my eyes want to go up and out of the image on the left as oppose to down the diagonal line and into the sunset on the right. I think if you had more space at the top the image would be read more easily from left to right. However the shot is about the architecture and you captured it well.

Post Processing:
Overall it looks good. I tend to sharpen my images a lot also but one thing I try to do at least some of the time :) is avoid those halos. If USM is your only sharpening method (i.e. if you don't have smart sharpen) I would delete the effects of the USM around the very edges of the building. Or at least delete say 50% of the USM effect around the edges just so the halo isn't that prominent. Really the image will look sharp even if the borders of the building isn't tack sharp. If you want to keep that as sharp as it is another option would be to clone out the halo. Since this building has very straight lines I would use the pen tool to create a selection around the building and then invert the selection and use the clone or healing brush and paint over the halo edges. That way you can edit real close to the building edge without altering any of the pixels of the building itself. Anyway, the halo is not a huge distraction but I think voters will take points off for it regardless.

Dawn
by alexgarcia

Comment by MrXpress:
Neat picture but there's too much artifacting (or at least what appears to be) in the center and right of the building

Dawn
by alexgarcia

Comment by ubique:
It looks like the kind of photograph that the architect and his client would both happily pay you to take; very professional. 7.