The golden door Photo

Photographer’s Note

This is the most famous monument of Petra. It is also the first major monument you see as you enter the site following a 2 km walk trough a canyon.

Light condition are not great in Petra because of the excessive sunlight and the contrast between the light and shadows.

rigoletto, Emile, bostankorkulugu, robiuk, Didi has marked this note useful

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eev99 (1198) 2008-10-09 18:17

As soon as I say it knew what I was looking at.. Too much dark matter on the left.

dkeus31 (26361) 2008-10-09 23:22

bonjour Daniel,
je me demande si un format carré ne serait pas plus appropriée en coupant la gauche de l'image
didier

Jeppo (12100) 2008-10-09 23:53

same critique like Dkeus.

crop some dark on the left.
the idea is good and pleasant anyhow

ciao
Silvio

rigoletto (26774) 2008-10-10 1:35

No cropping is needed on the left. There is a crack between light and shade, and like many cracks do, this one travels through the center. Even though the world is in deep financial crisis, i can spare my two bucks for a bet, concerning the balance of light and shade in this one. Who can claim that they are not of equal geometric areas? And i find it quite interesting....
Well, they say, Petra is a difficult place to make good photos. I need to go there and see myself, in order to decide it. But here contrarily, you show us that it is not that difficult to make good photos over there. When you have the guts, so little thing is difficult...

hay_kes (28562) 2008-10-10 14:10

Hi Daniel,
Wooww!! A wonderful architectural view vith great POV, colours and lighting.TFS.
Cheers,

hAyAti

Emile (20117) 2008-10-10 21:20

Hola Daniel.
Una impresionante obra de los Nabateos, creo que ese es el edificio de La Tesorería, ahora Petra es una de las 7 maravillas del mundo, tu has logrado una excelente foto de esta famosa arquitectura la mejor conservada del lugar, creo que si te hubieras movido dos pies a la derecha conseguirías una vista mas amplia del monumento dejando una parte mas pequeña como silueta, pero con solo estar ahí y poner esta foto en TE para nosotros disfrutar del importante monumento es mas que suficiente.
Abrazos.

MarcT (21103) 2008-10-11 6:15

Salut Daniel,
Ton idée est originale. On dirait un effet de puzzle... Pourquoi pas? C'est bien vu
Marc

bostankorkulugu (33976) 2008-10-11 7:17

i like the amout of the dark part here, besides it is not black only dark with some details even... petra is always speel-binding... in any composition... and i like your version a lot my friend...

(so, single again ;)...)

robiuk (10763) 2008-10-12 15:09

Hi Daniel,
Lovely natural presentation and I'm not bothered that
much with half of the frame showing the shadowed area.
After all, it IS a high-contrast area and those who don't
know what it's like to be in these light conditions, they
will only see the solution in editing it as an HDR (if that's
what pleases them).
I think you did a good job with colours and highlights,
and my only suggestion would be lens correction, but that's
not THAT important, of course.
Cheers,
Robi

Didi (36434) 2008-12-04 18:06

Salut Daniel
Cette place est difficile à photographier à cause de l'affluence touristique d'une part et c'est pas simple de choisir le moment de prise de vue à cause des horaires de visites imposées, mais ton cadrage serré est intéressant.
Amitiés.