Architectural Shot...whip it good!

[Dusty Sensiba]

http://dustonegt.smugmug.com/photos/232780360-M.jpg

Like I said...whip it good.

[SloYerRoll]

Where is this? It looks like a pretty cool place to shoot!

Critique:
I feel like I'm gonna fall over when I look at it. It's heavily weighted to the left w/o anything on the right to balance it out. The barreling that shows on the pillars also helps w/ this feel of being "pushed" over to the left.

The building itself is very underexposed. If your shooting the architecture. Don't worry about the light. Expose for the focal point. If the focal point is the inside of the skylight area. An extreme crop is in order. Get rid of the stuff in the shot that doesn't add to it.

Cheers,
-Jon

[NeilL]

Hi Dusty,

I like pics of this genre so would like to encourage you in it. I wonder, though, what you want us to see? It could be a photo for evidence in litigation against the architect for cracks in the ceiling - there are none of course, only kidding LOL. But do you see what I mean? I don't think you have analysed your shot for what you want to get us to see. All architecture is geometrical. To fill a frame with geometry might or might not be interesting. I like the philosophy of feeding the camera with its kind of food - line, shape, structure, texture, tone, color, luminance - but it then takes the human eye to carry that into something perceptually and meaningfully compelling. Which I think your image is not quite.

The light is pleasantly pearly, there is dynamism in the lean. Depending on what the rest of the area is like it might gain something from the use of a fisheye?