Cloisters

[Monomania]

[colinb]

Great picture  but a bit less frame and more of it would be nice?

[Korky]

I love the image - very nicely composed and processed and a great contemplative look on the man's face.

I tend to agree with Colin re the presentation , though. For me it tends to detract from the image just a little.

Nice work all the same!

Korky

[ChrisLumix]

Really good picture. I was havering about the frame but in the end decided I liked it. I agree the whole picture should be bigger though - we've got 500k to play with.

[Monomania]

Thanks for the kind comments, everyone. I agree about the border - it looks fine when seen full screen, but a bit overpowering on the forum. The frame size was deliberate as I wanted to isolate and emphasize the subject. Ah well, back to the drawing board (FastStone, anyway!)

[EdwardL]

You don't have to agree to this at all but if it was my image I'd be tempted to burn the bottom of the image and lighten the subject area a little more.  A sort of 30 second affair in Photoshop or similar software.  I feel the foreground is a little too bright compared to the rest of the image and taking too much limelight (pardon the pun) from the man.  And as a small addition, if you black out the front or rear bright strips you have two good Fibonacci numbers working there.  The strips of 3 and 8 sets of them.

Composition wise it's very strong and it makes me think of a pianist sat by a piano with the shapes on the ground resembling a keyboard.  Cracking shot and well seen.  I like it, especially with the dark and mysterious background.

The more I look at this, the more I like it - great work!

[Guest]

My eye is drawn to the white "mount" try a black one. I think it works better. Nice otherwise.