Photo taken in Ottawa Ontario Canada With 70-200 2.8L on Canon A2E

Posted by David Robinson on Monday, June 29, 1998 at 18:39:57 [ Back to Index | Home | Previous Image | Next Image ]

Comments by Matthew Reyes (mreyes@inreach.com, from 209.142.19.34) on Monday, June 29, 1998 at 21:43:05 I like everything but the planter in front. Nice image. Comments by David Birkbeck (ferrari@earthlink.net, from 1cust161.tnt22.tco2.da.uu.net) on Tuesday, June 30, 1998 at 18:40:47 Good exposure. Yep its too bad that you couldn't move the planter and sweep up alittle. This image is so clean and sharp the trash and the planter add a distracting element. Comments by Filippo Caroti (philmc@tin.it, from a-rm22-57.tin.it) on Wednesday, July 1, 1998 at 06:05:19 Hello David. Like the others I think it's a pity for the planter. But you couldn't do anything about it. It seems to me that the lamp is a little darker than the front wall of the staircase: this is distracting from the main subject, which I think is the lamp itself. But this could be a printing or scanning problem. I like the geometry of the overall shot: very neat. Comments by Pete Dickson (, from pg2proxy.pg.com) on Wednesday, July 1, 1998 at 10:53:01 Well done! I like the geometric feel of this photograph. I wish the shadow of the lamp didn't merge with the window, but that's a minor nit. Comments by nico (mostert@es.co.nz, from p44-max2.dun.ihug.co.nz) on Thursday, July 2, 1998 at 00:55:09 What about cropping the planter out, I do not think your exposure would lose any of it's impact. Comments by Will Firestone (wwf@pclink.com, from pm6-33.pclink.com) on Sunday, July 5, 1998 at 18:04:16 This image has many good elements in it. The diagonal of the staircase with it's shapely supports ties in well with the lamp's spheres and shadow. The differing views of the windows give a dynamic feel as does the interplay of the angles described by the sidewalk, the lamp to it's shadow, and the staircase. The planter does detract somewhat from the overall image, but I don't think cropping it out would help as I think you need to have that bit of the sidewalk at the bottom to retain image's feeling of depth.