POTM [07/06] Selfridges building, Birmingham

Here's my second entry for this month...



Constructive criticism welcomed and appreciated.

Shot
Selfridges building in Birmingham

Settings
350D - EF-S 10-22mm - RAW - f8 - 1/3200 - ISO100 - 10mm

Post-Processing
Nothing really, just levels tweak in Aperture

 

Loving the entry by DrPepper

 

Pepper: Love that Bull Ring shot. Very nice. The one you chose to enter is the better of the two (looking at your Flickr).

 

love your entry J-Pepper, looks vibrant and the wide angle works perfectly.

 

Thanks guys.
That Bull Ring shot has probably been done to death but it's one I needed to take for myself

And I thought I recognised those buildings in Manchester, not far from China Town right? I was up there taking photos last Thursday too but failing light and not enough time meant I didn't get any decent architecture shots.

 

J-Pepper: I enjoy the point of view of your second photo, but the building's edge is too close to the center of the frame for my taste. I know that rules are meant to be broken, but in this case I feel like the building and sky are competing within the image.

-monkey

 

Love that image j-pepper. my only criticism would be that 1024 is too long for the longest edge, and there's too much compression going on.

I find it interesting how even though the depth of field is small, you can't really tell. did you try the same shot at f/22?

 

I thought that as well, so I checked the EXIF - says f8 (and 1/320 as well)

 

@ Supermonkey: I know what you mean looking at it now but when I was taken it I wasn't thinking much of the rules (shh! don't tell ). I wanted more emphasis on the building but I didn't want the sky to over power the composition. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't... i'll give it another go when i'm back up in Birmingham and see what a difference it'll make.

@ olv and Mister_Tad: Yeah, it was taken a f8 because I figured it'll be sharp enough but I wanted to try and achieve some depth of field in the composition. But, to be really honest, the way it turned out in this photo was not what I was expecting and actually a better shot. I didn't use f22 because I didn't want every one of those silver circle things on the building to be too pin sharp, I just figured it wouldn't be pleasing to the eye that way.
But saying that, i'm going to give it another go because admittedly, I didn't even bother using f22 so I can't really comment on whether it would be a better photo.

Thanks for the C&C though guys and keep 'em coming

 

F/8 makes more sense. order has been restored to my world.

 

I need to retake mine. I could have avoided needing to go again by taking a few different shots to see.
Then again, it is fun

And very nice. Do you have a normal shot of the building?

 

Yeah, I have that problem too in that i'm too selective of my shots. I picture a shot and take a few (usually bracketed as well) and then move on. I've tried, but then I just feel weird for filling up my CF card with crap.
But then I find it's a good thing as I only ever use 1GB card; it means I have to be creative and selective and not take photos of crap.

I'm still not used to the 'take as many shots as you can' style of shooting.

Search for Selfridges in google, it should be easy to find, it's a really weird and distinct building but after a while it just becomes part of the background.

But then again, i'm finding that now i'm always 'hunting' for shots, and I see a lot of genuinely interesting things and perspectives that I would never have given a second thought/notice to before.

 

when you just look at the section of the shot without the sky (ignore the skly or zoom to the building) it looks like CG.

Might just be me though

 

Yeah, i've had another comment on this photo where some said it looks almost fake!

 

Photo's broken?

 

Same

 

Thanks for reminding me... I was using the ftp server of an old ISP (I switched ISP a year back but I still could access their ftp server.. I had 1GB of free storage )

I'll get it fixed right away.