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Equipment & Techniques => Landscape & Nature Photography => Topic started by: markadams99 on October 30, 2013, 12:51:57 am

Title: Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris
Post by: markadams99 on October 30, 2013, 12:51:57 am: (http://thelightcavalry.zenfolio.com/img/s9/v92/p901777233-4.jpg)
Antique presets are always a temptation, but maybe in this case "pastiche celebrates, rather than mocks, the work it imitates."
Title: Re: Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris
Post by: Paulo Bizarro on October 30, 2013, 06:07:47 am: Nice. I like the menacing shadow.
Title: Re: Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris
Post by: francois on October 30, 2013, 06:25:49 am: Quote from: Paulo Bizarro on October 30, 2013, 06:07:47 am
Nice. I like the menacing shadow.

Agreed, it makes the shot!
Title: Re: Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris
Post by: mattpallante on October 30, 2013, 05:26:40 pm: Boy, great timing! Nice image. I'll bet the shadows were moving quickly. Early or late?

Matt
Title: Re: Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris
Post by: markadams99 on October 30, 2013, 06:54:32 pm: About 9.30am in early January. I really must return, properly to exploit those fleeting shadows.
Title: Re: Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris
Post by: Christoph C. Feldhaim on October 30, 2013, 07:12:12 pm: I agree: The Nosferatu shadows really make it ...
Nice one !
Title: Re: Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris
Post by: markadams99 on October 30, 2013, 07:32:41 pm: Now I've got to fiddle with it to get more Nosferatu:
(https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1594818/pix/pere%20lachaise%202-1.jpg)
Title: Re: Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris
Post by: luxborealis on October 30, 2013, 09:32:58 pm: Cool, very cool!
Title: Re: Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris
Post by: Jeremy Roussak on October 31, 2013, 04:44:23 am: Quote from: markadams99 on October 30, 2013, 07:32:41 pm
Now I've got to fiddle with it to get more Nosferatu:

Not an improvement, in my view. The first was very good.

Jeremy
Title: Re: Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris
Post by: Christoph C. Feldhaim on October 31, 2013, 04:55:56 am: Quote from: markadams99 on October 30, 2013, 07:32:41 pm
Now I've got to fiddle with it to get more Nosferatu:
(https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1594818/pix/pere%20lachaise%202-1.jpg)

I like it
Title: Re: Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris
Post by: Chris Calohan on November 02, 2013, 12:15:31 pm: Second edit is a bit too noir for me but I agree a return trip to exploit those shadows is definitely in order.
Title: Re: Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris
Post by: wolfnowl on November 02, 2013, 02:51:05 pm: I'd stick with the original. Given the setting, those 'fingers of time' reaching out and enclosing everything are most apt.

Mike.
Title: Re: Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris
Post by: Dave (Isle of Skye) on November 02, 2013, 08:33:27 pm: Excellent shot, but not so sure if the grungy border really adds anything to it, but the image composition, subject and processing are excellent.

Dave
Title: Re: Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris
Post by: markadams99 on November 02, 2013, 08:45:36 pm: Quote from: Dave (Isle of Skye) on November 02, 2013, 08:33:27 pm
not so sure if the grungy border really adds anything to it
Dave

It doesn't. You're right.
Title: Re: Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris
Post by: Christoph C. Feldhaim on November 03, 2013, 03:37:42 am: Quote from: Chris Calohan on November 02, 2013, 12:15:31 pm
Second edit is a bit too noir for me but I agree a return trip to exploit those shadows is definitely in order.

I understand what you mean, but for me (purely subjectively) thats just the point which makes the difference.
"Film noir stills" - no idea if that genre exists in photography, but this image would be a good example I think.
Title: Re: Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris
Post by: sdwilsonsct on November 03, 2013, 09:10:24 am: The shadow is just a little less obvious in the first version, leading to discovery by the viewer. More effective than overplaying it in the second version IMO.
Well captured.