photobum said:
There are some lens distort on the right side. Use Photoshop to correct it.
Also, your image lacks luminance. Try using the Zone System next time you shoot.
Err... what kind of comment is this? I'm getting all confused just reading the comment.
I think it is more helpful if you would state specifically what you meant by luminance, be it with respect to the Zone System, or through some concise example to prove show your point.
If you are trying to ask the photographer to portray the picture with different zones represented or in a balance between the darker zones (Zone 0, I or II), the gray (zone IV, V or VI) and the whites (zone VIII, IX), just say so. As it is, I'm having difficulty trying to link "image lacks luminance" with "try using the zone system".
rapier84 said:
Hi all,
Been trying out my month old camera on some architectural shots. As the wide end of the zoom isn't wide enough, I decided to do this in portrait format and converted the colours to black and white. Comments are most welcome.
I'm not going to comment on what is a good black and white photo, and neither am I qualified to do so. However, I find your comment/caption to the photograph interesting, especially the part about "the wide end of the zoon isn't wide enough". So are you saying that this is the shot make under a certain compromise to your visualisation of the image? What did you exactly imagine the picture would turn out to be? Did the limitation of the equipment give you the same thing as you'd visualised or did it give a better or worse than your expectation?
Are these questions relevant to the picture? Probably not. But as this picture looks more like a forgettable image to me, I really cannot make the head and tails to why you choose to shoot this picture and show it for commenting. Why is the image forgettable? cos, it's simply another ordinary shot of a building we are so used to seeing, that it become uninteresting.
So, at the end of the day, you just have to ask yourself, why did you like the shot? Did the shot give you the desired effects? If not, then work on it so that the image would not be just another forgettable image.
Don't get too concerned with technicality of images. That can be easily learned or corrected later on. Try to figure out on what you're trying to portray first, and work from there. There will bound to be limitations on all equipment, and that's not necessarily a bad thing as well, cos sometimes amazing results occurred because of the limitation that pushes you to think out of the box.