Kuzguncuk 2

snow in Kuzguncuk

gorgeous composition. It is much more than it's sum of parts. scale and depth are perfect. the geometric vs. the natural culminate on the human, which is a statement about all people regardless of place or person

thank you for the comments..

mukemmel..saygilar.

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interesting picture. it certainly has a fairytale atmosphere. there is something strange about the perspective which intrigues me and makes me look again. I also like the way the picture is divided into a white and a brown area - reminds me of ying&yang.

nice work!

regards

I enjoy the bottom half of the image more so than the top half, in fact though the photo gives us a very unusual perspective thats interesting to look at I feel the top oof half of the image is unecessary and, well, just plain ugly. The extreme vertical panorama is an excellent idea but I'm not sure this was the right time to use it. The original proportions might be a little easier on the eye in this case.

 

I can imagine it being a finer image if cropped squarely (at bottom), though I imagine a slightly wider angle view would be needed to make a truly stunning image. Very nice nonetheless.. fairly good details and clarity... love the person walking down the 'line' of street lights. A beautiful winter scene. regards,

ps.. that massive tree is awesome...combined with the lights, I would have loved to see a composition that involved both a little more.

Each week I seem to sit here at my computer waiting for the POW to show up. Although not the first to comment, I do like to be early so as to get my evaluation in without being swayed by other's critiques. I guess that comes from having a weakness of my convictions. At any rate, I was thrilled to see this marvelous vertical panarama. I cannot tell if this is just cropped, or if it was stitched from two or three shots, although I suspect the former is true.

 

After running a series of tests earlier this fall, I found that I like the look of falling snow when shot at a slightly faster shutter speed than at a slower one. If I had any criticism it would be that had you shot this at about a 200th second it would make the falling snow more realistic. (I did not check to see if you informed us of the details of shutter speed or f-stop before commenting here.)

 

I suspect you worked long and hard keeping the shadows of the building from being too dark. They are perfect in my opinion for the gloom of the snow covered surfaces.

 

In reviewing other photographs you have in your portfolio, I see a number of urban landscapes which show a moody, almost gloomy Istanbul. I very much like your dark forbidding skies.

 

Nice work and congratulations.

 

Willie the Cropper

This picture needs to be black and white, please make it so!

the colour detracts from the graphical and contrasty nature of this image. with regards to the

cropping I would crop it just above the lamps to avoid that rogue open shutter at the top.

 

good image though, like it.

 

DG

I think the muted colours in this photo is it's strength. I think all too often, photographers use the b-w option as a crutch.

 

I do find the the single figure at the end of the one point perspective too static. The figure "looks like" he stood and posed for the picture. I wonder waht the effect would have been if there had been two persons (perhaps one tall and one short) or maybe even no one.

Nice image but the vertical framing does not allow the image to be adequately viewed on most computer monitors. Cropping the trees would help.

So this is how nature interfaces with man-made! I always wondered if it were possible to picture. It is. Thanks.

The image starts out with a nice feel, especially the bottom half, but quickly falls apart with the need to see why there is so much up on top. Once there is nothing of interest found there, the eye quickly starts to study the bottom again. There, the strange PS blurry/sharp juxtaposition between the light posts grabs the eye. It then becomes the centerpoint and once that's noticed it's hard to leave it.

 

Nice try, but a better job in 'working' this properly would have been worth the extra effort. Muted colors are my specialty, so I would understand all resistance to any B&W switcheroo suggestions.

I feel that if the image is cropped from top to just above the first lamp post, viewers will be able to concentrate on the real beauty of this image. The lower -half of the image is very good.

I really don't understand the choice for this long vertical format. The postproduction has been also very poor. JPEG compression ruined quality of the image if there was any. It's certainly not pleasure for the eye. I also second the opinion for cropping the top and convert to B&W with slightly increased contrast. Image looks too flat. Decreasing the shutter speed and increase in depth of sharpness would help (If I can say so from this poor quality image). Because of many technical flows It's not possible for me to get to the deeper meaning of it if there's any.

I agree with previous mentions of cropping. The story of the photo is in the bottom half. The top is not needed. I would crop to just above the 1st lampost. Love the massive tree & the figure walking through the snow

If you cropped it, there would be no more balance between the 'dark' part and the 'light' part....the balance, however, is the only thing that appeals to me in this picture.

 

If cropped, it'd loose the only thing I like about it

This is one of the best photographs I have ever seen. I would not crop it a bit, as the dark/light balance would be ruined. I love everything about this image. Thanks, Ceylon!

Your frame is well seen. Those feeling a crop is needed would perhaps also want to crop down a Japanese nature tapestry to one snow-laden tree and one trekking monk.

 

Cutting to the action is something us Americans loosed upon the world, but it isn't always appropriate. Sometimes you have to communicate in terms of expanded time and space because you hope to engage the viewer in a continuum that is not the one they stepped up to the photograph with.

 

Simply, a critical part of your photograph's impact is in its ratio of nature to man-made to man.

Let's be clear: there is a technically awful cloning bottom right of the picture, all the way up between the lamps - note the repetition in the pattern of the branches.

Id agree with Marc , the post work is very obvious on the right lower side , I dont want to point it out but there seems to be alot of it .

Unfortunately it ruins the attempt . PS skills need much improvement here.

We certainly can't tell what required the cloning in this photo, obviously the work of someone in need of lots more practice with PS. I would guess, however, that if Ceylan knew his photo were to be selected and subject to this scrutiny he would have put more of that time in.

So, having just checked out the 'Nodal Ninja' and then turning to this shot, I would introduce this not only as an example of the Future of Photography, but as an image in which the editing (despite the obvious flaws) was done in service of an extraordinary photograph.

I don't think this should (didn't say would) be an indication of the Future of Photography. At first the image held some element of mystique or even nostalgia, but after closer scrutiny what is left is dissapointment. I wouldn't think that the technology is the most important factor. The fact that you can doesn't mean that you have to.

 

Some care about the final image only, others like me are sometimes more interested in the journey. Now if there could be some software application in the future that shows us what the photographer really saw, what he really felt and what he envisaged by merely holding, touching or looking at a photograph - I would hail that as the Future of Photography.

 

This photograph is good, asks for a crop and shows the importance of using your tools with the utmost of care, should you choose to use them - you never know where the final product will pop up.

 

Congratulations with your POW Ceylan.

The PS clone discussion aside, the interesting poitns of this work should be be salvaged. I like the diagonal seperation and the natural contrast of blacks and whites. Unfortunately its a bit hard to fully appreciate its merit on my small computer screen. Not necessarily a memorable image but certainly worths a second glance (and more)