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Deviousness `anmari has been spreading her infectious positivity throughout our community for over 6 years. Throughout this time Ana has been at the core of all things devious, passionately developing an eclectic gallery, helping organise devmeets, participating in chat events and also recently completed dedicating her time as a Community Volunteer. We are absolutely delighted to bestow the Deviousness Award for May 2013 to `anmari, congratulations! Read More
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This photo has a beautiful entrancing look to it. I love how you captured the shadows right inside the curves, and how you captured the way the colors changed gradually. These kinds of architectural details never fail to amaze me
Since you mentioned working with levels, I would suggest bringing up the shadows a little bit, because it fades away enough at the bottom right that you start to lose detail. But then again, raising the brightness of the shadows would also amplify the noise, the other issue with this - there's a lot of extra noise. I don't know what ISO you used for this, but there's some unnecessary noise. If you lower the ISO (of course, consequently, you may have to use a tripod in order to keep a longer shutter speed steady), it'd be clearer and have a better impact.
In addition, I think you might want to crop off the right side just a little more. It would probably have a better impact either solely on the left side of the "spike" or a little more to the right, and considering you said you cropped out repairs and lights, I would assume it'd be more natural to crop it off to the left.
I understand that lighting in a theater can be tricky, and you did a great job capturing the structure as it is. Great work!
And I don't know if I understood, but when I tried cropping to the left (just in the tip of the spike) I didn't like how it turned out (IMO, looked like it was "incomplete") probably because I know how it was before. And cropping to the right would reveal a couple of reflectors.
I can understand not being able to use a tripod in a theater.
I haven't actually tried cropping it; maybe it does look better this way. It's your call as the photographer
Good call on the close crop! I like the play of shadows off the facets of the, uh, structure.
Although you might not want to show the photo at actual size, though, because it's not the sharpest of photos-- and I don't blame you, theatres are always darker than they should be-- and it's always best not to reveal too much, like you did with the cropping. (:
All in all, a nice and intriguing piece!