daniele_malleo

I would appreciate comments and suggestions. I'm especially concerned

with the right crop (this submission is uncropped).

Thanks.

Do the crossing cables contribute to the geometry of the picture, or

are they distracting? Any advice is greatly appreciated.

The picture was taken in March in NYC, Nikon F80 handheld, 50mm,

provia 100f. Scanned with a Nikon SuperCoolScan 4000ED.

This photo says so much on so many levels:

The warmth inside opposed to the cold snow outside.

The posed smile of the model in the advertising shot opposed to the obvious tragedy of the boy in the wheelchair.

Was this a single or double exposure?

noora, thanks for your comment.

The black line on top is the end of the frame.

I have tried to crop it out and upload the new image, but apparently the update feature on photo.net doesn't quite work...

John, thanks for commenting my shot of the reading room.

I'd be tempted to say that your picture shows the same room from a more interesting perspective.

Then I think that mine was shot with a 50mm , and yours with a 21mm and this makes impossible a fair comparison.

I read that you desaturated the shot in PS.

You should try to use the channel mixer layer with monochrome output instead. You'll have much more control over the process.

I'm reposting this picture of the "ghurkin" building in London, after

having improved the contrast and corrected the slight tilt.

Comments on composition and exposure are very welcome, as well as any

advice on how to photograph tall buildings in an original manner.

thank you.

When I shot the picture I wanted to show the beauty of the station opposed to ordinariness of people.

That's why I set the DOF to blur the people.

But if you ask which is the subject (the wall or the people), I guess the picture doesn't quite work....

This is the reading room inside the great court at the British

Museum. It was shot with a 50mm lens, tri-x film pushed to 1600.

I would appreciate comments specifically on exposure and composition.

Thanks.

Don, truly an excellent picture.

I have to ask: how big was this fish?

And how close did you have to get to it to fill the frame?

Don, thanks for your comment.

I should say that this film was actually pushed to 1600, so that I could confortably hand-hold my camera inside the museum (tripods are not allowed).

This is a picture I shot at the famous (?) British Museum Great Court.

It is a truly magnificient space: people walk in and look around with

their noses up in the air.

Yet I find it very challenging to photograph. I didn't want to use a

20mm lens to preserve the right perspective. This is what I was able

to do with a 50mm lens.

Any opinions on this picture and advice or suggestions are very much

appreciated.

If you know of other pictures of the same subject, can you please

point me to it.

thanks.

Mike, thanks for your kind comment.

Indeed Tri-x is a great film. Please note that for all of the pictures here, the film has been pushed 2 stops (to 1600 ISO).

Paulo,

thanks for you comment and advice.

I agree, the crop -as it is- is not very effective.

I have now uploaded a different crop.

However there is nothing I can do about the legs:

The shot is not staged (I don't even know the couple),it was taken from considerable distance with a 300mm lens.. I saw them kissing, grabbed the camera, framed and shot, all in a couple of seconds.

...but I think it would have been even more "surprising" if the girl and the woman had been in a specular pose, and possibly dressed in a similar fashion.

THEN I would have had to look twice at the picture to understand what was going on.

The pop singer "Pink", has done something similar in the video clip for "family portrait".

thanks to all for the suggestions.

I have corrected the tilt.

I had cropped out most of the empty sky but stepped back:I think the square format works better.

I think this is the best shot in this folder.

I couldn't quite get a sense of scale with the close-up pictures (which are beatiful nonetheless).

I took this picture with my Nikon, while metering to shoot with a

Mamiya 645. The full frame didn't look too good, but I think the

square format "saves" it.

Please advise on the composition. Does it work? How could this shot be

improved?

Thanks.

Astonishingly crisp.

Out of curiosity, what are the original file dimensions in pixels?

I shot two pictures of this station some time ago, while coming down

on an escalator.

I can't decide which one works best: the one in this critique request

or

this one.

While shooting I wanted to convey how massive the space enclosed was,

and, at the same time how armoniously the lines of this station are

designed.