The Long Tunnel, a photo from Kinmen, Other

Photographer's Note

OK. This is a repost from one of the images of yesterday's montage. After looking at it several times, and through the opinion of danby1 I've decided to upload the image on it's own. This time it's in a vertical format. I altered the levels ever so slightly, cropped and sharpened it.

Maybe this image would look better with somebody in it, but you'll have to take my word for it that there really wasn't anyone else there but myself. I tried using myself as a model, but I ended up looking like a prat!

If you want some details about the tunnel, please see my last photo (the original post).

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myongkie (33) 2006-09-08 5:49 [Comment]

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Izobretenik (1268) 2006-09-08 5:53

I think that this picture would gain a lot with someone walking by. Not an easy one to manage and the sharpness is pretty impressive in my point of view. Everytime I try to take such a picture, the grain would be something annoying, so much I would not even think about posting the picture.

The title can't be clearer here and that's also something I like : being simple. I would maybe crop a bit on the right to have a balanced composition but that's a detail.

For me, the lack of human presence is something hard to handle for I don't know how to understand places, in their nudity (I mean, without living creatures around).

Izo

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vagabondtravels (6511) 2006-09-08 6:07

Hey Will

A little barren but it works. Great POV. Very graffic, it really draws your eye in. Well done.
Ben

drayde (380) 2006-09-08 6:12

Lovely? It's more creepy...
Anyway, great shot!

savask (1891) 2006-09-08 6:15

scary, mystique look. Nice shot!

haya (839) 2006-09-08 6:32 [Comment]

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Ulishna (2268) 2006-09-12 13:05

Hello Will
very nice perspective! Looks like BW, but some colors details here are very good.
Julia

Emiel_Skyfreak (3002) 2006-10-11 3:47

Good low POV and nice DOF here, great depth is created by photographing this long tunnel. I like how the lights in the ceiling cast their light on parts of the wall in the distance. Good sharpness and light management, well done.
Would wonder how it would look like with a higher POV, as the floor is crawling up, this way the tunnel looks less long cause the floor is blocking part of the sight to the distance. Maybe it would have looked longer with a higher POV.
tfs

kency (2352) 2006-10-17 23:57

Very nice work Will,well done.

BHo (2177) 2006-10-26 7:29

I enjoyed staring at this image for a few minutes. I think it would look cool shot with a 12mm lens on a full frame body as well.

jb06 (150) 2006-10-26 18:26

Great Photo, nice POV!

Liekje (574) 2007-04-21 13:23

Ooooh, it almost looks like a kinda creepy scene from a war-and-shoot videogame in which you are haunted by angry and totally crazy soldiers who kill anything that moves. You can only hear yourself breathing in this empty corridor. You constantly believe one of your enemies is right behind you and they're ready to harm you really, really bad!! You hear their footsteps and their voices talking to each other and they are so many that you cannot escape. And their weapons are so much more advanced then yours! But somehow you manage to get away...

And then you run and at the end of the tunnel where there's a helicopter waiting to guide you home safe.

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I like the close-to-the-ground POV in this one, especially because the lights on the ceiling show one that the tunnel streches beyond the floor we can see. Makes it look a little mysterious as well I guess.

travis_b (912) 2007-10-17 13:20

That looks totally scary man. Have you seen the film "The Bunker" (2001)? After you see it you'll know what I mean. I like everything about your photo. It's just very good. Top class. Cheers!