Some Indoor Photos

chantal7 · Feb 8, 2009

Some photos I took of a hotel we were staying at. From pictures 3 to 6, I wasn't sure which one I liked best, so I posted them all, hehe.

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sambrody44 · Feb 8, 2009

Are 3-6 the same picture?

chantal7 · Feb 8, 2009

sambrody44 said:
Are 3-6 the same picture?

Nope, separate pictures. Took them all, trying different angles and such... but most of them are very similar.

sambrody44 · Feb 8, 2009

I would suggest, when experimenting with different angles of the same subject, to pick the one you like the most to display.

Hobbes · Feb 9, 2009

sambrody44 said:
I would suggest, when experimenting with different angles of the same subject, to pick the one you like the most to display.

Well she said in the first post that she wasn't sure which one she liked the most so she just posted them all. I have done that too and had people complaining and nitpicking as well

lol.

Anyway the more I look at the first picture the more I like it. I guess it's the sun shining through the entrance and the creepy old looking walls that makes it so interesting. Well done!

chantal7 · Feb 9, 2009

sambrody44 said:
I would suggest, when experimenting with different angles of the same subject, to pick the one you like the most to display.

Yeah, I usually do that, but this time I felt like posting a few more than usual, to see what others thought. I have taken a few more than these ones, so technically, I did pick out my favorites; but now I gotta pick out my favorites from the favorites - lol.

Eh, thanks Hobbes - seems most like the first one the best so far.

Hobbes · Feb 10, 2009

heh Well it's not like there are rules against you posting two or more pictures that look similar

. I think the second picture would look really good if the lights on the ceiling were off and that old chandelier was on.

jv17 · Feb 10, 2009

i like the way you capture those photos..

DanCanon · Feb 10, 2009

The brick photos look cool too if you rotate them so they look like they are the floor.

rufus5150 · Feb 10, 2009

#1 has some good things going for in in terms of balancing the light and the negative space. It's got good leading lines that terminate in a focal point. Excluding the ceiling was an excellent choice. This is very pleasant image to look at.

#2 Including the ceiling takes the mystique away from the image (that same mystique that's there in #1). By including the overhead lights, it looks underexposed esp re: the dangling light fixture. Where it blows out, you can see some pretty heavy chromatic aberration (purple halos around the lights).

The others don't do anything for me. Good experiments with DOF but they're under-exposed with a fairly narrow tonal range. (The latter would likely be mostly eliminated by a proper exposure.)

FWIW, I keep scrolling down while writing this to sneak looks at #1 over and over again. I really like it.

RichardA · Feb 10, 2009

I really like the pics......the brick shots stand out to me though.

surfingfireman · Feb 11, 2009

I am pretty much with Rufus. #1 is the only one that I really like. It has a very horror movie feeling to it. Makes me wonder if it was creepy staying at this hotel...?

chantal7 · Feb 11, 2009

rufus5150 said:
#1 has some good things going for in in terms of balancing the light and the negative space. It's got good leading lines that terminate in a focal point. Excluding the ceiling was an excellent choice. This is very pleasant image to look at. Thanks glad you like it!

#2 Including the ceiling takes the mystique away from the image (that same mystique that's there in #1). By including the overhead lights, it looks underexposed esp re: the dangling light fixture. Where it blows out, you can see some pretty heavy chromatic aberration (purple halos around the lights). Yeah, I totally know what you mean here. The ceiling ruined that one, haha

The others don't do anything for me. Good experiments with DOF but they're under-exposed with a fairly narrow tonal range. (The latter would likely be mostly eliminated by a proper exposure.) What do you mean by tonal range? Never heard of that before.

FWIW, I keep scrolling down while writing this to sneak looks at #1 over and over again. I really like it. Haha

RichardA said:
I really like the pics......the brick shots stand out to me though.

They stand out? How so? They are kinda underexposed

surfingfireman said:
I am pretty much with Rufus. #1 is the only one that I really like. It has a very horror movie feeling to it. Makes me wonder if it was creepy staying at this hotel...?

Haha - it was a cool feeling standing in there. It was definitely something different, that's for sure. I wouldn't say it was creepy, although it appears that way.

rufus5150 · Feb 11, 2009

What do you mean by tonal range? Never heard of that before.

When you have something that doesn't have a wide range of colors (think like a black and white image, or a sepia image, or the image there of the bricks where the predominant and probably all colors fall within a very narrow range), the way you create dynamism and interest is to vary the tones from light to dark. Wide ranges o those will, in many cases (but of course not always) create a better image.

chantal7 · Feb 11, 2009

rufus5150 said:
When you have something that doesn't have a wide range of colors (think like a black and white image, or a sepia image, or the image there of the bricks where the predominant and probably all colors fall within a very narrow range), the way you create dynamism and interest is to vary the tones from light to dark. Wide ranges o those will, in many cases (but of course not always) create a better image.

I think I understand what you mean, hehe,

Wide ranges as in one like this, instead of the other way around? (except, I totally underexposed this picture - lol)