swimming pool

interior of a gym

Charles,I've never been a big fan of architectural photography. Until now. This is terrific, well done.

Warren

I have to agree this is a very clever image. I like it a lot.

Excellent. so unusual concept and view on a swimming pool and so original symmetry! well done!

Biliana

Ingenious use of the ultra wide angle lens. I particularly like the symmetrical viewpoint and the lane divider for a touch of cmplementary colour.

Excellent symmetry and angle of view.

Incredible! Thanks for a fresh look on a subject that has been seen many times before. Bravo!6/6

I saw the thumbnail, thinking what am I looking at, seeing it full size, just amazingly beautiful

 

Els

I almost missed this one, because the thumbnail looked like a double exposure or something messy for me..I'm happy that I viewed this, very nice.

 

Very cool shot of a difficult subject.

Indeed very good - just one comment: it is not perfectly centered - is this on purpose? To me it would have made the shot even better

Really original and different photo! I like it a lot! What I don't understand is the frame. Really nice photo anyway. Cheers, Mikel.

Firstly I'd like to thank everyone who took the time to add a comment to this photo. Personally i didn't expect to get so much positive feedback for this photo.

 

This shot was taken while i was on a job shooting conceptial images for a property development company. They were shooting a TV commercial in another pool, and i had only a few seconds to set up my camera and grab this shot (hence it's not perfectly aligned as someone has pointed out). What initially struck me about this pool was it's curves... and i must admit i didn't pay much attention to the colour until the photo came out of the lab... The contrasting colours really works IMO.

 

As for the boarder, it's a full frame scan, and the black boarder is the edge of the transparency...

 

The ironic part of the story is that the company i was working for didn't use this particular shot at the end of the day because the pool was too big.... :-(

Very nice! If you were aming for simmetry, the red stuff in the middle is not completely centered. A couple of swimmers or something interesting going on would make a great picture as well. I want an hasselblad now :)

 

Simone

it's a great camera... go for it... but it won't take pictures on its own! ;-)

great job. when i see thumbnail for first time I thought it's some interesting computerwork art or something similar. But this is overally better!

VERY

beautifull lines, good crop. I like the lightnessIs this perhaps a Santiago Calatrava building?

I really love the lights here... it was probably not so easy to decide the exposure, was it? I myself have always wanted to shot (a picture of course) inside at a swimming pool but it is forviden in Switzerland (at least when there are some people arround). Regards, Alejandro

PIM: I'm not sure who designed this building, but i do see the similarities, There are so many big name architects in town these days it's hard to keep track... Shanghai is filled with crazy architecture, and i love it!

 

Alejandro Keller: Actually metering was quite easy on this one... took a spot meter of the floor of the pool as medium gray.

This is at very nice shot. The colours and the sharpness are great. It is slightly out of balance though which bothers me when I am looking at it. I find myself turning to the left in front of my screen in order to get the perspective straight. So my evaluation is that the shot is (almost) perfect. I realize that some of the imbalance is due to the room itself, but still...

Simply fantastic!

Ain't this pretty! Oh, my