Look at this building!

[thebasedsloth]

Untitled by TheBasedSloth, on Flickr

CRITIQUE ME SO I CAN SHOW OFF MY EGO AND DISAGREE WITH EVERYTHING YOU SAY.
No but really.. thoughts?

 

[nycphotography]

great color, clarity.... my only nit to pick would be the receding perspective.

too bad you couldn't get just a wee bit wider and then straighten the perspective in PS.

 

[tirediron]

This might be worth re-shooting as a panorama!

 

[ceeboy14]

Color seems a bit oversaturated...just a little but it's really in your face color...I just took a closer look in Flickr and you have blues in your bricks, trees, stone...pretty much everywhere. Blue, especially a cobalt blue is one of those colors where a little goes a long-long-long way.

 

[pharmakon]

Tasteful tone mapping without overdoing it. The perspective distortion is a little bit bothersome to me as well.

 

[DarkShadow]

Looking at flicker the blue does seem to be on some parts of the brick. Looking at the original size on flicker I think you may have went a little heavy on sharpen there is lots of crinkles.The building is stunning.

 

[thebasedsloth]

Thanks for the replies, everyone! I don't take pictures like this often so i appreciate all your replies!
I didnt look that closely at it, but it is a bit oversaturated. I can agree with that.
As for the sharpening, i dont think i sharpened it that much so but i guess its still possible for it too be too much!
Perspective distortion; y'all lost me! I know what it is, and how to prevent it next time, but i dont see how its a problem here. I'm not saying its not a problem, i just would like someone to explain what they mean when they said receding perspective?
This was a circular building, in case you didnt know

 

[nycphotography]

The sides slant in from bottom to top. unless it was a cone, that is perspective distortion.

You can fix it using PS (skew/perspective).

Except if you straighten it, the sides will end up being cropped at the edges of the frame.

I did this tutorial a while back... and the first step is fixing the perspective skew. imagine just stretching the top of the frame until the walls are vertical.

And in this thread I stretched the bottom, but same idea. Just look at the door on the right in the before and after and you'll see what I mean.

 

[ceeboy14]

Didn't see NYC's post before I did this...his probably works as well, better, whatever. There are lots of ways to correct keystone.

 

[Murray Bloom]

The problem with doing as Ceeboy suggests is that there is now an awful lot that must be either cloned or painted in in the lower corners. That being said, I don't mind the convergence in this image. I just wish it was framed a bit wider to have captured the full base of the building.

 

[thebasedsloth]

Both editing tools can be found in the Edit menu on any CS series (I think) or, I also believe in LR and likely Gimp.

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In the second image, using the perspective tool, I also toned down the blues a bit.

My photos are NOT OK to edit.
But thanks for the effort anyway!

 

[ceeboy14]

It wasn't an edit per se, more an instruction...sorry for the faux pas. I can assure you it won't happen again.

 

[BlueCobalt]

great color, clarity.... my only nit to pick would be the receding perspective.

too bad you couldn't get just a wee bit wider and then straighten the perspective in PS.

agreed