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Buckingham Palace
#BUCKINGHAM#PALACE#LONDON
Cretu Stefan
9 months ago

 

Edited: 9 months ago by Cretu Stefan
Cretu Stefan
9 months ago

Shoot with Sony A7 ii Sony 35mm 1.8

Daniel Springgay CREW 
9 months ago — Senior critic

Gretu welcome to critique - Thank you for sharing your fine image. Looking I think it looks better ar a monochrome in my view. See Attache.  I used Nik Tools silver Efx Pro Fine Art preset with extra Structure. Also Nik Tools Tonal Contrast to add bite. Some burn tool work and last sharpened. Why mono you may ask with the lack of good light I just thought that was the way to go.

 

 

Cretu Stefan
9 months ago
Cretu Stefan

 

Thank you

Ute Jackisch PRO
9 months ago

Hello Cretu,

I found your photo of Buckingham Palace very exciting. I took the liberty of interpreting it in my own way. I proceeded as follows:

Firstly, I developed the photo in LR and used generative AI to restore the upper part of the palace. I desaturated the red floor a little, emphasised the clouds and also desaturated the palace from ‘yellow’. I aligned the lines a little and finally denoised them with Topaz AI and sharpened them with the high-pass filter. It's just an idea. See what you want to do with it.

LG Ute

 

Mike Schaffner CREW 
9 months ago — Senior critic

Cretu,

 

Thanks for submitting this image. Other have given you some excellent suggestion so I won't cover that same ground. Technically it is well done other than it needs perspective alignment as Ute Jackisch has noted.

 

When I look at the building I find it large and imposing but frankly rather boring. I don't know that there is much that you can do in a photo covering a large area that changes that. The interesting bits are the small details. I would suggest pulling out the long lens and instead focusing on "close-up" shots of those details and how the light plays on them. I think that those could be more engaging to the viewer.

 

This is all of course just my personal opinion. As the artist, it your opinion that matters. I hope that I've given you something to consider.

 

Best wishes,

 

Mike S. - Senior Critic.