Victorian House and Garden

[casil403]

I shot this house and garden this evening with early evening sun. Sorry it's so small...the next size up reduced the image to 51kb from 271kb so I had to pick a smaller size. I also HDR'd (using 6 different photos) it in PP...any thoughts or comments?
Much appreciated as always.

[joaoandreqff]

I really like the composition, although it isn't quite straight. Also, I don't like very much of that over saturated look some HDR images have, but that's a purely personal preference.

[AntZ]

I like it. Nice composition. It could maybe do with a bit more head room over the tree, and the whole image seems a bit bright on my screen.
I'm not sure if joaoandreqff was suggesting your shot was oversaturated or just a comment on oversaturated HDR in general, but for me you could go a bit further with saturation in the building and the sky. There also seems to be some banding in the sky probably caused by compression? It also looks like there is a spot above the apex of the roof that could be cloned out.

As for being limited by the file size limit of the forum, it is easy to use flickr or picassa. Both are free. I have a "throw away" picassa account which I use.

[Barefoot]

AntZ nailed it. Open a free account somewhere for the sole purpose of posting images here. I’m using a Photobucket account and it’s as easy as pie to get your images linked to this site no matter what size they are. I like Photobucket because it doesn’t require you to link back to their site like some of the others do. I’m sure we could walk you through the steps.

By the way, nice image. Maybe a little more room at the top?

[Marko]

I like how the shadowed tones are open and I like this more subtle HDR.

[casil403]

Thanks everyone for the catches and comments!
I have tried linking shots to my flickr account but I'm having a heck of a time trying to figure out how to link with the correct codes and stuff. Raiven made some suggestions on how to do it a while back but I tried and couldn't figure it out. I am not the most computer savvy when it comes to using code and stuff like that....

[AntZ]

The easiest way I have discovered to post images is to right click on the image I want to post, pick properties, select the Address(URL) in the dialog box and post that as the image address. It works for all jpeg/gif images on all sites. OK it is not to the letter of user agreement on Flickr. I tried to use the provided html from Flickr, but it doesn't work. Hope that helps.