Monastic Tower

[MarieV]

Still practising with PP and appreciate feedback with this image. I just thought I would capture this landmark tower from a different approach!

[Kodiak]

Still practising with PP and appreciate feedback with this image.

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Hello Marie,

This shot is very interesting and playful. A great feature of this take is the
layering. The three layers: the stones, the wall, and the tower are the basic
construction of the frame. However, the first two are not "easy to read" at
first glance because they are too close to each other… you couldn't much
about it when the photograph was taken —except to work with the DoF
which is not the option you have chosen.

In this case, a pp adjustment would be more necessary in B&W since colours
are not playing a possible role in the separation. A rather simple way out of
this is to give different rendition attributes to create a visual separation to the
conflicting elements. As example here, I adjusted the stones and the tower
the same way and left the wall as is.

This is in no way a rendition suggestion but a possible approach suggestion
to increase the separation!

There are many ways to achieve a separation and the chosen one will depend
on the shot itself. Personally, I never found a magic formula that could be applied
to all eventual cases.

[Polar01]

Marie very nice location and interesting subject.
Kodiak, I see what you mean by the separation of the three elements, work each one slightly different so each stands our from the other. I will try to keep this in mind for the future.

Cheers: Allan

[MarieV]

Hello Kodiak,

Often I look at a scene in terms of providing an 'abstract' interpretation of how I see it and the result doesn't always convey the main subject. You have certainly added another dimension on how I should interpret a scene to provide a visual separation in both capturing the image and in PP. I can immediately see how your edit has changed to give the tower a certain DoF that was missing in my rendition and thank you again for your invaluable lessons and time taken to assist me.

[Wavelength]

Very nice

[Kodiak]

…thank you again for your invaluable lessons and time taken to assist me.

…I will try to keep this in mind for the future…

Thank you Marie and Allan, these comments are really rewarding!

[MarieV]

Thank you Allan and Nandakumar.

[ShaneS]

Very nicely seen Marie and a challenge to capture and process well for sure. It would be fun to explore this area with the concept of articulating the layers better in camera as suggested by Kodiak.

[MarieV]

Thank you Shane and I do indeed intend to revisit this monastic site in an attempt at rendering my images to achieve Kodiak's suggestions.