Exterior Critique

[John_Kelley]

Here is an exterior shot I did for a client and my boss pretty mush hates it when its printed out.Is there any way you can get screen quality on the printer?Should I lighten the image all together?

[John_Kelley]

Haha is there any way I can post a good quality picture of my shot because the one I just posted looks horrible.

[retire45]

Print Screen.. Paste to Paint.. Save as Jpg or PNG.. get closer to 100k file size..

[John_Kelley]

OKay hears a better one

[retire45]

Now make it bigger<g>.. also turn on some lights.. kinda dark..

[Larry Kumpost]

With the size of the pixels it looks like you enlarged a smaller image or thumbnail. You still have a bit more room for the maximum file size allowed here. Try a bigger image and it the file is too big just zip it.

[deaconjj]

Are you printing hi-res on glossy paper? Could help.

BTW, Very, very nice look there... my only comment is that the entry is understated (entering under a gable sidewall, vs end), with a sweet turret roof hidden behind...

[retire45]

Always great having trees behind the Camera but I think you have too many.. really darkening things.. or raise the Sun angle?.. Hurry up John..

[John_Kelley]

My zipped file is 218MB!!!

[John_Kelley]

FINALLY!sorry for the delay

[Larry Kumpost]

I agree with the comments about too much shadow. If the foreground trees actually represent an existing condition you should adjust the entire image to make it lighter. You might also play with different sun angles to get less shadow on the building.

Also agree that test prints on normal paper will look pretty bad. You need to print on photo paper or... I found a 8 1/2x11 "premimum gloss, inkjet, presentation paper" (yes all lower case letters on the package) at Office Depot that works well and is not as expensive as photo paper.

[Larry Kumpost]

My zipped file is 218MB!!!

Then something went wrong...somewhere. How big is the original image file?

[John_Kelley]

I got it up now. I just posted the zipped file called lot14

[Larry Kumpost]

FINALLY!sorry for the delay

OK much better image. Same comments as before with one addition:

I like the branch in the forground, it helps frame the house. The resolution of the image for that tree is not, however, good enough for viewing that close. You can see the pixels and that spoils the image. Try resizing and repositioning it or try another tree image.

I should add that you did a very good job with the overall composition. Fix the sahdows and the branch thing and your home free.

[retire45]

That tower is really dominating... The little window in it makes me feel there's an unfriendly Guard up there..