What I wanted to say: as far as capturing the tonalities of the white stonework, the lighting and processing here are simply outstanding. And the sky is quite beautiful, very rich and strong and Anselish.
Compositionally, unfortunately, it's another story. The whole composition feels cramped, there's no sense of space and dimension. The convergence is a bit much; one wishes it had been possible (was it?) to step backwards a considerable distance and regularize things a bit. As far as replicating Ansel goes, of course he had a view camera to deal with stuff like that, but the convergence in any case isn't something he's have allowed, or not to such a degree.
Photoshop actually allows a great deal of latitude for correcting perspective with the skew and perspective controls in the edit menu: here's a quick example of what's possible:
 and a revised version 2 with height more retained:  .
So, I love the luminosity of it, the processing of it is very pure, but the composition is way too tight for me and the convergence is just too extreme for my tastes. I could handle it on the tower, actually, but not on the base structure.
ETA: Looking back now I see that I could have kept a bit of the stretch, the base structure looks a bit squat now doesn't it? But you can see the possibilities are there. Revised edit posted above.
Message edited by author 2009-02-06 21:36:16. |
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