Church

[TC]

my first attempt at churches. C&C please, thanks

[PiroStitch]

Lovely exposure and composition. Might want to either crop or clone out the leaves over hanging the top and top left corner as it doesn't do much in terms of providing sense of perspective and scale.

[zafra52]

I agree entirely with PiroStitch. It is a lovely picture and I would get rid of those leaves.

[TC]

thanks, cropped the photo.

[zafra52]

I think this is better, don't you? That foliage did not do anything for the image.

[Bubby]

Agreed with zafra. No more annoying leaves

[Mitchell]

Just to play devils advocate - I think I would prefer the picture with more leaves. This foreground texture provides a nice perspective, but there are only enough leaves to slightly annoy rather than to frame. If there were enough leaves a leaf frame might be quite nice...
Just another thought

[TC]

many thanks ppls.

[Matt. K]

A nun walking past in the foreground and you would have a masterpiece.

[TC]

Thanks everyone.
I don't suppose there is any nuns here?

[gstark]

Thanks everyone.
I don't suppose there is any nuns here?

Nun, to my knowledge.


A couple of thoughts on this image.

On the trees framing the image ... what Mitchell has said is spot on: if you could include more of the branches as a means of framing the image, that would be good. In the first image there's not enough to frame, but there's enough to distract.

But the concrete driveway is what bothers me in this image, and it strikes me that perhaps there may have been a better angle from which to shoot this image and from which the concrete may not have been as obvious as it is.

[Oz_Beachside]

But the concrete driveway is what bothers me in this image, and it strikes me that perhaps there may have been a better angle from which to shoot this image and from which the concrete may not have been as obvious as it is.

this is what I noticed first too, and couldnt take my eyes away from it. I love the textures of old stone, and this clashes.

having said that, we sometimes capture somehting we like, with a few niggling elements. if you are into editing, perhaps consider darkening the driveway, making it less prominant (burn, or paint over at say 10% opacity).

if I was doing that, I'd brush over the red car too. lastly, in your recent crop, there is a telegraph pole camera right, crop it if you can.