A few pointers.......

[bournemouthmike]

Hi I was wondering what you guys thought of this shot
Corfe Castle from the hill side | Flickr - Photo Sharing!

It was taken just after sunrise and i didnt know how long I had until the mist cleared.

 

[bournemouthmike]

 

[deeky]

From what I can see in the smaller size, I like set up. I would crop some from the left and I would like a little more clarity in the ruins(?). It's a good start - a shot I'm not going to find anywhere around here.

 

[eswebster]

very cool. Agree with Deeky throw the ruins on the left side of the rule of thirds in the crop and it will be a better image. Well done.

 

[amolitor]

Nice. Good ruins, good light, good mist. Well seen, well shot.

There's a few things at the bottom of the frame that bother me. A little branch, which you should probably just clone out (if you had more stuff there, you might leave it in to give a sense of context, but a single branch just looks like an accident, dump it). There's also some shapes in the mist, which might be hills? trees? I can't tell the scale. I would either do a curves adjustment to this area to make them more obvious, creating a more direct sense of unknown objects lurking below in the mist, OR I would got the opposite way and push them down a little further into the mist. Right now they're sort of betwixt and between, to my eyes.

The sky is also a little.. something. I would experiment with pushing the saturation both up and down (to create a punchier blue, and a less punchy blue) to see if there was something I liked more. Maybe some curves adjustments here as well. I know we're looking at sky through mist, but it's somehow unsatisfying.

 

[deeky]

For the sake of good discussion, here's a quick edit I worked up. Darkened the ruins then masked. And a crop. Vertically the ruins are about cenetered, but for some reason it works for me here.

Take it for what it's worth:


8481218361_91e6a89600_oa by breckmiller, on Flickr

And, because it's what I do, here's a quick b&w:


8481218361_91e6a89600_ob by breckmiller, on Flickr

 

[bournemouthmike]

Thanks that, really helpful. I'm ashamed to say I didnt notice the twig in the shot untill i'd set it as a backdrop on my work pc. I'm going to blame viewing it on a laptop for that! And that crop makes much neater viewing, It removes some of the plane trials too. thanks for taking the time to show me.

 

[Trblmkr]

Honestly, I think the black and white would look better with more contrast in the sky. Love the coposition though. Great shot.