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Ajar
Image Title:  Ajar
 
 By: Omar Rifaat  
  Copyright ©2005



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Photographer Omar Rifaat {K:10135}
Project #44 Shadows Camera Model Nikon FM2n
Categories Architecture
Cityscape
Travel
Film Format
Portfolio Intensity
Places
Lens Nikon  MF 24mm f/2.8
Uploaded 3/6/2005 Film / Memory Type Fuji  Provia RDP III
    ISO / Film Speed 100
Views 345 Shutter
Favorites Aperture f/
Critiques 15 Rating
5.92
/ 6 Ratings
Location City -  Zaragoza
State -  ARAGON
Country - Spain   Spain
About Abandoned railway station, Zaragoza.

Unfortunately, the scan of this slide is not as good as I would have liked. The original retains the blue of the sky and exposure is perfect. Not sure if there is a way to reproduce the real quality without inviting you all over and getting the projector out!
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There are 15 Comments in 1 Pages
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Judi Liosatos   {K:34047} 3/6/2005
I would've loved to have seen it in full form. The idea and the composition is spot on though.

Thankyou so much my sweet friend for your comment. I love reading your words.

Judi


aLi Naghizadeh   {K:19447} 3/6/2005
Great shot !! Great composition !!
Well done !!

Regards,
aLi


Teunis Haveman   {K:52857} 3/6/2005
Omar. beautiful light
Teunis


Fabrizio Fiorucci   {K:4871} 3/6/2005
Well spotted, and quite melancholic to tell you the truth. But I like the feelings coming from it. Nice job.


Jeanette Hägglund   {K:59855} 3/7/2005
Superb play with light and shadow Omar. I like the compsoition you made by the light through the door. Excellent!



Jeanette


Bea Friedli   {K:9834} 3/7/2005
nice image Omar ! I love the textures and light inside this building.


Khaled Mursi Hammoud   {K:53382} 3/8/2005
Nice shot Omar.
I like how you placed this old door on the left side of the image and the light comming through it like a line directed towards the right lower corner of the image.
Also framing a tree in the background with the door is very artistic.
Good work my friend,
Khaled.


Jonathan Charles   {K:5389} 3/11/2005
Dramatic composition evoking the existential pain of comparing the depressing dark inner space with the bright living world apparently waiting outside and breaking in with a shaft of sunlight so it can't be ignored.

The only (minor) changes i would suggest are straightening up the doorway and cloning out the straight pole outside (ideally substituting a bird or 2 flying past !)

Best wishes, Jonathan

PS (the sky problem): if you make 2 scans, one darker and one lighter and put them on 2 layers you can use a high contrast copy of the image as a mask to show the darker scan in the highlight areas and the lighter scan in the shadow areas - keeping the details and colours through the whole dynamic range.


Omar Rifaat   {K:10135} 3/13/2005
Jonathan,
Thanks for your very useful tip. I will have to try the double scan technique. Unfortunately I don?t own a film scanner, I just get the lab to scan the slide at processing time. Another reason to invest in one myself!

Although I?m generally an advocate of the "au naturel" school, I agree that perhaps in this case some PS work might be beneficial. If I have some time I will play around and maybe repost..
Regards
Omar


Lea Mulqueen   {K:7396} 3/14/2005
I like this image a lot. I conveys a mood of desplation. But, I do agree with the comments of Jonathon Charles.


Thilo Bayer   {K:50355} 3/14/2005
Hi Omar,

I can only give you the advice to use tools like vuescan and especially several passes. you may obtain more detail.

anyway, nice near bw composing. strong contrasts here.

best wishes,

thilo


cessy karina   {K:14205} 3/17/2005
very nice composition, dark and light, Omar
too bad about the scan


Massimo Di Maggio   {K:-55870} 3/17/2005
I see your point, but the white sky isn?t disturbing me at all, on the contrary it adds a great contrast with the darkness in the old building and fits very well with the strong light coming from the door, also the tilted door adds a ?abandonment? feeling to the image. Bye, Max


Maria José Barres   {K:11276} 3/19/2005
Nice work!
Greetings!


Ahmad Hasan   {K:4209} 3/20/2005
very nice it gives a real sense of the place


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