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When I saw this gate I thought it would be a nice picture...

What do you think? Is it too simple? lacking of interest?...

Thanks a lot for your comments

It could be interesting, Irma, but it needs sharpness to bring out the texture. Try monochrome too.

Thanks a lot Don!! I will do it...

i like it alot and agree with Don, mono might be nice too.

keep this place in mind next time you have a model to shoot, i think it would be a great background for a portrait.

Here is the original picture sharper and with a slight change of color.... I worked it B&W and I didn't like it...



I took this picture because I see some symmetry on it... and also because I saw the big entrance for a lorry pehaps, then the entry for people and then the little hole for the cat... based on this relation and thinking that the original might be too vage I worked again with this crop...



Maybe the picture doesn't work at all... maybe it would be more interesting if I had a cat in the door? ... Anyway this is a place I can go again and take more pictures if there were something to improve...

Schellamo Wrote:i like it alot and agree with Don, mono might be nice too.

keep this place in mind next time you have a model to shoot, i think it would be a great background for a portrait.

Schell... you were writing your post while I was sending mine...

Thanks a lot for your comment... great idea!!! ... maybe it might work with Nina's photo session...

Hi Irma, I like your last crop best.........I agree should make a great backdrop.

Thanks Russ for your comment...

Next time I will try this composition and get more detail of the wood... I will work with colors to make it sort of rusty...... Let's see...

Thanks again

i like the subject very much. (doors always facinate me, probably it's what on the other side, but that's just me.)

the 1st pic is to central for my liking. doors are normally symentrical and balanced. suggest that crop of the right side to introduce some imbalance to the image, reason why i chose the right was to retain those stains on the left wall. it also helps lead the eye to the little door on the right, this door within a door breaks the monotony of the big doors.

hope you don't mind my attempt in b&w. nothing special, some burning to darken the white wall on the left and bottom of the shot, and a bit of dodging to lighten the top of the picture.



just my 2 cents...

There is no problem you played with my picture... I love the change!!! Thanks a lot!!!

You really have a very nice composition here... and you got detail I had already burned with my pp... I like your B&W much better from what I got... yours is fantastic

Thanks so much for your advice... I really apreciate it much...

I can't stop looking at it... I really love it

no worries Irma.

and another thing with images like this, if you were to print it, print it big, real BIG.

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I liked the cropped colour version better.
I would rotate it slightly so the vertical and horizontal lines were vertical and horizontal

I checked it that already but I might be wrong... Thanks alastair...

Well, you know me, Irma. I always say to zoom in tighter and really define what your shot is about. I think all of the versions so far include too much wall - so I suggest a tighter crop yet...

But you know that is just my opinion - feel free to disregard or disagree.

hi

i like it the way it is...the first one.

it should be call waiting to be open..or something like that.

Thanks so much for your comment Toad... I see the relation clearer in this one... Now that I see a lot more possibilities I like more this door...
I will go again... I will try patch composition, to work with lines... because I haven't work with lines, and I would like to learn a bit, and I will try yours. In this one I will go closer to get the texture of the wood and metal... I can imagine it already... I will have the same pp as I did with the padlock...

Thanks for your comment Christian...

I like your crop too toad, I think it focus's more on the texture and grain of the wood.