Black and White in Color

[Old Timer]

I posted this one as part of thread in Viewfinder but would like a little feed back on it form you guys. This type subject will sometimes give me fits from an exposure standpoint. A photo with strong whites and blacks presents a number of problems. How about this one.

[Coastal Flyer]

OT:

The exposier appears to be just fine to me. Detail in the brick is great, detail in the door is great. You seem to have captured it here.

CF

[Yoyo Szeto]

Hi Old Timer,
I like the oxymoronic title. The moss adds another dimension to the shot. The exposure also appears fine to me. Maybe just me, an image of chair comes to my mind when I look at the photo.
yoyo

[jbaldocchi]

Your image looks well done to me. They just don't make entrances like that anymore.

Jim B.

[Overbeyond]

Maybe it's me Old Timer but I think it is leaning back and tilting to the right somewhat.
Other than that it is a lovely clean and attractive image.
Tom

[mtbbrian]

Technically, I think this is great Larry.
The whites are just right so you get some detail. The same with the blacks, even though they don't have as much texture.
I am with Tom, on the tilt to the right.
Brian

[Old Timer]

Thanks for the feed back on this image I appreciate the time and effort each of you have made. This is a photo that I was pretty pleased with mainly because I seemed to get the exposure right under conditions that will many times throw even the best meters into a tail spin. I reverted to some older manual metering tactics and they seem to work just fine. As to the tilt you are probably right. I decided to try and keep the step as straight as possible since they were in the foreground and I thought would be more noticeable if slanted. The door does look tilted. As to the perspective that was difficult in that I could not get as far back as I would have like for two reasons. One was I would have been standing in the middle of a rather busy street and the other was that it would put me even farther below the building since I would have had to step down about two more feet and that would have accentuated the perspective even more give the 28mm that this was shot with. Thanks again for the input I can always count on the Critique Forum.

[Greg McCary]

I think the framing is well done and the exposure is perfect. The curved railings also gives the image depth. The tilt don't really bother me since the stairs are level.
Greg

[readingr]

OT,

Nicely shot, however the shot is tilting to the right and putting me off. I wouldn't necesserilly rotate it but use the skew to drag the photo to the left and right to get the uprights parallel.

I can see the difficulty in getting this (honour is due)

Roger

[Old Timer]

Thank you Greg and Roger for the encouraging comments. Roger I tried everything on this last night but couldn't seem to get it. Not sure I know what skew it. I little help on that please.

[readingr]

Thank you Greg and Roger for the encouraging comments. Roger I tried everything on this last night but couldn't seem to get it. Not sure I know what skew it. I little help on that please.

I use PSE so it may be found in different place,

First get some space aroung the picture to pull out the bounding box.

Get to skew from Image - Transform - Skew

When the bounding box comes up you pull the top squares out to right and left until the door is upright.

Job done.

I tested it on the image and then deleted it; looks much better.

Roger

[Old Timer]

I use PSE so it may be found in different place,

First get some space aroung the picture to pull out the bounding box.

Get to skew from Image - Transform - Skew

When the bounding box comes up you pull the top squares out to right and left until the door is upright.

Job done.

I tested it on the image and then deleted it; looks much better.

Roger

Thanks Roger I'll give it a try this evening.

[gahspidy]

OT, As stated already, the exposure looks great and the framing and symetry is good. I agree with the comments about the tilt to the right. The right side is straight with the frame but the left is not quite. Skewing as Roger described will work here although the door may look a little wider afterwards. It will improve, though. Good work

[Old Timer]

Thanks Gary. I intend to give that a try. I've been gone most of the weekend and just got back to the computer tonight.