To dawn, Eos greets Helios.
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Comment by Neat:
It's very yellow, is something missing here?

Mute Swan
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Comment by tnun:
Is that a blue eye? Are they deaf as well as mute? Nice ballet.

My name is Gladiator !!
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Comment by snaffles:
Greetings from the Critique Club!

Lovely capture of an extremely historic site, to say the least. I have the Nikon version of that lens and can well understand why you used it for this shot.

A lower ISO may have helped to capture richer tones, I have to agree with the commenters who see flatness in areas of the shot. The shutter speed is quite fast so you must have been shooting handheld. For architecture, landscapes, anything where your subject isn't likely to be going anywhere in a hurry, a tripod is worth its weight in gold. You then have a stable base and can close down the fstop, open the aperture and slow the ISO right down.

And, assuming that you did the pp in the order in which you list it, you may want to do all your cropping, image adjustment and colour manipualtion before you resize. Then usm and save for web. Wouldn't hurt to try!

Feel free to PM me with any questions,

Susan

To dawn, Eos greets Helios.
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Comment by Cory:
Oh for some BLUE in this!! I love that orange, it just wants a friend! 6

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Comment by Sirashley:
This shot is simply awesome... The color, tones, and overall feel are all quite pleasing... Perfect shot for a Fine Arts challenge, well done 8

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Comment by MinsoPhoto:
Originally this was a 2 from me. I am bumping it up because I actually though about entering something like a white canvas with a simple red line through it. This is something, imho, that you could run across in a modern art gallery. I am not giving it one of my top scores but it is going up quite a bit from the original 2. Good luck.

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Comment by mgsmith53:
O.K., nice color and smooth variations...just not enough to make it very interesting I'm afraid.

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Comment by ineedauniquename:
hmmmm.... but yes your'e right seen some fine arts like this and it is rather pleasant to look at.

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Comment by see:
On the beach, relaxing with eyes closed, sigh..

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Comment by Ja-9:
this is not a bad picture...for me it needs something more to hold my interest