Hey Raynie,

Just jumping in with some thoughts, hope you don't mind ...

Being bold here, as I have caught your last few uploads ("Just Around the Riverbend", "The Natural Bridge", for example ... although I do enjoy both very much and the extent of overexposure is not to the degree of your photo here) ... to my eyes it would appear that you were shooting in challenging lighting conditions.

And/or looking back into the source of light on a couple. So ...

Need to make some adjustment if the time of day or your opportunities lie outside that of some more friendly lighting.

Exposure compensation.

/\ This is a lil' more indepth look at the subject matter. However, I am sure that somewhere in your camera's manual, if not online ... this functionality/option exists for you.

In short, employ the option and under-expose. Much easier to correct afterwards in an image editor/software, if need be, then that of an over-exposed photo.


Locking your exposure before depressing the shutter button.

/\ Very brief explanantion. Just an f.y.i., in case you were unawares. (Google or your camera's manual are your friend. ;o) )


Make adjustments and I think you could elevate your image. As the some of the details are lost in the shadows, simply put.

Hope you don't mind me conversing on your image's page with you ... and with both feet planted where they are usually found.


Keep shooting and happy shooting. :o)

Very lovely photo of the building,nice colors and pleasant sky,the clarity is good.

@ Les, thanks for the links... :)

Impressive perspective and composition, Raynie.

Some cameras also have 'bracket' shooting capabilities, recording an image one stop up and 1 stop down from the normal setting (3 frames total) for this type of manipulation. A poor man's HDR, so to speak. Then it's off to the image editor...

Thanks for posting this.

- Mike

Good framework, beautiful photo .... good work

It is an interesting building and well worth shooting. In shooting architecture, unless you are going for radically tilted angles, the lines being perfectly square is essential, most people can "feel" even one or two degrees of tilt when they look at a photo, because we see square buildings all our lives, it's become instinctive. I tilt shots in the field constantly and depend on The Gimp (plenty of other free software out there will do the job) to straighten things out later. I tend to tilt to the left, something to do with how I hold my camera in my left hand. Les already spoke to the exposure. I like the low angle you adopted, it makes the pointed tops of the gate posts echo the tops of the large and small upper story windows, a nice symmetry.
Mikel.

The exposure and perspective corrections are relatively minor, and fairly easily remedied. The main distraction is the phone or power line running through the trees, and should be cloned over or removed with "Wire Pilot"