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 Júnior 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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