a small bar - Sarajevo Photo

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a small bar in Sarajevo, near the market

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arizonaride (123) 2007-11-03 12:02

Hi Maciej,

Your picture has a nice athmosphere, it looks like a place where you'd enjoy taking a rest. It looks clean and clear.
Light and colors are good, the only point is that it's a little tilted. I'll try a WS, hope you'll like it.
Thanks for sharing !

Emma

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bombilla (3402) 2007-11-03 12:35

Hi, Maciej. Why make a fan on the ceiling half the focus of this scene? I think you should go back to your original file and crop out the ceiling altogether. Just leave the very interesting bottom half of this frame instead. Best, -Hugh

mirarer (4427) 2007-11-03 14:25

Hola Maciej,
Siento no estar de acuerdo con "bombilla". Yo creo que precisamente lo que hace que está foto sea diferente y tenga algo especial es precisamente ese POV diferente que acentua la sensación de vacio y de lugar fuera del tiempo que desprende la foto. Tampoco creo que importe nada que esté ligeramente inclinada.
Saludos,
Mirari.

designsoul (21394) 2007-11-03 16:18

Haha, Maciej, a good one. That fan, the glowing greenish neon lights, the purple bar with those bar stools, the Escher in the middle and the woman below... all giving me a haunted house atmosphere in a rather oddball and touching way. If it were bw, it would recall Jarmusch... excellent. Good to see you back.
sasa

Furachan (0) 2007-11-04 3:40

Hello Maciej: this one is all about color and mixed lighting... it's a funky scene well handled (with the inevitable 24-105 distortion at the wide end..). The only thing I wold say is hat shots like this really have to be printed LARGE so one can enjoy the full impact of all those details. It is a shot that suffers from the necessary size restrictions of our site. Nice work - I lok forward to more from Sarejevo.
Al the best,
Francis

scalerman (25787) 2007-11-04 5:39

M: wonderful detail, POV, and comp. Great atmosphere. Have you gotten a job yet?

c

michiels (4170) 2007-11-04 6:25

hello Maciej,

What i like most is the mix of colours, all with its own temperatures that gives a beautiful composition and gives that really special mood. the photo is one that can have a thousand explanations, you can fill it in with your own imagination ... very nice one, documentary and yet very poetic at the same time.
greetings, inn

Darren (6819) 2007-11-04 9:10

Hi Maciek. Good to see a post from you. I do like that you are not relying on a formula in choosing your uploads; I am sure you know this won't get hundreds of points and I like that you upload it anyways. Here, I really like the colors and lighting in general and for the most part I like the composition. For me though, there is a little too much ceiling. I am not sure how you could get around this, as less ceiling would mean cropping the fan, which is probably not great. Anyways, as it is, I just wish it was different. Good to see you posting Maciek.

greg (2835) 2007-11-06 2:12