Recent effort at being artistic! 56k beware

[menthel]

I went to paris this weekend and took lots of nice touristy snaps. However an opportunity came up at la defence, so tell me what you think!

[noah]

what a crazy building!! nice pic imo it could do with a little more contrast tho.

[menthel]

La defence is full of crazy buildings, all in a row and lots of 'artistic' french sculpture. May play with photoin pjotoshop to see what i can do.

[Garion]

Has it had any edits done to it or is that the raw image?

[menthel]

Its as it comes . Only the fact that it is a jpeg. I may post some of the photos from inside notre dame where i used my wife as a camera steadying device later!

[Garion]

For a raw image (raw meaning unaltered straight from cam not a raw pic file)... pretty good

Have done some quick tweaks myself... cos i like to test myself a bit...

my take on it can be seen at

Tower1 Copy.jpg

might look a bit blue on some screens tho...depending on how well your colour calibration is...

[menthel]

Here it is after a little fiddle. I am still a bit of a PS virgin, so be kind!

[Garion]

Personally id say the brightness needs to come up a bit...otherwise looking good

[SilentDeath]

I think they're all good, but the yellow box stands out a lot on the last one

Cleaning the windows on that must cost a LOT... I dont like french buildings.. looks like its going to fall down...

[Yohji]

That second version looks great, my photoshop isn't working atm, so I've been using ImageReady, still does the job though.

[shiato storm]

cool. making the building stand out against the sky. nice work for early days in PS

[menthel]

Thanks for all the kind comments! It was taken with a 300d with the stock lens. I haven't got round to taking out my telephoto yet as it is a bit unwieldy for foreign travel. However when the weather cheers up I may take myself over to Wimbledon common to try and snap some wildlife and whatever else crosses my path.

[Allen]

I like the original picture, very moody. Fantastic building too.