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Taken at Valley Forge, PA
Both on a tripod.
outside shot
1/20 sec f32 ISO 400inside shot
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I like the second picture! I have never done any architectural photography, so I don’t have any voice in the matter, but I really like it.
The first one seems a bit over-processed to me. If you look closely at the edges of the building you can see the “halo” effect which often indicates too much “pushing”.
It looks to me like the “Clarity” slider in Lightroom was pushed to the right as far as it would go. Clarity adds sharpening as well, so the whole thing looks over-sharpened.
My recommendation would be to use the sharpening sliders in the ‘Detail’ pane of the Develop module for sharpening, and slide the ‘Masking’ slider up to about 50 or so. That would selectively sharpen the edges in the picture instead of applying sharpening to everything. Sharpening everything can create the appearance of noise when there wasn’t any to begin with!
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Looks like a fun place to shoot.
B&W image: it’s artistic, and there’s nice contrast in the stone, but the sky indicates that there is some very obvious processing going on. Whatever you did to the image, the halos on the right side of the building and along the roof on the left look very artificial. The extreme vignette also makes the clouds (which are already blown out) look an odd gray. I would like to see the apex of the roof, too. I would experiment with a vertical shot.
Interior image: love the warm tones. If there was any way to go wider than 24mm, I would have done it. Perhaps lowering yourself closer to the floor, to get more in the frame if going wider wasn’t an option. There’s one major thing that would make this shot better. Notice the main wooden beams arching across the roof; the one closest to the top of the frame is cut off; if that beam in it’s entirety had been included in the frame (cropping the top of th picture right at it’s apex) then it would keep the eye in the frame and confirm the subtle pattern of beams arching across the ceiling.
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