St Stephen's Basilica - C&C

shepthedog

Here is another one from Budapest! Little bit of post processing done in Lightroom..
I recieved an email from a Hungarian Tourist Website wishing to use it after I only had it up on flickr a couple of hours.. No payment offered but full accreditation and link to my flickr so as its the first time I have got anything like this I am more than happy to let them..


Thoughts as always welcome.

Borderfox

Nice shot and the processing really adds to it

AnCatDubh

congrats on being recognised. that's so cool. nice capture too - just one wee suggestion is to try straighten your horizon. It appears slightly 'skewed' but depending on how tightly the original is crop'd you shouldn't have any difficulty in straightening. Cheers.

elven

There is a lovely colour to it, and it's nice and crisp. I'm bothered by the squinty as well - but because it's such a wide shot you can't really get away with tilting much - there's distortion at both sides, if you look at the verticals. Best to use the line from the top of the big roof (seems like a silly word but I'm not sure what's more appropriate!) to the ground and get that straight up and down. It might be worth using a lens distortion filter or equivalent if they have it in LR to bring the bottom corners in or the top ones out, to counteract the wide angle distortion.

Zillah

Horizon isn't straight, tilt it to the right a bit. Its also far too dark, check the levels in photoshop. Nice colours.

Chunky Monkey

I know very little about photography but I've noticed a lot of people mentioning crooked horizons to people in photographs that look very nice. Why does the horizon always have to be staight?? Is that not a little boring?

shepthedog

Thanks for all the feedback everyone..I'll bring it back into lightroom and have a plan around with it.. Was taken handheld so might explain why its a little off..

Merry Christmas all

AnCatDubh

Chunky Monkey wrote: »

I've noticed a lot of people mentioning crooked horizons to people in photographs that look very nice. Why does the horizon always have to be staight?? Is that not a little boring?

It tends to be more pleasing to the eye - although not a hard and fast rule and perhaps you have a point in so far as there will be a trade off in making a photographic series have the desired impact without being boring. Its really a case of whatever looks most appealing to you the photographer. I mean, sure you could straighten a shot of the leaning tower of pizza but it would kinda lose the effect. I think straight horizons are like many of the rules/skills of photography - you learn them and then adapt them to your requirements which may mean 'going against the grain'. For example; on a particular theme, perhaps candids at a wedding or other ocasion, close ups taken with camera at an angle or 'skewed' in post processing can be incredibly attractive.

In the case above, the building lines at the bottom of the basilica make it fairly obvious that the shot was taken with camera at an angle. If its the desired effect then thats fine but in this case and just to my eye, i would think it would be more pleasing to straighten it a little. This is easily done and if it doesn't improve it, then its a case of undo to the original.

Cheers.

Chunky Monkey

I'll be honest and say if I look at it very closely it does look like it would be nice to tilt it to the right very slightly. Though that's only after staring at it for a bit.

@the OP...but it's a very nice picture all the same