Terra Cotta in Architecture 1 Posted June 6, 2002 This was a hard picture to take. I had some great, warm sunset light and a rapidly-changing sky, but no tripod and Velvia in my FE. I wanted to catch as much detail in the terra cotta figures as possible, while catching the contrast and warm tones in the old wall and keeping everything within focus. Since Velvia tends to black out shadows like this, I accepted this and tried to play off the shadows on the wall - extending the natural line of the wall straight through with the shadow. My favorite thing about this photo is, of course, the color, but also the wall texture and variety. It reminds me of Italy.
Terra Cotta
in Architecture
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This was a hard picture to take. I had some great, warm sunset light
and a rapidly-changing sky, but no tripod and Velvia in my FE. I
wanted to catch as much detail in the terra cotta figures as
possible, while catching the contrast and warm tones in the old wall
and keeping everything within focus. Since Velvia tends to black out
shadows like this, I accepted this and tried to play off the shadows
on the wall - extending the natural line of the wall straight through
with the shadow. My favorite thing about this photo is, of course,
the color, but also the wall texture and variety. It reminds me of
Italy.