Old townby
imagine74Comment by Neuferland: Greetings from the Critique Club!
What a lovely old building and area of town! Looks like there would be a lot of history in this picture!
I see a couple of things in this shot that bother me though, first the overall composition is wanting, you have lines leading me all over the place but nothing is really keeping my attention, giving me something to focus in on. The rail in the front is very distracting and the different levels of the roofs is also very distracting. They are all fighting each other for my attention. THen you the blue dome in the middle pops up at me and yells, "HEY! OVER HERE!" Mayve if you had focused mostly on the blue dome and the spire on top of it, zoomed in over there. Then you would have a focus to your shot, someplace for people to concentrate on. Use the roof in the very front to lead me to the dome, cutting out the rail completely. Just my thoughts.
Also the lighting seems at high noon, very bright and over powering. Maybe a levels/curves or brightness/contrast adjustment could soften it up just a bit. Bring out the colors more. If you also used the Hue/saturation to diffuse the other colors and bring out the dome, again, giving the picture some focus.
Hope my comments help and good luck in future challenges!
Deannda
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