Dr Brian Wimborne
March 2022 - Jerusalem Old City
About the Image(s)
Taken early morning inside the Jaffa Gate, showing typical architecture of old Jerusalem.
Minimum editing in Photoshop included cropping, increased contrast and brightening.
Camera: Canon PowerShot G15
Lens: 6.1-30.5 mm
Aperture: f/2.8
Speed: 1/1600.
This round’s discussion is now closed!
11 comments posted
Welcome to Group 96, Dr. Wimborne. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do.
It's refreshing to see a nicely shot street scene amongst a bunch of landscapers. I appreciate the documentary style in which you approached this shot. It's real without any visual embellishments.
Your framing works well in that you guided my eye into the scene with the road as a leading line and with your use of the architecture. The wall on the right holds my eye in the frame and drives my attention to the center, three story building. As I view the center building, the crown in front catch my attention. I'm held there intrigued, wondering what is going on over there. It's a fun visual exploration.
I would coach you to control the highlights in your capture by stopping down a bit. However, this might be solved in LR or your preferred processing software by bringing down the Highlight and/or White sliders. Darkening the left side would hold my eye in the frame.
Thank you for joining our group. I look forward to seeing your future images. Posted: 03/03/2022 21:47:06
It's refreshing to see a nicely shot street scene amongst a bunch of landscapers. I appreciate the documentary style in which you approached this shot. It's real without any visual embellishments.
Your framing works well in that you guided my eye into the scene with the road as a leading line and with your use of the architecture. The wall on the right holds my eye in the frame and drives my attention to the center, three story building. As I view the center building, the crown in front catch my attention. I'm held there intrigued, wondering what is going on over there. It's a fun visual exploration.
I would coach you to control the highlights in your capture by stopping down a bit. However, this might be solved in LR or your preferred processing software by bringing down the Highlight and/or White sliders. Darkening the left side would hold my eye in the frame.
Thank you for joining our group. I look forward to seeing your future images. Posted: 03/03/2022 21:47:06
Dear Dan, thank you for your comments and advice. Both are appreciated. It is always of benefit to hear what people think of a photograph. No photograph is ever perfect but improvements are always possible. Posted: 03/06/2022 00:34:51
(Groups 18 & 29)
Welcome, Dr Wimborne,
This is a good travel photo and appears sharp to me. The color is excellent, and as Dan said the image is slightly overexposed. There is also a slight 1-degree port list. I think the sky is also overwhelming.
You'll need to let us know what your goals for your photography are, then we'll be able to help more specifically. Some members want competitive photos, some to hang on a wall, and others just for personal enjoyment.
Posted: 03/09/2022 02:45:06
This is a good travel photo and appears sharp to me. The color is excellent, and as Dan said the image is slightly overexposed. There is also a slight 1-degree port list. I think the sky is also overwhelming.
You'll need to let us know what your goals for your photography are, then we'll be able to help more specifically. Some members want competitive photos, some to hang on a wall, and others just for personal enjoyment.
Posted: 03/09/2022 02:45:06
Welcome, Dr. Wimborne.
I do not shoot cityscape so I do not know much about that arena. So my comments might be irrelevant. Please excuse me in that sense.
First of all, I could not get what story would you like to convey from the image. What is the theme? Maybe you might want to describe your goal in the description section next month. Then, I can reconcile it and can comment if your goal is met or not.
I am not a big fan of nearly half of the frame is covered by blue sky. It does not help me translation of the image.
Second, I feel the image is too blueish. Maybe it is because of my monitor.
finally, the building looks distorted. Is the inclination is a real or is it because of the lens, which I could not figure it out. Posted: 03/11/2022 06:28:35
I do not shoot cityscape so I do not know much about that arena. So my comments might be irrelevant. Please excuse me in that sense.
First of all, I could not get what story would you like to convey from the image. What is the theme? Maybe you might want to describe your goal in the description section next month. Then, I can reconcile it and can comment if your goal is met or not.
I am not a big fan of nearly half of the frame is covered by blue sky. It does not help me translation of the image.
Second, I feel the image is too blueish. Maybe it is because of my monitor.
finally, the building looks distorted. Is the inclination is a real or is it because of the lens, which I could not figure it out. Posted: 03/11/2022 06:28:35
Hi, I took this photograph with the intention of recording a historical site. Photographers have definite intentions of what message they wish to convey, others have none except to capture a moment in their lives. I fall into the second category. Posted: 03/14/2022 00:52:53
Hi Brian. Again, welcome to the Group 96, and thanks for joining us. I look forward to seeing your images over the coming months, as well as hearing your thoughts on the images of the Group.
