This image is of the clock tower at Cornell through a window in Willard Straight. I couldn\'t look through the viewfinder at the image due to a wall and so had to take this 10 times to get the framing correct. Lots of post-processing to get the sky the right color.
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Place: 74 out of 180 Avg (all users): 5.5583 Avg (commenters): 7.0667 Avg (participants): 5.2326 Avg (non-participants): 5.7403 Views since voting: 793 Views during voting: 319 Votes: 240 Comments: 17 Favorites: 0
First Impression - the most important one: Good picture, well taken .. a couple of distractions that need a little work.
Composition: The picture is skewed mildly and I think rotatation to correct this would have helped .. there is a slant .. I am not sure that line you rotated this to previously .. but the tower itself the open window and the frame are not straight - and this struck me on first viewing during voting.
Getting in the whole window frame may have helped .. or pushing the window as wide as possible to remove destration of the dirty glass and the handle ... Just a couple of ideas.
Subject: Meets the challenge.
Technical (Colour and light): I thinnk these are fine, but going from the comments received you may no longer .. check out what happens when the contrast is upped .. I think it may kill the picture .. but you never know.
To grow its vote?: Just play around and see what happens ...
Summary: Keep on trying you are improving all the time ... can't wait to see more.
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The sky looks very odd and doesn´t really fit with the tower, next time you are going to specifically work on the sky, make sure there are no telltale signs that you did so, like the strong halo around the tower. Other than that, pretty good and I really like this shot, especially the composition, gave this a 7.
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