Excellent point of view from the corner of this rather large square area with the plants. This angle really draws the view into the photo and towards the builidng and it's beautiful architecture. The sky really sets the mood here. I would be interested in seeing what the original color version looks like.
I like the overall composition but I wish you would have brought some asymmetry into it. It appears "too perfect": Corner in the middle of the bottom line and divisin in halves of the foreground and background. What I really like is the way you have stressed the separation between the building and the sky. It has a great effect but at the same time by contrast the foreground is no longer highlighted. It is neverthe less a great shot! Congratulations.
I love the wide angle perspective, Sal. It does look like you may have added a new sky...that would explain the 'glow' around the edges. Otherwise, I like it.
Hello Salvatore. Composition seems good to me, with a judicious use of the wide angle at the corner of a triangle, bothe alleys on the sides leading to the small castle in the background. Technically, I personally think there are some flaws. I guess you used your lens at the wide end of your zoom, and the corners seem really soft, with a normal distorsion (which could have been slightly corrected in pp), but an unpleasant fuzziness. I'm not particularly fond of your black and white conversion. It lacks "punch", and the greys are rather dull. You should have worked your conversion in order to accentuate contrast and bring in a wider range of tonalities It's greyish throught the image, and that doesn't help to bring out the textures. Then there's this glow around the edges. I'm not sure if it comes from an unsuccessful attempt of sharpening, or simply the immoderate use of shadows/highlights adjustment. This glowing is simply not aesthetic, as far as i see it, and I doubt it would make a fine print. I think you have a good basis (the original photograph), but you should try to improve your pp skills which, after all, is not any different from the traditional process of working film in a dark chamber. Cheers.
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