Night scene

Subject line says it all. Never having a realy good film SLR(just an VERY old full manual Fujica SLR) I'm impressed by whatdigital cameras can produce. Others disagree saying digital has stilla long way to go.

What do you think?

tc

PS: please don't forget to rate the picture!

Frankly I don't judge images by what they were taken with.

If you hadn't pointed it out I'd have never known.

I did traditional commercial work for many years and now shoot with a 2.1mp digital AND LOVE IT!

Great shot!

It really doesn't matter whether it was taken with film or digital. What matters is the final picture and this is a great one. Have you cropped it to square format?

Some will argue that digital isn't up to the job. I think you just proved that it is...

...it's a fantastic image. You're right about the illusion that the photo will give the viewer. My question, any way to bring out the green of the neighboring foliage in the image without making it appear fake? That might bring more of the "jungle" look that you're looking for.

I too have a "Traditional" SLR, but have purcahsed a 2.1MP digital Canon point+shoot. Some of my favorite images have been captured by the digital, even though it has absolutely no manual controls!

I think people who believe a person who relies on the technical specifications of their camera in order to take a good photograph isn't relying on the basic fundamentals of a camera. It's just the object that opens a shutter to expose film at a measured interval of time. There are few variables I put into consideration at the time of taking images. Lighting, Point of View, natural framing of the subject...and mabye, just mabye, Depth of Field. That's about it. Call me a "bad photographer," but unless it's specifically for my own benefit when learning more about my camera or different variables, I hardly consider recording every step I take. But this is all just "IMHO," as so many people will say.

I like the contrast of the harsh light; great mood! If it were mine, I would probably crop in on the left and right to make it a vertical and give the wall and stairs a stronger presence.

This part isn't a critique, just an observation: it's interesting that most of your work here gives me a feeling of isolationism due to the subject being surounded by black or dark colors. I've recently become aware that the same theme is showing up in my own work, but I'm using DOF.

Thank you all for your comments, I appreciate this very much.

To Mark Carpenter: since the time I got my

first Kodak pocket camera I enjoy taking pictures

in 'low light' conditions.

Nowadays, there are two main reasons for this:

- most of the year it's allready dark when I come home from work

- I don't have to talk people out of 'my' picture :)

tc

I've only recently discovered the joys of available light photography. My flash breaking last Christmas was a god(dess)-send. I ended up having to push the film and use f1.8. I bagged one of my favorite pics that week. It started me on a whole new look. (This is a crappy scan. The highlights aren't completely washed out on the neg.)

I really like this picture, the composition is very pleasing to the eye, and I do feel something from that scene...

As for digital photography, well, I don't think you should judge pictures on how or what they used to take them. It's the end result that counts.

I like it Tom,

No bias against digital here, barely shoot with my old Minoltas anymore, although I'm starting to have large format lust (go figure)

Couple suggestions/questions:

- did you use the timer or a remote? The image looks just a tiny bit blurry.

- I find the burnout from the light distracting, think the photo would look better with it cropped out (IMHO ;)

- keep up the good work!