Originally posted by icywarm first off... I hate you... just putting that out there... I have just literary spent the last 2 hours talking myself out of a sigma 10-20... and I figure to suppress my LBA I'll go critic some photos and I bet I will not even care what lens they use... first one! Bam... oh that's nice and wide! DARN IT!
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onto the photo
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Interesting place you found there... and I think you took the right approach to capturing it with the long exposure... but two little things... with arch photos on this grand of scale I think you need to be bang on the money with having everything square and in the middle... however.. I think you are off to the right in your first photo... I can see 5ish windows on the left at the top and only 4 on the right... which carries through the whole photo twisting/skewing everything just a bit.
secondly with long exposure sometimes you need to wait at your spot for hours for just the right person to come along and form a subject... in your case... i think the opposite is true... the person up close on the right does nothing for the image... maybe a quick retake once she was gone would be good...
Everything else is neat and fine... i like the stars from the f27... colours are pleasing... well done... 4/5
Thanks a lot for your comments and critics.
Suleymaniye is on of the most famous ones in Istanbul. Its been closed for visit for almost 2.5 years. Its been 3 weeks or maybe 1 month since they reopened it for visits. Its impossible to find this mosque empty. Maybe you will'be able to find it empty at 8 am ? However tourists sometimes are so impolite. They saw me trying to take photo but still they tend to get in the middle of the photo. I've tried a lot to find a moment to get clear photo but once someone sees me taking photo he get closer to me and trying the same photo. Thats why I was unable to get exactly in middle and with good exposure.
Well, I'll take it as homework. I hope next week I will share with you a better photo.
Here is one another.
Last edited by AlexanderMayorov; 12-10-2010 at 04:09 AM.
Reason: addition of photo