Groznjan

Nice textures !

...a bit too yellow, don't you think ?

i'd rather have the gray stairs gray.

else, very good.

I hesitate to disagree with Behel but the colours look fine to me.

Barely a pixel out of place on this one. Colour seems right for me. As a photographer, I can sense the pleasure you must have derived when you found this scene. Some scenes just cry out to be photographed and this is one. Your framing is just perfect and definitely suits the square format. So much to explore, with many highlights (of the scenic type, of course). The reflection of the roof tiles in the window is the "icing on the cake", as they say. Just wonderful.

Gorgeous photo. However, I find my eyes wandering all over the photo without finding a focal point. For me the dark glass at the upper right is what sort of diffuses the photo. But try looking at it cropping the top of the photo along the top edge of the railing at the upper right. Personally, I think that cropping would make a better photo.

 

Alternatively, if the photo is already a crop (could be even though 6x6), if the top of the dark glass door at the upper right were visible in the photo it might also make a better photo.

I cropped as I suggested

Thanks very much for the comments here. Yes there is a preponderence of yellow in this picture, but I think it an entirely natural, unforced product of the local stone (limestone I suspect) and cement rendering. I'm always grateful to those property owners who do not call for an emergency mason the moment a sliver of plaster falls off the wall. Or who, when the necessary moment has arrived, decide on a patch up job rather than a full on rebuild.

 

As for the composition, I don't think a viewer would find a dominant focal point (though if I settle any where, it's the reflection of the roof tiling in the door glazing). Rather, I imagined it as a picture with interest above and below stairs, with the stairs as a means of travelling about. I agree that I failed to get everything neatly inside the box and as with most sets, a compromise was required. I decided the staircase should reach a landing before reaching the upper right corner. And I also felt that any more than one door in the picture would set up a door fight. So the top right door was kinda squeezed. Incidentally you can just make out the beginnings of a window cill in the top left, so extending upwards for more door introduced even more "wall furniture". Ideally, there would have been a litle more room at the foot of the stairs too. Only I wanted a geometric look to the shot and had I allowed more room to the left the picture would have included a slice looking up a street. It would have changed from 2-D to 3-D. The geometric thing I was interested in, this above and below stairs, came from the door and the massive plant holder. The area occupied by the door glazing was about the same as that of the plant holder, and I imagined this dance between the two; how they were interchangeable. Thanks very much for the cropping suggestion John. I'm always pleased to hear others' thoughts and ideas.

Beautiful. It's a long time now I am trying to find out something like this to photograph... lucky u! I really like this photo both compositionally and for its colours. Great shot, congrats.

It's hard to argue with this one. Geometric and chromatic harmony. What I like is that the photographic vision has been imposed on the scene -- you have isolated a satisfactory and self-sufficient frame from the continuum of the larger scene.

 

Easy for the vision's idle spectator; much harder for the creator of the vision.

hmmm...greetings from Croatia,wonderfull capture,however I think that you have cought this one perfectely, a bit less exposure (-1/2 stop or such) could maybe stand out texture more realistic,but I think that this one could not be significantly more improved,did you employed some filters here??? (polarizer??)...regards.

 

--darko (from Coatia)

Nicely composed image of an interesting place.