Staircase

Holy Noise! Not saying that its a bad thing, I just wasn't expecting it when the image popped up on my screen. Great composition. Love the lines of the satircase. The off centered windows really add to this photo. I love the shadow of the railings from the light from the window. Megan

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I agree with Megan about the composition. The grain is your choice.

Another great one!

The first key of your work, it seems to me, is the attention to geometrical composition. You are very very clever at that, i found it expecially looking rome's and sicily's portfolio, but also in this shot it come out very neatly. The image itself obviously is great, most p-netters probably dont' fall in love with old looking grainy b/w images becouse once they have tasted the digital venom they can never go back... but with this one, through the use of an uncommon geometric pattern, and playing with light and shadows, you created a very romantic and moody image. Probably a bit more of contrast while printing would help it a while (this is a print scan isnt it?), but the image stands on its own.

Geometry is part of simplicity for me, I often playing to make images with the simplest elements. My dream is to photograph a single line, and make an "image" of it. I still have some of an old Kodak B&W film-Double X- and sometimes deliberately destroy it to get some texture out of it. I know grain is a dirty world in this days, but I can't help: I just prefer it against the cleanness of digital images, which somehow remind me to Television screens. Lights? We could talk about lights for hundred years. One lifetime is not enough to learn and experience the magic of this ever changing miracle. Strangely we take light granted, without realizing it takes time and effort to learn to "see" light as it naturally unfold. Once we learned to be aware of it, it is easier to learn to use it. This picture is a bit flat for my taste too, I downloaded the intended version of it here; Laszlo

Superb light, great staircase curve, excellent shot very well composed.

Regards, Fernand.

what an interesting combination of these elements in your photograph. i am truly intrigued by the swirling staircase that bisects the wall with two windows (light) and ends just above the landing. Compositionally I would say this is perfect. Beautiful.

...made me fix it with double six or something else...?! It must be both, ha!

 

Conclusion: Quality of this picture consists of perfection of the composition and something else, ha!

 

Cheers to that!

 

PDE

I examined this image first for grains. . . . . . I don't now, what you gays is talking about. I don't seen grain, ( LaCie monitor) I seeing stucco, and other texture in this image. And even, if I see grain, it is just add beauty for this image. Don't forget guys, it is film, and as it is have some real life in it. Film is beautiful and grain is beautiful to, if it is come whit a good image. Az Laszlo said, I myself, sometime made my images, digital, grainy, to have more artistic or graphic effect. We, sometime, judging images, more of the so called technical term, rather on the artistic value. I hate, when I see a snowy landscape, and everywhere the snow is grey, just to have a lots of texture, and nobody can say, the snow is blown out.

 

This image is perfect in technical . . . . and artistic value. NO..!!! grain issue at all.! I used to walk many, many years in such place, and known the atmosphere of this place, and I say, it is a perfect representation of the subject, in the most difficult lighting situation. . . . . And you gays, don't forget, it is on film. And one more word. Film, negative, slide, b/w color, is still better then a best digital camera can produce. The problem, when you digitizing, to get to the computer.

 

Congratulation Laszlo, to be brave enough, to still work on film.

 

Have a wonderful New Year, And never get reed of your FM body. I have one too.

 

Cheers; Bela