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Matthijs Bettman's picture

Marriot hotel in Rotterdam (Feedback and Criticism welcome)

Hi everyone!

Can I get some feedback on this shot? I'm trying to do something new (architectural photography) and I'm a struggling to get good images for my standard and with this shot I was trying to get a bit of mysterious feel, like Gotham City (Yeah, Batman!).

Did I succeed?

Thanks in advance!

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Interesting shot - remember that symmetry is very important when working on single point perspectives like this. it looks like its a degree or so off. I wonder what it would look like if there was a little more brightness coming in off of the windows. would it still look kind of dark and foreboding? regardless, keep it up!

Yes, thanks for you comment! I saw that when, looking at it in LR.

The building looks off a bit. Also before criticizing its important for your audience to know what was the goal of this image. Like was it commercial image or just a travel photography? For example as a Marriott photographer I can say that Marriott marketing dep definitely won't accept this image, because the color tones gives negative feelings likein horor movies ) but for travel photography it's an interesting image.

It wasn't an commercial image, but a travel image like you said.
Yeah, the color is a bit 'dark', but that was on purpose because the color was terrible in the original image.
But you're an photographer for Marriott? Nice!

Gotham City is interesting, the question is do you want to make art or do you want to make money. The late great David Collins said the person with the check book is always right.