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Great, although I liked the other stair(?) shot better.

In this shot is particularly notable the spherical distortion. As the

distortion is not the same for all the lines -specially stronger in

the upper and lower part- I think it can be hard to correct in PS (if

there is any way...).

 

Do you know if there's anything that can be done about it? (I don't

have money for a more expensive lens... :-)

 

Of course, rates and any additional comment appreciated.

 

Thanks!

This belongs to a series of the same place that can be found in the same folder.

I guess you do what you gotta do to get this image to a point where you are pleased, but I just wanted to say that the slight distortion doesn't bother me in the least. I wouldn't have even thought about it if you hadn't pointed it out. I like this series...nice work.

The distortion is okay, I would not change it. There ought to be something in PS to correct it though.

Perhaps use some Distortion->Pinch/Spherize only in parts of the image! Use copies of the main layer and then stick together the different parts to the final image. I can't think of an other easy way to do it. And yes, you will loose much of sharpness when doing this so try to do this with a large scan of this picture and then resize. Hope this helps a bit.

Hi Nestor,

 

I like all your photos, and your sense of compositions. Great work. Would love to rate your photos, but I barely have enough time to browse the photos...

 

Good work, I like your folders.

Thanks for your feedback, very usefull!

 

Anurag: thanks for your concepts!

2nd best in the folder.

FAN-TAS-TIC ! I'm very surprised by the ratings this one had so far... Who cares about distortions here ? And isn't this one of the most original shots one can think of as for images of a couple walking ? Then, what's aesthetically wrong with it ? Nothing to me. So A 10 / 0 9... Now is it my favorite shot on Photo.net ? No. But it is as close to perfect as the very best ones. It might just lack a little bit of soul for me, but that would be asking a shot to be another shot, rather than looking at this one. Beautiful, Nestor, and to me, the best pix you uploaded so far...

Very beautiful series of images. I especially liked this one. The symmetry of the steps is wonderfully broken by the two people. The spherical abberation does not bother me.

Hi Nestor,

to correct the distorsion have a look at the "LensDoc filter" from

Andromeda

http://www.andromeda.com/info/lensdoc.html

I love your photo, an exceptional one.

Regards, Ben

Was this pre-planned or purely accidental ? Whatever it was this image is stunning. Simple but quite effective. Yes they were together under a wide and large area of a single tone and pattern. Very well done indeed !

Very simple, strange, and surrealistic work!!!For me is a good and unusually idea!

It's certainly a unique composition, and the lines are visually striking. But, I keep wanting to see the people with a little more clarity or intimacy -- as it is now they seem so far away that the shadows thrown are easily ignored in the image.

 

I think architectural images are stronger that show how people interact with the architecture in question, which you have done. My overall interpretation I make of this image is that the architecture is huge, people are small, and the design reinforces the linearity/redundancy of many of our human-made landscapes.

Love it. Let's not pick it apart for any technical flaws, it works fine the way it is. I really like the vast space around the couple. Nice work!

This is not the kind of photos I like to watch, but i admit that it is amusing. When i first saw the little format i believed it was the photo of a sheet of a pupil's exercise book. Of course, you want to see better and you open the large format. And there, you score a point. The more funny is that once you have open the large format, it is still a sheet of exercise book, and you see better the fine lines between the bold lines. You see too that the pupil has made a little design on the top. Very well drawn, moreover. Please, see above the note the teacher give.

 

As for the spherical distortion, I first thought of the "twisting" command in PS(I am not sure of the name in the english version. In french it is "torsion"), but it is not possible to twist the two corners without touch of the middle. Perhaps you could cut out the photo in three longitudinal strips, then you twist the left corners of the left strip, you dont touch at the central strip, you twist the right corners of the right strip, and finally you stick back together the three strips. Yes, it is a little bit "bricolage" as we say in french, and i am not sure if the result would be fine.

Surely this is a great photo. I would have liked it even better if the two people had been a bit off-center, but I understand this is a subjective issue - some will find it overly scholastic. I agree with the last comments by R.J. Fox: the image - if regarded as an architectural photograph - stresses the linearity, redundancy and, most of all, emptiness of many urban landscapes as opposed to the small human figures. But of course the photo can also be regarded as a purely formal and abstract study, whence its great strength. I wonder if the author has taken other photographs from the same view point at different instants; I believe that also with more people this would make for great compositions, perhaps reminiscent of notes on a pentagram or birds on power lines.

Excuse me. It is not necessary to cut out the photo into three band, you just have to select one band on the left and twist the corners, then select one band on the right and twist the corners. I think i remember to have doing something like that one day. It works.

Good for you, Nestor! I'm so glad to see your work offerd up here for general discussion by the whole community.

 

Long ago, and more so in the past couple of weeks, I've noticed many standard photographic approaches to subject matter, either in subject choice, subject treatment, or in compositional concept. This shot illustrates da commonly used compositional technique: isolating a subject in one corner of the frame and then including a huge expanse of additional space to emphasize the isolation. I've seen this done countless times with water (A small boat in the corner, massive amount of water or sky above) deserts (single flower, expanse of sand), and walls (lone subject alone with enormous wall) to list three examples. What I enjoy about Nestor's shot is that, although the compositional concept is not unique, the placement is surprising in that the subjects are placed high in the frame, and the expanse of nothingness has been replaced by a regular pattern. (I see this use of pattern as a risk, but one that paid out.) So, while I shrug a little at the compositional concept, I'm glad to see there is an injection of originality in its use and the picture is very successful.

This pic is vaguely interesting due to the lighter verticle lines.In my opinion they 'make' this picture..such as it can be .

i thought this was Bob Atkin's image for testing the 10D autofocus...hahahaha...

I was also struck by the resemblance to student's lined writing paper or graph paper. The inclusion of the two children enhances the association and is particularly appropriate for the beginning of a new school year (in the U.S.). Nice to see the fine work of this photographer being recognized.

Felicitaciones Néstor, es muy gratificante ver fotos de argentinos con semejante calidad en estas páginas.

¿Es el Monumento a la Bandera?

To my eye, the pattern of horizontal and vertical lines is too static, and don't help to lead my eye to the 2 figures. Without something to lead my eye to the figures, they seem to just be there as a footnote, more lost in the lines, than found. It may be that my monitor image is missing some detail that might enhance the picture, but what I see doesn't work for me. OTOH, I think it takes some risks, and should be applauded for that.

Well... thank you all for your comments and suggestions and also for putting this one here.

Some answers and comments on this one:

"Was this pre-planned or purely accidental ?"-- Alan Chan

Yes, it was pre-planned. From the compositional point of view and on the choice of the film.

One of my approaches to architectural shots is to try to show people inside the frame, and like in this case, to give an idea of the size of the photographed building. I'm also usually attracted for the regular forms of stairs and specially this one (Flag Memorial, Rosario, Argentina), and for how small or even insignificant we're or we can feel sometimes, in a world that we cannot control most of the times.

The film used, a very fine grained one, was also selected specially for this opportunity, since if a big size printing was possible in the future, graininess would have been distracting.

BTW, as an engineer that I am, patterns attracts me strongly, I guess it's some kind of a reminiscence of a "structure" training and way of viewing things; then you surely understand why this was also an intend to brake an "in the box" way of thinking/composing, adding a regular component (the stairs) but putting the subject in a extreme position.

And yes, it is a risky approach. But "know the rules to know how to break them" is what can make the difference between a good shot and a more original one. This is what I tried here.