Re: June Commentary: Eduardo Carone Costa Junior

[Eduardo Carone Costa J�nior]

PAUL STENQUIST wrote:
> Edauardo Carone Costa Junior: "Orange Dome"
> I found this image quite compelling. I like the geometric patterns and
> the symmetry. The pattern displayed on the dome interior is interesting.
> It seems to suggest a sun or even a Sun God. It resembles some Mayan
> images I've seen.
>    I'm not surprised that Eduardo had trouble scanning this photo. The
> extreme highlights in the windows combined with the subtle lighting of
> the interior surfaces make for a difficult situation for both film and
> scanner. One window highlight has burned out a section of the interior
> surface at the lower left. I might have patched that small area in
> PhotoShop, although I realize that some would consider that excessive
> tampering. I might also have cropped the image just a tiny bit and
> rotated it a degree or so to perfect the symmetry. Nevertheless, a very
> nice photograph.

Thank you for your kind words.
As I mentioned some days ago, I'm less than pleased with that photo. When
taking it, I was confronted with the K series metering inability to cope
with fast film and long exposures --- I only discovered what was happening
later, here at the PDML, reading some posts about this topic... If that were
not enough, I also had some difficulties trying to scan it to my old flatbed
scanner and compressing it to comply with PUG rules. I hope I can do better,
next time I get the chance to photograph the interior of that church...
The orange color was actually caused by a second row of windows at the inner
part of the dome... I assume they are made from colored glass.
I wonder if you could explain why do you think a little more cropping would
be better? I'm just curious and would like to learn  something more about
cropping, because, sometimes, I have difficulty when deciding how much
cropping is ok.... :-)
Thanks again,
                    Eduardo.

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