COMMENTS:

Mark Aksoy	An interesting composition.  The columns of the church are well-suited to the vertical format and the pigeons/pigeon feeder are balanced by the clock and rosette window at top. The church wall also has eye-catching architectural elements.  I think the rosette is too close to the upper left corner - putting back a little more space around it would strengthen the image.
Cliff Banks	You certainly like your visits to Europe. This is a nicely composed scene of Vienna, and you have done well to alleviate the tourists. I think the image might be made better by correcting the verticals, and have you tried using the “luminance” filter in Image Adjust>Match Color for those occasions when the lighting is a little flat.
Bob Altman	The image seems out of focus. The person in the foreground is lost in comparison to the building. It was a good effort to give it a point of reference but it didn't work. I do like the angle used. More saturation may have helped bring out some of the building thereby alleviating some of the bland ness of the shot.
Bob Barley	Interesting image, and much like Mark's church image recently. Good contrast between the large building and the little person feeding the birds. As you mentioned, removing the tourists dictated the composition. The viewer's eye goes directly to the red cap which is the interest and action in the scene. No suggestions.
Rene Ross
Margaret Boike	I love the red hat, especially against all the very nice neutral colors of the rest of the image! I think it really draws the viewer in. The building leans in to the right, and I find that unsettling. I think the image would look better if the perspective were fixed, which will probably cause the largest window to be cut off a bit. But, I think the image would look better if some of the top were cropped off, including both windows. There's enough going on in the bottom half to make for a very nice image, seems to me.
Rich Krebs	Nice image. Not sure, but the column looks off vertical some and the bricks seem soft. Would it have worked if you had just taken the shot above the first cross bar?

Member Bio

Rene Ross - Biography ikudbne1@aol.com     Though technically I am new, I feel like I have been a member of PSA my entire life... for as far back as I can remember, my father (Walter Ross a +40 year member) took me along with him to all his camera club outings and meetings; I liked looking at the pictures! When I was old enough to hold a camera and reach the "on" button on the enlarger, I started entering club competitions; even beat pop out a time or two ;)  I have been to a few of the yearly PSA conventions in various parts of the country, going on various photo excursions and taking a few of the composition/style classes.     About 10 years ago, I moved from Chicago to So.Cal.  Unfortunately, with that move I lost access to pop's Nikons and darkroom!  And as it tends to do, life invariably intercedes and my development as a professional Registered Nurse in a Neonatal Intensive Care took over much of my extra time. Photography got pushed into the background.     When digital started to become commonplace, I was able to get back into the 'darkroom' and began taking pictures for reasons other than mere vacation documentation. I started looking at people, objects and landscapes again as I did as a child, with wonder and awe and the need to capture those perfect moments on 'film'. While computers are a favorite pastime of mine, I know there is a great deal more I can learn, so I decided it was time to jump back into the PSA realm... this time with my own camera in hand.