Diving right in with your image this month, I'd ask, what makes this image special to you? What is the story? You mention the architecture in your description, but my eye goes immediately to the people, most likely because that is where the bright colors live in this image. I actually like those colors - for me it gives a sense of vibrant life in an old land. But many of the people are walking away, and the exception, the ones in the lower left, being the brightest of the bunch, pull my eye there and sort of leave it there.
As others have described, there is a lot of sky which is not seeming to add much, and the architecture, which is interesting, is a bit overexposed. There is a lot to look at - it is visually interesting in that sense. But then I still try to understand what message it is trying to leave me. Posted: 03/12/2022 15:48:37
Diving right in with your image this month, I'd ask, what makes this image special to you? What is the story? You mention the architecture in your description, but my eye goes immediately to the people, most likely because that is where the bright colors live in this image. I actually like those colors - for me it gives a sense of vibrant life in an old land. But many of the people are walking away, and the exception, the ones in the lower left, being the brightest of the bunch, pull my eye there and sort of leave it there.
As others have described, there is a lot of sky which is not seeming to add much, and the architecture, which is interesting, is a bit overexposed. There is a lot to look at - it is visually interesting in that sense. But then I still try to understand what message it is trying to leave me. Posted: 03/12/2022 15:48:37
Hi Robert, thanks for your comments. My intention was to record a historical site that was appealing to me. When I take a photo, rarely do I have any goal except to capture a significant moment in my life.
I am quite new to landscape/streetscape photography. For the past decade I specialised in fine art nudes, solely to reproduce images of human beauty, but Covid put an end to that.
So now my photography is back to the drawing board. Posted: 03/14/2022 01:02:11
I am quite new to landscape/streetscape photography. For the past decade I specialised in fine art nudes, solely to reproduce images of human beauty, but Covid put an end to that.
So now my photography is back to the drawing board. Posted: 03/14/2022 01:02:11
Hi Brian
Welcome, I am happy that you have joined us. I have never travelled to this area, so I am enjoying the image as a window to an area I have not travelled. I like the look of the old buildings on the left and wonder if another point of view would make them the focal point of the image. While the buildings on both sides and the road are leading the eye to the center of the image, I am left without a focal point to the image. Do you have any images from other points of view that show the unique windows and balconies from the front? I would love to see them. Posted: 03/13/2022 02:56:42
Welcome, I am happy that you have joined us. I have never travelled to this area, so I am enjoying the image as a window to an area I have not travelled. I like the look of the old buildings on the left and wonder if another point of view would make them the focal point of the image. While the buildings on both sides and the road are leading the eye to the center of the image, I am left without a focal point to the image. Do you have any images from other points of view that show the unique windows and balconies from the front? I would love to see them. Posted: 03/13/2022 02:56:42
Hi Cheryl, thank you for your comments. You would enjoy the wonderland of Israel.
I am new to landscape/streetscape photography, having spent the last decade focussing on artistic nude photography where the focal point of the image was obvious.
However, I wonder whether landscapes and street photographs always need a focal point or whether the entire image is all that is needed. In saying this I am thinking of great artists of the past such as Constable and Pizzaro. I doubt whether anyone would have asked for the focal point.
It is good to be in touch with you. Posted: 03/14/2022 01:31:33
I am new to landscape/streetscape photography, having spent the last decade focussing on artistic nude photography where the focal point of the image was obvious.
However, I wonder whether landscapes and street photographs always need a focal point or whether the entire image is all that is needed. In saying this I am thinking of great artists of the past such as Constable and Pizzaro. I doubt whether anyone would have asked for the focal point.
It is good to be in touch with you. Posted: 03/14/2022 01:31:33
(Groups 15 & 95)
Hello Brian, Knowing your goal helps to appreciate the street scene and the historical monuments. I travel quite a bit and I am always struggling on how to reconcile capturing a Moment to remember and recording an image that also meets some technical standards. Also hard for me to know when to include people or not. I agree with others on overexposure of buildings that can be corrected. I do think that by cropping the left side a bit, you can take out the street signal and the red shirt that is a bit distracting from the architecture of the buildings. Looking forward to seeing more of your Moments. Posted: 03/28/2022 22:27:52
Dear Gloria, thank you for your comments. I appreciate what you say.
I am often caught between recording a scene exactly as it is, and improving it by editing. This is a problem I have yet to resolve. However, Bob Wills gave me some good advice on creating a picture that improves the camera's image.
Good wishes,
Brian Posted: 03/28/2022 23:37:29
I am often caught between recording a scene exactly as it is, and improving it by editing. This is a problem I have yet to resolve. However, Bob Wills gave me some good advice on creating a picture that improves the camera's image.
Good wishes,
Brian Posted: 03/28/2022 23:37:29