Woman photographing the Art Museum

comments welcome, especially if you love taking photos for the pure

joy of it

Great photo Tim. I like the shapes and placement of the subject.The contrast is perfect and brings your eye to the woman as well. Thanks for sharing it

very good..congrats

Wonderful photo Tim - Congrats. I also like taking photos for the pure joy of it! Rgds Geri

The photographer taking this shot has also raised this image to the level of Art,Tim. Excellent perspective,exposure and tone.

Very nice work, Tim!

wow excellent finding and capture and architecture space dear Tim!

 

Bravo and so great light reflex on the floor and superb in B&W!

 

Biliana

If I ever visit Milwaukee I know there is one place I wanna go for sure... This is really cool! Very nice exposure and I like the smoothness of the walls and tones. btw, I recently used your "Comments welcome if..." phrase, of course acknowledging you... hope it's not a registered Trademark yet ;-) They are fun to read.

Chitra

C TR, if you come to Milwaukee, e-mail me and I will give you a tour of the Art Museum. If we are lucky, there will be some wedding photographers and we can shoot them shooting their weddings.

Everything in this picture works really well, Tim. I love the b&w tonalities and reflections of the window on the shiny floor.

Superb !

Great contrast and tones, Tim. I like the addition of the woman for a sense of scale.

This woman appears as though she is becoming emersed in water below. The lighting is excellent...it captures the reflections very nicely!

Thanks for the offer Mr. Holte, that sounds like fun :-)

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Great lighting with just enough detail in the subject to make the overall image quite interesting.

I love the sweeping curves, the feeling of space, and the liquidity of the floor; the exposure is perfect.I missed this the first time around and am very happy I got to see it. Tim-this is a masterpiece. best regards, cb

What a wonderful backdrop for a photograph--the Milwaukee Art Museum. The lines are wonderful--an architectural wonderland. I like having the subject doing something rather than just static. Nice job there too. The only criticism I have is that had the model been a couple of feet behind where she was, she wouldn't be looking out of the picture. I find it is much better to have people looking INTO the picture rather than out. Even an exact mid-position would have been better.

 

Nice lighting, texture ect. Worthy of many comments on this fourm, I would suspect. Congratulations on being selected.

 

Willie the Cropper

Really a great photo, imo. And the best picture of this place, that I could find in your portfolio just now, Tim. As I saw this, I was reminded of this one here - same place, roughly the same angle, in color. What I like about yours, beside the beautifull bright tones, the beautiful silhouette and the perfect composition, would be the idea, as expressed by the title, of somebody taking a picture in there.

Soory: I forgot to add the link to thisother photo by Bob Hixon. Here it is: http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=976446

This is a riveting image, extremely well composed. But I have always felt about architecture shots that the credit for the photographic art goes much more to the architect than the photographer. There are exceptions, like when the photographer waits for dramatic light or uses a tilt-shift lens or happens upon a rare and unplanned juxtaposition. But in this case it seems the architect did the heavy lifting. Nonetheless, it is an arresting image and a whole lot of people would buy this for their living room, so congrats on the POW!

I'm sorry, I have to be the contrary voice here. While I appreciate that the woman in the photo may attract the eye and add a contrasting element, I think this would have been a great, symmetrical photo on its own.

"While I appreciate that the woman in the photo may attract the eye and add a contrasting element, I think this would have been a great, symmetrical photo on its own." I agree with this comment but think that the photograph is even better with the human element. cb

Doesn't work for me niether. The lack of symmetry and the obvious potential for symmetry ruins this shot for me. It's just off enough to bug me and not skewed enough to make it interesting for me. My own interpretation of the subject is that of a rare lone silhouette being stationary enough to 'liven' up the center stage; but this only adds to the feeling of snapshot. I think that this particular setting would have worked better for me if it had been properly staged with model(s) directed in the right positions.

 

Technically, I find the contrast and tones well controlled but I also feel the lighting is a bit flat and uninteresting, like if it was taken in early afternoon.

I really like the lines, shapes, reflections and the single person for a sense of scale and isolation (a more contemplative pose would be a plus). However the almost-symetry is a bit bothering. Some of the asymmetric compositions of the same space are much more dramatic. I also think that a slightly lighter version would be a better representation of the whiteness of the building and wouldn't lose any highlight detail.