Response to Urban Decay (Response #21)

Uploaded 652 Days Ago by randreac - 14 comments

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chulsmith said 652 days ago:

nice capture - i would have liked a tighter crop on the right and left sides as the blurred bricks are a bit of a distraction.

EmilyHorne said 652 days ago:

Wish you would have taken a step forward...or cropped... I am totally distracted with the foreground

EmilyHorne said 652 days ago:

Wish you would have taken a step forward...or cropped... I am totally distracted with the foreground

Ana said 652 days ago:

i see what you were doing with the doorway, but I think it ended up being distracting. I've shot this exact kind of building, and the lighting wasn't easy to deal with.

pointnshoot said 652 days ago:

nice work. However, the foreground being out of focus is a bit disturbing to me.

randreac said 652 days ago:

It's the famous prison in St. Petersbug Russia. I was lucky to get any photo of it let alone one with out the narrow prison slit of a window in the foreground.

uncommondepth said 652 days ago:

Great subject, but I don't like the framing. The foreground doorway is distracting both because of the blurring; and it seems overexposed and too high of contrast. Could you have stepped in a little closer to eliminate that?

Puppatina said 652 days ago:

This is great!

themetree said 652 days ago:

just perfect for this theme. great shot. all 5s

Puppatina said 652 days ago:

Now that I've read the comments I wanted to say that I like the blurred foreground.

feelingdave said 652 days ago:

I really like this photo. I like the sun reflections on the ground and walls.

philippe said 652 days ago:

Nice! Maybe the blur is a bit distracting?

blinking8s said 648 days ago:

the foreground element seems destracting, the bricks that frame the edges of the photo. Without the hotspots I may have overlooked it more though. Revisit this, kickup some dust, late afternoon with some killer light beams, it could be totally sick.

randreac said 648 days ago:

Sure, ^^^ how about I ask them for the keys to the Kremlin as well? There should be some sort of submit box for a mini description to give context for photos.

Again, this is INSIDE the Prison at the Peter & Paul's Fortress in St. Petersburg Russia. The prison is completely off limits to the public except for what you could see through the tiny slits they had in the outer walls for "windows", the foreground is the edges of that window which could not be avoided. I stuck my hand all the way in the slit and managed to hold my hand still for 4-5 seconds to get this shot. Inside the prison is pretty much darkness and this was the only way I could see inside.

As you can see, the Russians have no interest in keeping up this part of the fortress.

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