Portmarine

I had a little walk around the new Portmarine development in Portishead on Saturday morning. The array of public art adds a lot of interest to this new development. C&C welcome as always..

They're all interesting and well composed ... Best for me are the last two with that excellent installation. I like your low viewpoints and leading lines through to the more distant buildings.

No 1 is a challenge ... Were you not able to reduce the contrast between sky and shadow areas a bit more? I'd have thought the file would take a bit more highlight reduction on the sky and a shadow boost in the darkest areas around the buildings. Also I would try and pull out the blue cast on some of the white shadow surfaces, such as on the facade of the right hand building, but increasing the luminance at the same time on that channel to bring in good white. It would be interesting to see if these ideas work, if of course you agree its needed!

But its a very attractive place and beautifully photographed.

3 and 4 are my preferences in there - for me, the random person in the first one is a bit jarring, and in the last one the gates just behind the pillars get in the way a bit. Not much you can do about some of these things - developers don't seem to consider where they stick things to ruin an otherwise perfectly good image

4 might look quite nice as a high contrast monochrome image.