[fionaB]

as always honest Cn C good and bad always welcome

[cpd23]

I like it a lot. Would you give us more information on how you did this?

[Angela]

It's certainly dramatic Fi and I like the contrast of the solid building and the blur of the moving people. I keep looking at it though and I think it could do with a slight tilt to the right?

[fionaB]

beleive it or not Angela the building is straight but the church is built on a hill. the ROAD is sloping down to the left but the building is actually straight....

fi

[skipper954]

Nonetheless, Fi, it LOOKS tilted and is very disconcerting.

Otherwise, spot on.

skip

[RichW]

Great Photo, love the blurred people in the foreground, really makes the scene come alive for me. At the risk of repeating the above, it does look tilted though

Rich

[JMitchell]

Great image and imaginative processing, very atmospheric. I agree with others, at least I think this is what they were trying to say, that even though in real life the road is tilted and what not, making the church look tilted, for the purpose of this image, it would be worth straightening it, so that it doesn't draw attention!

[sweet_sac]

Keep the tilt. The road is on a slope but the church looks straight to me.

I am digging the lines, there seems to be a sense of chaos kinda...obviously that's probably not what you went for but thats how it looks with the sky looking very angry.

[Dabhand16]

I'm finding that I really like the treatment on the church and the other street 'furnature' and people, the sky just does not gel, but I'm not sure why. Maybe it's because it is soft and fluffy compared to the edgy church, or maybe it is the lack of cloud detail. i'll just have to have think on this!

I'd correct the 'tilt' as it is a distraction, even if it is only a percieved tilt.

[nichpr]

I got the impression of tilt even before I scrolled down to see the street. The street appears to be level to me, meaning that the church is tilted. Other than that, I really like the photo - it has atmosphere and evokes all sorts of different emotions. Well done, Fi.
- Paul

[Rob Barron]

I know this church and this is a dramtic image of it but why have you compressed it so heavily@ It all looks soft because of over-compression. Such a large picture yet only 65Kbs is bound to have compression problems and this one definitely suffers from it.

Keep in mind you are working in mono so if you converted this to greyscale, you'd have bags of space to play with and could include all the detail on that fine church building and the stones of the road.

Get back to the original which I am assuming was RAW and give this another go. There is a cracking shot in there Fi, but let it keep as much detail as you can.

Cheers,
Rob

[fionaB]

Rob its not compressed to 65 k it is 195.......... I only ever "just" keep below the 200kb limit, my only guess is that the pixalo software is further compresing it which would explain why it looks pinsharp on another site and soft on here.

Fi

[orangepeel]

Originally Posted by fionaB

Rob its not compressed to 65 k it is 195..........

Snot... 64 KB (65,002 bytes)



Refer to this one

http://www.pixalo.com/gallery/data/504/church-on-the-mile.jpg

instead of

http://www.pixalo.com/gallery/data/504/medium/church-on-the-mile.jpg

[fionaB]

but even so OP all my pics i load onto here always look softer than if i load them onto another site


Fi

[Markulous]

Originally Posted by fionaB

Rob its not compressed to 65 k it is 195.......... I only ever "just" keep below the 200kb limit, my only guess is that the pixalo software is further compresing it

Yeah, it's why I keep to 800px max - above this and the site resizes to an 800px version (called 'medium') and the compression is somewhat high

Tilt: think there is one - check the lamposts

Church comes across as very dark and contrasty "set into" a scene which is less so (yes, I looked at the 864px version and yes, I know the stone is very dark in Scotland! )