Eternal night

Michel Brosius · Nov 28, 2004

Hello,

This statue is called « la Mère », le sculptor is french an his name is Laurent Mathieu-Meusnier, (1850). You can see this statue at « Père Lachaise » a very famous cemetery of Paris.
Thank you for your opinions and comments.

Michel

MDowdey · Nov 28, 2004

speechless...love the tones, love the composition...welcome to the boards!!

md

will965 · Nov 28, 2004

Amazing photo, I love it.

Nytmair · Nov 28, 2004

amazing first post!

welcome to the site

mentos_007 · Nov 28, 2004

that is wonderfull, very deep and professional. I'd say

Michel Brosius · Nov 28, 2004

Thank you very much of your appreciations and your welcome. I discovered this site by chance, I find it very sympathetic. In a friendly way, Michel

Mo · Nov 28, 2004

Beautiful picture! Fantastic first post

Picksure · Nov 28, 2004

MDowdey said:
speechless...love the tones, love the composition...welcome to the boards!!

md

Agreed. I don't think this statue could be photographed better!

Welcome to the forum.

another one that teases me with awesome B&W.

mygrain · Nov 29, 2004

Wow! great shot and subject matter! This guy needs a holga and fast!!!

BTW Michel Welcome to TPF. What are you shooting with?

jadin · Nov 29, 2004

Nicely done. Someone knows their way around a burn brush me thinks!

Any hints?

LaFoto · Nov 29, 2004

Hallo, Michel,
I've been to Père Lachaise 20 years ago, but at the time I didn't have an eye for the wonderful statues...

This photo is just brilliant.
How did you get the lighting.
Was it just there like this and you saw it and realised how special it was? Or did you set up something to bring about this light?

cactus waltz · Nov 29, 2004

I visited Père Lachaise this spring, it's a remarkable place to be at. I didn't have a camera back then, though.

The picture is incredibly beautiful, and it truly makes justice to Père Lachaise. Do you have any more shots from the same visit?

Michel Brosius · Nov 29, 2004

Hello to all,

Thank you very much for your welcome and your nice comments. I really owe you some explanations for this image. Forgive my bad English, I sometimes have difficulty in understanding you.

This image is made with: Camera Olympus Camedia c-200Zoom Lens: Olympus AF zoom 5.4-16.2mm. The day I shoot this photo, the weather was grey, no sun. I worked the image in Photoshop. Conversion B&W, then I worked the tone and the light to give it more force. I cut the image out and added a bottom (a sun slept seen from my window). I adjusted tone and light. I join you the original and another image of the same day worked also in Photoshop.
Amicalement, Michel :

www.Pere-Lachaise.com
http://lachaise.gargl.net/index.html

The good-bye

btrippy · Nov 29, 2004

Wow.. I had no idea that was 2 photo's put together. EXCELLENT photoshop work, and FANTASTIC composition of the 2!!

Beautiful shot!! I agree with everyone here, there isn't a single thing wrong with it.

JonMikal · Nov 30, 2004

Picksure said:
MDowdey said:

speechless...love the tones, love the composition...welcome to the boards!!

md

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Agreed. I don't think this statue could be photographed better!

Welcome to the forum.

DITTO DITTO DITTO!!!