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A last photo of this cloister (I have some others, but I don't want

to bore you). This time I have turned my camera towards the inside

where the sun was painting the shape of the arcades. Notice the

silhouette of the little nun passing by the door (no, in fact it is

my daughter). Thank you for your ratings and comments.

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Nice play with geometry and light. Can I see a person far in the distance? Too much emptyness here. But I like the composition.
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Henri, IMHO this one is the most intriguing and original. Superb composition with all the lines leading to the silhouette in the background. This door is the exit to the world outside, but who would want to leave such a beautiful and peacful place. So this photo really tells us something about the idea behind the cloisters' architecture and space. I have some reservations concerning the post-processing, we have mixed light here so it is very difficult to correct but I think there is too much cyan/green in the left bottom corner shadow. The sunlight on the bench is crucial here so I would leave it as it is, but the wall seems blown out a little. Nevertheless the exposure and the contrast are just perfect. Regards, Michal.
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The shadows are neat here. My eye almost wants you to be standing a bit more to your right and tilt the camera a bit more to the left so that the focal point (off into infinity where all of the lines of perspective meet) isn't dead center. Did you try this in B&W? Or, possibly desaturating the everything outside of this hallway ... for example, the tiny bit of grass that I can see beyond the archways to your right and the little bit of blueish in the roof (same side) are a tiny bit distracting. I think that you could desaturate those colors without anyone noticing that the image has been modified....
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Thank you for your kind comments.

Michal, if I remember well, my only post-processing was about the light on the wall. I have tried to find some details of the stones (and I have succeed in) but it is sure that a frontal light in a dark corridor will give this sort of result. For me, it is not different from what I saw in real. About the left bottom shadow, I have not tried to touch up. Maybe it could be better if a bit more red but I don't mind.

Lou Ann, what do you think of my black & white version above ? Now, personnaly I don't find distracting the details you say. The truth is that my eye don't go on this part of the photo. And if it goes on, it sees the column but not what is behind.

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Henri, I too like both colour and b&w versions with a slight preference for the b&w where the detail of the sunlit parts seems to be better retained. The seat adds an invitation to relax and take life slowly.
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Henri - the B&W is okay, but one of the things that I like so much about the original post is the color in the stones inside the hallway. I will attach two versions, both of them very rough examples of what I was thinking. (I didn't have much time to spend working on them....)
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First, a rough job of slightly desaturating just what is outside the window. It could have been done much more selectively, but you see what I was getting at.....

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Or, alternately, the entire image desaturated, and then applied a custom filter to add back some of that same color idea. Again ... quick work, could have been done much better.

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My favourite of your last work. Great use of wide angle perspective. Interesting to compare the different versions. I would not have thought about B&W here, but now that I see the B&W I must say it is at least as attractive as the color one (in color, I prefer your version, dont find the shadow cast distracting).
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Henri, I think the image is lovely as it is and I prefer it in full colour. You have captured the feeling of solitude well with the lone figure in the archway. This is, after all, the idea of a cloister. And she is placed nicely off center as a distant focus. In fact I think the composition is nicely balanced with the various elements of vertical and horizontal structure, doorways and shadows. I also like the bits of green. I wouldn't want to live in a world without colour and I think this gives us a hint of what would be on view for someone sitting on the bench and looking into the courtyard. Sorry Lou Ann, I'm not taking issue with your comments, just giving an alternative view. And although the sunlit areas on the wall are bright, I can see detail in the large version which is much better for viewing, by the way.
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I like the angel and the perspective very much...I would choose a monochrom colour to accent the composition better, in b/w or sepia it would look very good :)

P.S. thanks for your kind comments ot some of my photos :)

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Henri, late to the " celebration" ;-)) but following the other images of the place, I like this one very much AS IS! I think that your exposure is very good with the difficult light condition of in/out.The different light and shadows play in the long hall is interesting. Point of camera is good, and while looking I see the light outside and the green garden corner .The man in the BG, is a very nice addition to the composition, an "invitation" to walk all the way and explore that end... Very nice image!
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Henri, sorry, did not take my glasses "standing" in the begining of the hall... so it would have been right to reffer to her as a human figure ;-))
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