bogumil

This shot looks like a picture of the famous "La Pedrera" in Barcelona! Now I understand why this building is called this way.

My congrats on the idea as well as the way you've shot the picture. It's so gentle and yet poignant. The only thing I would like you to change is the size of the picture: it's far too big in the "Medium" version to be seen on the screen as a whole.

Sometimes modification in Photoshop can make a difference. There is

this on-going discussion on whether the "real" photographers should

use digital editing tools and to what extend. I think that when the

modification is beneficiary for the picture (as in the case of this

one) then it's OK, even if something is changed or added. Don't you agree?

I wanted it to convey the freshness of an early-spring day...

This picture was taken in the night so I had to do some colour editing

and I ended up with this dreamy atmosphere. Do you think I did it

right or should I change the colour balance?

Thanks for the remark. You're totally right - it's really annoying not to be able to capture the world as we see it. But maybe it's because we don't look at the whole scene at once: our eyes concentrate only at one point at a time. It's only after the eye sweeps through the whole scene, point by point, that the brain constructs the whole picture. So the eye has a chance to accomodate in some extend to different light intensities whereas the camera takes it all in one shot.

But let's get back to the picture. The truth is, I already tried to alleviate the light intensity problem of this picture, but the difference between the blinding light on the wall and the deep shadows of the Treasury was so huge that the film didn't register enough details of the wall and the picture you're seeing above is all I could do with that.

After I read your remark I decided to try another approach. As you see, I took two pictures of the Treasury at that time and on each the blinding light is on another part of the wall. So I simply pasted the "normal" fragment of the wall from one picture onto the blinding white of the other. Here is the result:

/photodb/image-display?photo_id=418586&size=smIt does look better, but then it's not a true memory of that moment...

I wanted to get a nice, aestethically pleasing photo, but now I start

to wonder whether the outcome isn't simply just another kitschy photo.