karpaty

Very nice picture! I like your work. :o)

Nice to see someone using plate cameras, makes me wish I was using one... I miss my 5x4. :(

I like the fence, I agree with you Blagoy, if you lost it the photo becomes yet another 'nice' landscape. With it in it becomes something much more.

Beautiful work btw.

Is this shot in infared? where is it taken?

I agree, a haunting image well executed!

Joshua...

...whatever. I like this, it is the first shot of yours I looked at. It caught my eye and I would consider that a successful picture. It is a little overexposed and if it were me I'd work on the wall a bit in photoshop to bring it down a bit. I feel that it would make the shoe stand out more.

Or alternatively I'd scan the negative twice (once for the shadows and once for the highlights) and then combine them to balance out the photo.

Very nice though. :o)

Here is the modified image, what do you think?

Thanks very much for the comments David. The basic effect was produced by duplicating the layer, blurring it with Gaussian blur (around 20-30 px if i remember correctly, maybe more) and setting the mode to multiply. This gave it the initial dark, moodly effect. Then some of the pigeons were selectively painted back on the second layers' mask (as was the old man). I've uploaded the unmanipulated image to let you see the difference.

The Piazza San Michele - here Julius Caesar held the Triumvirate with Crassus and Pompey in 56BC. The square was unusually empty but for this old man feeding the pigeons.

Comments appreciated! :o)