My suggestion to crop was only intended to correct the symmetry of the
two sides. If you look at the photo, you'll see the two arch shapes on
each side are almost identical. However, the area on the right is
slightly wider and its midpoint appears to be just a slight amount
lower. If you were to rotate the picture one degree or maybe even just
half a degree counterclockwise (in Photoshop) and then crop just a
slight amount to make the two arches equal, it would be perfectly
symmetrical. This isn't critical, but to my eye, something that is
almost symmetrical seems to beg for perfection. Again, it's only my
subjective opinion.
Paul
Eduardo Carone Costa J�nior wrote:
>
> PAUL STENQUIST wrote:
> > Eduardo 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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