Water Tower

[TonyT]

This is the water tower at Invercargill NZ.

[Mr Darcy]

Nice capture Tony.

However it looks like it is falling backwards to me. And that, for me, spoils the image.
Perhaps a little perspective control wouldn't go astray on this one.
I forget the technical term, but make the sides of the tower parallel using a transform tool. There is something to do it in most photo editing suites. Even the ones that are bundled free with cameras.

[ozimax]

This is a really good photo, nothwithstanding the backwards "lean".

[Matt. K]

I agree with Greg. This image has some wonderful elements...the colours alone are just beautiful....but the perspective , caused by the very wide angle lens, is a little discerning. You will always get this kind of distortion if you fail to keep the back of the camera parallel to the subject. Often, it can't be avoided. If you have a copy of Photoshop then 'EDIT' TRANSFORM/PERSPECTIVE' will reduce the effect.
Nevertheless, may still good enough for a POTW award...

[zafra52]

I am not sure if the leaning backwards was intentional or not, but I like the contrasting colours. I also think that a portrait, rather than landscape, would perhaps improve this photo.

[gstark]

There is something else about this image that I find attracts me to it.

The foreground appears to be a fine, level grassed area, but where there's the areas to the sides of the tower, there are also some very wide, leading lines, that draw us back in to towards the tower.

And then there's the tree on the rh side ...

[Matt. K]

You're right Gary. The composition is rather interesting, lines leading the eye to the subject and the shape of the tree on the right mimics the shape of the dome. That provides a subtle link to the subject. Even the shape of the clouds reinforce the shape of the ground and channel the eye to the subject. It seems to get better the longer you look, but then that's probably the case for most photographs. And deep reds bouncing off greens and blues is also a good combination.

[TonyT]

Yes it is leaning back. I shot this with the 16-35 lens @16 and used perspective control to try and pull it forward a bit.I used this lens to get the tree in the shot.
This is the first time, I shot a building with it and was a bit of a shock when I first seen the shot on the laptop but I still liked the structure and the colour.
The lens is really sharp corner to corner but not ideal for this type of shot. So next time another lens and pano.
By the way Sue dislikes it so thanks for the comments.

[gstark]

By the way Sue dislikes it

Which means we're all in deep shit.