One view of Parliament House, Canberra

[Mistyisle]

Took this pic earlier this month as we were travelling in Australia.  Keen to hear views on it.  Settings were 21 mms;  f5.6 ; ISO100;  1/800sec, on a cropped sensor.

[Tersha]

I like the lightness of this Jim, but the left side looks as if it is leaning outwards, maybe the lens?

[Patrick]

I am not sure what is throwing the the bright wall left of the security folks out , apart from that i think you have the makings of a very powerful monochrome frame , personal taste i think the whole left side does not add to the composition a clever crop is needed and i think you have a beautiful frame , The shadows for me are screaming out for black and white Jim , just some thoughts.

Thanks for showing.

Not sure what you think but something like this but the fixed angles

[Mistyisle]

Diane – Thanks, yes it is, but I have corrected now. I had gone rusty in how to do this, but after a bit of struggle I managed. The problem was that the verticals on one side of the pic were also different from the verticals on the other side. However, I used the Perspective tool in Affinity Photo and that worked great!

Patrick – re the ‘bright wall’ the Histogram for the image was fine, which was a puzzle. Nevertheless I have lowered the Highlights and it is not as bright now. Have experimented by cropping the left side out.

I will try Black & White soon, using the Nik Collection – Silver Efex and will post the result. Not sure what you last sentence means?

[Patrick]

Not sure what you last sentence means?

I posted an edit of your image in monochrome and cropped , but it disappeared , i have had a few images lately that after i post it , it vanishines.

[Mistyisle]

Here is the pic in Monochrome – B & W.  I quite like it, will revisit it tomorrow.  🙂

 

 

[beth]

there’s still a slant on the verticals.  i think the b&w version is best but i’d still like to see more contrast, some true black and white tones.  check your skies, there’s a little bit of a halo on the edge of the building up top.

[Lenny Wollitz]

Hi Jim. I really like your BW processing here.  I just removed a few things to lead the eye to the back.  Not sure what you think.

 

[Rob Wood (Admin)]

Oooh, – really liking where these monochromes are going…

[Tersha]

B/W is looking really good!

[Mistyisle]

Well, Beth, I have used contrast much more, it might be better, still thinking on that one.  Have fixed the sky.  Not yet fixed the verticals over on the left, which I agree is important and will do.  I got fooled first time around thinking it was fixed but there is an imbalance on the various verticals on the left.

Have taken out the female policewoman.  Reluctant to take out any of the three other main actors!  However, agree that the male policeman needs to remain to draw the eye down there and to give a sense of scale.

[Rob Eyers]

My 25 cents worth Jim.

[Rob Wood (Admin)]

Very very interesting. I like it.

[beth]

these are the tones you’re looking for.

[Mistyisle]

Hi Rob, I am very impressed, you have done a great job and I think that making the sky black is genius! 😀  Am now a few hours in trying to replicate it. However there is just one thing I am thinking of changing.  The forefront has been cropped and to give the impression of depth,  I think it maybe needs to be retained ( minus the Circular cover).

[Rob Eyers]

I agree about not cropping Jim. I was working from a screen capture so after I straightened the floor there wasn’t enough left. I’m sure you can improve on my effort by working from the original. Please post your final so I can see it.

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