Water Fountain, Trastevere, Rome

TFC, The thumbnail gave pastel or subdued hues that were interesting. On opening, its clear they aren't the result of digital diddling and are soft - as they would be in soft light/rainy day. Its really pleasing. I wouldn't have guessed Ektar could render this way.

I don't know where this Ektar-doubting comes from, or more accurately, I don't know why so many folks think that Ektar must be the second coming of Velvia. It's not - it's the second coming of Kodachrome. I just hope by my posting my examples, I convince more folks to use this film. It's absolutely beautiful, and capable of as much subtlety or brashness as you need it to.

A nice picture but would crop just to the right of the street sign pole removing it. I don't need that street on the left for depth but instead the crop forces me to encounter that open door and stairway, which is more interesting to me. Who knows, it could be a pub and the water from the fountain reminds me I need a drink. The crop also gives me a dominant foreground and an interesting and slightly mysterious background giving the picture movement.

blansky said:

A nice picture but would crop just to the right of the street sign pole removing it. I don't need that street on the left for depth but instead the crop forces me to encounter that open door and stairway, which is more interesting to me. Who knows, it could be a pub and the water from the fountain reminds me I need a drink. The crop also gives me a dominant foreground and an interesting and slightly mysterious background giving the picture movement.

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While I see what you mean about your crop, that's also changing what this picture is from my intent (part of my Portraits of Ordinary Objects series) to inserting your own narrative on the photo. As a viewer, you are of course welcome to insert your own narrative into the image. My intent, however, is not to create a narrative of fountain+doorway=Miller Time. I can only work with what's there in the scene - short of busting out Photoshop to eliminate the sign post in the background (which I might very well do, but is off-topic for APUG), I can't very well capture the fountain to show it, its operation, and the graffiti on the fountain in any other way that isolates it more/sufficiently reduces the background to a detail-less blur.