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When I attended the architecture/scenography seminar at the StateSchool for Art in Karlsruhe, as a guest student, we had to describe aspace by the door to it.

One of the points of critique was, that, in the first draft, almosteverybody described doors which were rectangular and 0.90m x 2.10m .

This although there is plenty of literature available in the theory ofarchitecture from which one learns that a door is a place to getthrough, from one place to another, while a window is an object tolook through, something like a frame.

I have chosen this door because of having another shape than the abovementioned. I renounce to comment about the places, or about the facesof the door to the two places, about its partly window transparency.

 

Thanks for your time to look, rate and comment!

Maria

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This must be the entrance to Rossio's train station in Lisbon, am I right? It is an amazing building and so it is it's doors.

Nice composition but maybe if the picture had been taken in a different light and from a lower angle the result could have been more impressive. Regards!

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Hi Alexandre,

 

thanks for the comment!

 

Yes, it must be at Rossio. It is about the NW corner of the place you said it is the Rossio place, and it is the entrance indeed to a train station.

 

I liked the way the man is catched in the door, and the reflection, but you are right about the light - autolevels did not work on this one, so I used on contrast 25%.

 

regards

Maria

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There are 3 doors like this in that building, if I remember well. Splendid architechture and nice photo. The unidentifiable bit on the left is a little distracting though. Well done anyway. The man and the reflections compensate for the difficult cropping.
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Beautiful photograph, details and DOF! You have also not blurred the background by selecting low DOF. This is very appropriate for this shot, I like this.
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Hi,

 

thank you for the kind comment, I am glad you like it!

 

It seems like my trip to Lisbon was a photographic success, at least related to the rest of my photos, and that if I will ever write a travel guide, to do that over Lisbon ... ;)

 

kind regards

Maria

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Hi again,

 

thanks for the comment.

 

I only remember two doors, though ...

 

Until I select another shot I like from urban Lisbon, I continue with Vienna (see the Austria folder, more to come); there is a 'door' also - in that one you really can see if my photographic skills improved after one month of intensive photo.net participation :)

 

enjoy

Maria

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This is the type of photograph I really like. Rich and slightly surreal reflections of the urban landscape. Might have been better without the extraneous details on the left side. Also, the tilt to the right is a bit distracting.
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You are right Maria, there are only two doors of that size (and two or more smaller ones). Looking at it again, I like the reflections confined within the iron shapes
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Hi,

 

thanks for the time for the comment.

 

Well, obviously I don't manage to get a door perfectly perpendicular ... all are slightly in perspective to the left or the right. Here it comes to it that the road wasn't horizontal, as one can see at the steps. In any case, the most successful door photo I made so far, but I only posted two for critique ;) the other one is from the Secession building, and maybe it is the Secession building which photo.net users don't seem to like (or the JPG compression on it) ...

 

regards

Maria

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Hi,

 

glad to see you back!

 

It seems that Lisbon photos are further popular :) :) :). Unfortunately I don't have many more to post, and will soon have to start with the presentation ;)

 

I have just requested a critique on one of the other Thessaloniki photos I had in the folder.

 

Regarding old photos: I have recently uploaded one B&W more, and if I am lucky and the scans are ready will also have a colour slide. To complete the 'trilogy' there are newer ones (1999 - Romanian pelicans, one of my favourites - and 2002) on Bucharest already uploaded.

 

cya

Maria

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Hi Maria,

I see what you mean. It almost looks like the building is slipping beneath the surface if you look closely at the base. Do you have any more great reflection shots like this? I really like it.

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Maria, this is a very good picture. It has one flaw (Schoenheitsfehler): the bottom part is tilting very slightly to the right. Cheers, Sam.
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Hi,

 

I finally managed to upload some door shots with reflection.

 

I have found another reflection shots - I don't know if they are great; the architecture itself is great, and it was meant to be reflecting; but I need some more quota - so maybe next week.

 

The door shots are now the three most recent shown on my member page. If you look later, they are the 3 most recent in my Hungary portofolio folder.

 

Enjoy

Maria

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Hi Sam,

 

thanks for revisiting and the kind comment. Yes, you are right ...

 

kind regards

Maria

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great photo. I love the reflection and the man in the center of the frame. You can also say the shape of the door resembles a horseshoe which many people put over their doors for luck all be it upside from the way it is displayed here. Still a great photo.
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Hi,

 

thanks for the comment.

 

Yes, this is one of the photos I am proud of. I have basically chosen it, except of, well, the technical side, sharp details and so, because of the man in the door. I am happy the message comes across!

 

regards

Maria

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Thank you for looking at this old photo.

 

I was in Lisbon again this year and given the success of this photo I revisited the site.

It is totally different.

In February 2004 when this photo was taken the train station was in renovation and deserted.

Now there are a lot of people around and stands in front of it.

Maybe I should have taken a photo to compare but maybe I will go again to Lisbon ...

 

ciao

Maria

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Hi maria! I gave one of your recent photos a not very good rating so i thought that I would visit your page and choose a photo of your that i did like. You have lots of interesting photos in your portfolio and you have been to interesting places, thank you for sharing them. I like the composition of this one, the man in the middle makes it all the more interesting. Regards, erik
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Hi,

 

thank you, when this photo was taken it was while the station was in renovation, now the view is completely different, very crowded, you cannot take the photo again ...

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I happened to notice one of your Hungarian photos in critique forum along with extensive description. I understood you put much time and effort on the presentation. On your membership page I read you are an architect. As I browsed your portfolio I found this photo and noticed you being a responding photographer (not many are like you, I can tell).

 

So, please understand, I would demonstrate you how this kind of almost frontal photo could be corrected if one wants to do so. As an architect you are familiar with perspective theory, so I believe you could find this little software useful for your needs. It's a shareware, works as stand alone or as plugin on Photoshop. It's called PTLens and it supports your Fuji S5600 meaning it can correct the lens distortion as well perspective distortion.

 

I am not selling you anything, just giving you a tip as solution in cases like this. I have been using PTLens a couple of years myself and here you see how this photo would look corrected. Take a look at the lower part, left, bottom and right to see what perspective correction means: you have to have more extra area around so that you can crop those "corners" away.

 

If you will test this software, the correction values I used for this were:

Vertical: -10, Horizontal: -3, Rotate: 0,2

 

After the correction I used selection tool to highlight the effect of this correction, and then took this screenprint for this demo.

 

I hope you don't mind this short lesson using your photo, Maria.

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Thank you very much.

 

Just that this is a scanned photo, not taken with the Fuji ...

 

I wanted to take some Photoshop lessons, but I had no time and no money (3 days are half my salary)

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Thanks for responding this fast. I did read the details of this photo and noticed this was taken with an film camera, I just mentioned your Fuji camera as you have used it to take your latest photos. This perspective correction does not need PhotoShop, as this PTLens works alone, you just open the photo on your computer, and by the EXIF-data included in original JPG file PTLens will recognize which camera was used and can make the lens distortion corrections automaticly, but as you see it works also on scanned photos. The perspective correction you have to do manually. For example let us imagine you would not like to correct the effect of pointing camera upwards, it's fine, you leave out that "-10" in vertical correction. I believe not any Photoshop course would teach you this kind of editing, it would be a very specific course then, so don't worry.

 

All this told to avoid misunderstanding.

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