Abandoned church

• SoulSurround

• Feb 7, 2007

The tonality of this print is - to my opinion - very nice. It's good a great "moody" feel to it. The composition is quite masculin (read: "horizontally aligned with sharp perspective lines"). I guess what I "miss" would be a "centre of attention"... but then again I am a portrait kind of person, so what do I know.

 

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  Marc Leest

• Feb 7, 2007

I like the tonality, but i would have printed it at .5 to 1 grade higher. Composition wise i would have used a portrait format and left out most of the left black zone.

 

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  clogz

• Feb 7, 2007

Very nice picture. I agree with Marc: crop a bit of the left side. The centre of interest is there: the table and the litter on the floor. It could be the scan or my monitor but the light part of the left wall would benefit from a bit of burning-in.

 

• SoulSurround

• Feb 8, 2007

Now I need to reply again ;-). Cropping off the left side really changes the picture; the strong lines will disappear then, resulting in a - to me - "more flat" composition. Also burning in the highlight will probably make the picture more dull... but then again, I guess I am not a "true b/w person" as I don't care too much about burnt parts as long as they add to instead of distract from the concept.

 

• Vera

• Feb 8, 2007

Thank you for the comments.
Crop on the left or not? Because I'm a beginner with my 6*6 camera, I wanted to use the full frame. The square format is for me a challenge to find a good composition.
The use of .5 or 1 higher grade? The scan is softer then the original print.

 

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  naaldvoerder

• Feb 24, 2007

Don't crop...Square is beautifull....!

Jaap Jan

 

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  Willie Jan

• Mar 9, 2007

i too agree with the contrast grade of +1. Besides that i would have placed the door in the horizontal middle so that the left and right black area would have the same dimension.