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The sun and the stairs

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The sun and the stairs

Postby Steffen on Thu Feb 08, 2007 10:46 pm

Just a simple shot taken at Bateau Bay beach. I liked the way the sun tried to break up the stair pattern...

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Postby Bindii on Fri Feb 09, 2007 1:06 pm

Its a good idea steffen....and you have exposed well considering the glary light you had to deal with...but its not working for me as is stands...although I think it would make a great image for an arty type edit..:)
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Postby Steffen on Fri Feb 09, 2007 3:54 pm

Hi Bindii,
I wasn't quite sure myself whether it worked or not, after fiddling with something for a while you don't tend to see anymore what others see...

Thanks very much for your comment anyhow, I'm not having much luck lately getting even as much as a slamming of my pics out of the audience here... :shock:

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Postby CraigVTR on Fri Feb 09, 2007 4:46 pm

Steffen
If the image was balanced more with an equal amount of handrail on each side would be an improvement. Then give it some real contrast and see what happens. :D
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Postby Steffen on Fri Feb 09, 2007 11:58 pm

Thanks Craig,
funny you should say this, my very first impulse was to do the symmetrical cropping. I'm a bit of a symmetry nut, after all. However I ended up picking the off-centre version. Also, the contrast was at first higher, I flattened it a bit because the original starkness didn't quite gel with the idea of sunlight. For the same reason I ended up tinting the image a little bit warmer after b/w conversion.

I gave up PPing it after a while, I guess I didn't think the shot warranted as much attenion as I first thought. You've rekindled my interest... :)

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