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please look at 'large' view so you don't miss it . . . and yes it's

real

That is an awsume and rare looking shot... What are the stairs doing there... There is no building. Are they there for the bird? He seems to like them.

 

Beautiful colors, and just the right croping.

GREAT JOB...

Excellent design well observed and shot. Good contrast between the colours.

 

Datta.

Love these kind of shots, just great.

A strong image, captured with perfect lighting. I think it would be stronger still with a human presence somewhere up the stairs, rather than just our diminuative feathered friend.

Excellent composition, enjoy the graphic lines and colour gradations of the bg sky. Regarding the bird - small, probably not entirely necessary (except to justify your title) though a larger object/ animal might just strengthen it - e.g. a construction worker in hard hat.

 

I would like more punch, more contrast and slightly less saturated reds (under 80% is usually my aim.) But my wish list requires clarification : I'm viewing on a Mac with sRGB (many numbers) whilst your embedded profile is Adobe sRGB 1998. And - you have decided to stick with the original exposure, whilst I never hesitate to - at least - adjust my contrast in the darkroom.

 

Extremely strong image that should appeal to the graphically- and colour-minded.

Seven, Your comment is full of things to think about . . . thank you, . . . . but I'm going to need some help here.

 

I have some others from the series with and without birds, but no workers as it was after everyone had left - except the job foreman who thankfully let me stay if I promised to 'be careful'. I saw an image last year with a dozen silhouetted workers on a scaffold that filled the frame - great shot.

 

So many images boost the reds beyond all reason, and now you want me to tone it down !?!?!? . . . but seriously, forgive the dumb question but how do you measure your 80%?

 

How can you tell what my imbedded profile is and that I didn't change the exposure at all?

 

Any help from someone vastly more experienced in using photoshop to tweak images would be most welcome.

Very sorry, Carl... I can't offer any help with the PS question. Nevertheless, I would like to add my admiration for a truly eye-capturing graphical image. Saturated reds or not, you obviously were there at the "right" time of the day and managed to capture the "best" possible image of this staircase. The red suggests to me that this might be another image from the fire fighting training facility.... ;-)

Graphically strong image. Simple in composition but still plenty for the eye to look at.

I have been a fan of your work for awhile now... but this one is tops!

Absolutely stunning! What suburb light!

Thanks for sharing this one.

Carl, this is a simple and elegant composition. The lines structure this so well. Perfect contrast. The hues you have captured on the stairway and in the sky are magnificent as well. This is truly something to be proud of.

Simple and striking. Love the colours.

This one is very good and substantially better than the horizontal version. I love the orange tones at the bottom and the composition. regards.

Carl, this is brilliant. I think you should leave people out of it. Why spoil a great thing. There are elements in here that link me to the grande in your self-portrait - in an abstract way. A wonderful image.

Lovely colour. I like the bird at top.

Carl - once I've downloaded and open in PS 7.0 I'm told of a profile mismatch : i.e. between my working space and your embedded colour profile....how "it" knows is anyone's guess.

 

Saturation/ brightness levels, etc. these I can measure with the eyedropper tool in PS.

 

I've taken the liberty : attachment is higher contrast, lower saturation red - no idea what it might look like on a PC, or in the browser's colour settings for that matter. Will delete in due course.

 

Cheers for now.

Seven, your upload is welcome. I think I would have ended up with an upload more like yours if I had worked on this recently. I've learned a bit more about PS since I did the original scan.

 

When a townhouse development is built, the staircases go up after the foundation is poured. I have some silhouette shots from another development taken a few months earlier. Some people visit national parks; I go to construction sites :-)

Thats about perfection. The shadows of railing and the colors - oh, and the bird. Excellent.

The color gradient and shadows are pretty darn cool.

Diving platform? Did you have to wait for the bird...

Would work better if cropped at top.

This is truly an awesome piece. Your style is reminiscient of my favorite illustrator, M.C. Escher http://www.mcescher.com/ you have very strong repeating geometric shapes. That is what I love about Escher's work. He made unique art from redundant patterns.

i like the blue fade to orange sky in the background, and i like the way the stairs just go up and up and up, then nowhere.. interesting