'Two Views of the World'

Two men, one real and one an illustration, survey their worlds, from a

vantage in a large airport hall. Your ratings, critiques and remarks are

invited and most welcome. If you rate or critique harshly or very

critically, or wish to submit an observation, please submit a helpful and

constructive critique; please share your photographic knowledge to help

improve my photography. Thanks! Enjoy! john

Alternate caption:

'Three World Travelers'

One of my favourite subjects. I have a folder about airports here.  The two persons, one real, the other virtual, are precisely of the same scale but unfortunately very much apart from each other.

Can you expand on the type of post-processing, which seems to produce a high contrast but flat tones?

L.

This photo looked great on workup but on posting looked a little flat.

I'm working with a handicap using a laptop with a slightly defective monitor screen which makes everything look very contrasty, so even this appeared contrasty all around before posting.

There must be enough range for good contrast inside, yet still honoring that it'd much darker inside and very bright outside without causing outside blowouts, which calls for flatter contrast inside, or a little cheating and greatly brightening the inside.

I would lighten the inside the next time, I think, although it goes against my grain.  I think it doesn't show well on thumbnail and shows better the larger it is blown up.

It's a subtle photo, taken in an instant, before the leftmost figure moved, as I was being rolled in a wheelchair at some speed, so it's the only one possible to have been taken.

I happen to like it.  I may re-process it.  Who knows?

I'll still have the laptop handicap.

Thanks for weighing in; I am most grateful.

john

John (Crosley)

You say 'farther apart unfortunately'.

Since there are no other actors in the scene, I prefer that they be so far apart.

To me the spacing seems optimal though raters seem to agree with you, possibly, though in fact I think one rating was a 2 and the rest were much, much higher (early ratings were straight 5s until one low rating came in).

However, the ratings, I like this one.  It's a little hard to display on a web site, but I think blown up large, and exhibited, it might show rather well, with some brightness/contrast adjustments to the right.

Who knows until one actually does that?

It's never going to be my best photo, but I think it's well seen, and better than many of my higher-rated photos.

Best to you Luca.

john

John (Crosley)