Downing

Paul G: 28th Mar 2003 - 06:10 GMT

Guessing: You left the shutter open a relatively long time to compensate for the dim interior; that resulted in the massive overexposure and "corona" around what I assume is the sun. And then you bumped up the contrast during digital editing to preserve the underexposed areas.

There is so little in between black and white - little grey scale. It's different than the bulk of your work that I have seen.

There's a lot of contrast in line quality too: organic v. synthetic v. abstract.

This piece feels a bit like a painting. And inasmuch as I enjoy Italian Mannerist painting, I enjoy this piece too.

Verbose, pompous, Paul G quota met.

Nice pic, hool.

aotearoa: 29th Mar 2003 - 01:15 GMT

i think it's awesome. like the light , shadows and the tired silhouette on th stairs...cool

hool: 29th Mar 2003 - 17:17 GMT

somehow i missed the comments on this the first time around. thanks for the props everyone. paul, your comment wasn't really pompous, you need to end a lot more of your words with 'ism' to achieve pompousness. (or pomp? which is it?)

actually the shutter speed was pretty fast for that shot - i metered directly on the sun so it was probably 1/640th. but since the sun was shining directly through that window, it created a lot of hard contrasts inside the building. i made the contrasts even sharper when i was digital darkroooming the shot. what you see around the sun are sun flares, a result of shooting directly into the sun and having a dirty lens - those specs are specs of dust. really should have cleaned it before that shot, but often i don't mind sun flares.

Paul G: 30th Mar 2003 - 07:40 GMT

Communication - in all forms - is imperfect.
Consider the source.
And don't stare into the sun, or the void.

elaine: 25th Apr 2005 - 21:17 GMT

is beautiful. julian cope did a nice song called sun spots. I don't have an ism to offer but, how does 'contre jour' do ya?