your comments please

[m1cdq]

I took this while on holiday in turkey

[cosmicma]

the framings not bad but the biggest distraction is the sun it takes away what the photo is all about
the other problem as you can see is shooting into the sun shadows the forground and it looks like a considerable amount of lightening has had to be used to bring back some of the detail giving the photo a washed out appearence

my advice would either use a graduated filter for this kind of shot to balance the exposure or wait untill the sun had gone behind a cloud ( if possible )
or try to get the sun behind you but this can cause other problems but the results should turn out better

hope this can be of use to you and is only my opinion from what i can see there are loads of techniques to get the desired effects when faced with circumstances like the photo above such as taking 2 photos one to expose the building correctly and another to expose the sky and then merging them together in photoshop or similar software

[nickanderson]

Were you trying to get a silhouette? Moving to the left of the frame could have given an interesting effect. Its hard to see just how big the sun was in all that glow. It may have been possilble to hide the actual 'body' of the sun behind the top of the tower, making the tower appear to have a radiant glow. You would also need to use a small aperture (bigger F number) for best results. Again, just some ideas to toy with next time you are snapping around. Have fun

[chris-p]

I agree with some of the comments made above but not all. For me, the sun isn't a distraction, it's the point of the shot.

To me, this a location and setup screaming for HDR. I agree with cosmicma about the foreground looking washed out and it would be nice to see some more tonal range in the clouds. Obviously you can't go back and shoot it again whenever you want but it might be worth trying a DRI process on it (if you shot in RAW)

[nickanderson]

You may well have been able to HDR this shot but I think some of the features, such as the lorries, may have been more of a distraction if they were made more visable.

[chris-p]

Originally Posted by nickanderson

You may well have been able to HDR this shot but I think some of the features, such as the lorries, may have been more of a distraction if they were made more visable.

Thats true but the inherent advantage in HDR is the fact that you can easily adjust for that sort of problem.

[nickanderson]

Originally Posted by chris-p

Thats true but the inherent advantage in HDR is the fact that you can easily adjust for that sort of problem.

How does an increased dynamic range help solve problems caused by distracting objects such as lorries in the foreground of the image?

[chris-p]

The increased dynamic and tonal ranges give you more flexibility to adjust your image (when it's 16 bit) without introducing unwanted artefacts.

[nickanderson]

Yeah but what about those lorries?

[m1cdq]

The photo was taken in Side (pronounced See-day) Turkey
I would have loved to have had a different position but due to surrounding trees and builings this was the best position I could get. to go to either my left or right and shot would have been totally blocked could not go back further because of wall and could not move forward because of ruddy great big hole on building site.S i tried to get the best i could with a bad position. but thanks for the comments