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Equipment & Techniques => Landscape & Nature Photography => Topic started by: sailronin on April 07, 2011, 11:08:35 am

Title: Amphitheater at Aspendos, Turkey
Post by: sailronin on April 07, 2011, 11:08:35 am

(http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5062/5596402317_c460d3e981_b.jpg)

(http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5184/5596406357_43a50fc9c8_b.jpg)

Amphitheater built by the Romans ca. 180 AD in Aspendos, Turkey
Xpan w/30mm and Kodak Ektachrome 100, scanned on Epson V500

Title: Re: Amphitheater at Aspendos, Turkey
Post by: Jeremy Roussak on April 07, 2011, 01:27:06 pm

I like the second one. Personally, being generally misanthropic, I'd have taken it without the people but that's just me. Have you tried it in b&w? I think it would probably look very good.

Jeremy

Title: Re: Amphitheater at Aspendos, Turkey
Post by: langier on April 07, 2011, 05:27:03 pm

Both are cool! Well done!

The people in the second shot add scale and a human touch.

Title: Re: Amphitheater at Aspendos, Turkey
Post by: sailronin on April 07, 2011, 07:19:45 pm

thank you Jeremy and Iangler,
It was a beautiful location and a great place to shoot. I haven't tried the images in B&W do feel that people add scale and interest to the second shot.
Have a great weekend
Dave

Title: Re: Amphitheater at Aspendos, Turkey
Post by: Eric Myrvaagnes on April 07, 2011, 07:32:01 pm

Quote from: kikashi on April 07, 2011, 01:27:06 pm

I like the second one. Personally, being generally misanthropic, I'd have taken it without the people but that's just me. Have you tried it in b&w? I think it would probably look very good.

Jeremy

Ditto, on all counts.

Eric

Title: Re: Amphitheater at Aspendos, Turkey
Post by: sailronin on April 09, 2011, 06:32:05 am

(http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5065/5600941304_ab7d592183_b.jpg)

Conversion with SilverEfx Pro

Title: Re: Amphitheater at Aspendos, Turkey
Post by: langier on April 09, 2011, 03:04:34 pm

The b&w seems as though it is even stronger than the color version, IMO.

Title: Re: Amphitheater at Aspendos, Turkey
Post by: Jeremy Roussak on April 10, 2011, 03:24:41 am

Quote from: sailronin on April 09, 2011, 06:32:05 am

(http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5065/5600941304_ab7d592183_b.jpg)

Conversion with SilverEfx Pro

I like this. I think I'd try to lighten the inside of the first arch, though: it seems, as a black bar, to divide the image into two much more than was apparent in the colour version.

Jeremy

Title: Re: Amphitheater at Aspendos, Turkey
Post by: francois on April 10, 2011, 05:28:10 am

I like the first one very much but the second one is really outstanding. The B/W version is beautiful and the couple in the distance is brilliant - it add a sign of life and, as Larry said above, gives scale to those arches. The panoramic format is really well suited here.