Commons:Photography critiques/October 2016

Cathedral of Zacatecas

Thank you in advance for any feedback you can provide Regards --Cvmontuy (talk) 00:18, 15 October 2016 (UTC)

I dabble only slightly in photography, so I wouldn't be able to advise you on technical matters, but I will say that this photo is pretty good and I think it would pass if nominated at COM:Quality images candidates. The focus is good throughout most of the picture, and only in a few places do you have blown out whites. I think one of the bigger challenges you are faced with in photographing this kind of scene is how to avoid blowing out and/or posterizing either the whites or the blacks. There are some black water towers(?) on tops of buildings that look a little posterized. The only really significant area of unsharpness I see is in the near right corner. People have different levels of tolerance for unsharp foregrounds, but you could consider cropping them, or a majority of their area, out. But overall, I find the picture solidly good. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 08:02, 19 October 2016 (UTC)

Cvmontuy I can see several improvements.

Lets start for the moment that you took the photo, the light was very harsh in moment of the picture, so the shadows are very edge. This could be better.

White balance, pay attention on white walls, they are not white, they are something close to red. You could balance that.

The image is one to 0,5 stop darker that I see as good, however you need to manage the highlights, as already mentioned. Your camera could recovery a giant amount of details in the dark areas.

Why 1/1000s and ISO 500? That choice made the picture very noisy.

I don't know if they are out of focus, or not sharp, but f/10, if you focus in the middle of this image, not in the infinity, you could maybe have everything in focus. To guarantee focus and sharpness focus stacking could work.

I made a quick manipulation, see things that I told you: [1]

-- Rodrigo Tetsuo Argenton ^m 19:58, 21 October 2016 (UTC)

Thanks a lot Ikan and Rodrigo, very usefull comments, regards — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cvmontuy (talk • contribs) 03:02, 25 October 2016 (UTC)