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Published: 2009-04-29 21:43:58 +0000 UTC; Views: 1470; Favourites: 60; Downloads: 0
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Some stairs at Nydalen subway station in Oslo Norway.This was the subway station I used every weekday for 6 months, and I didn't even know about these stairs before a guy at work mentioned that I might be interested in taking pictures of them. How is it possible to miss out these great stairs? It's not like Nydalen is an especially big station or anything...
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Adjusted the wb in camera raw. Turned up the contrast pretty much with a black and white layer set to soft light (80%) where the darkest areas were partly masked out. Lightened and turned up the contrast a bit more with a curves layer and lightened the highlights on the walls with another one.
Converted the picture to black and white. and cropped to square.
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I'm sat here thinking... "I want to critique that, but I can't see anything I'd change"... e.deviantart.com/emoticons/b/b⦠" width="15" height="15" alt="
However, I am going to attempt at least to extol what may be more personal preferences for my own taste, but that's not to say this shot isn't fabulous anyway!
The only things I would like to see are those that I would have had to have been there in person to try, such as taking a slightly wider angle and shooting somewhat more diagonally to get that lower staircase in shot, as it is it's there but something's telling me I want to see more. As I said, it's a great shot, and to fulfil my personal wishes I'd probably have had to take 2 or 3 different shots, all of which would have been as equally acceptable as this one!
I would also like to see how this works in a 1:1.25 format frame with a little less wall and more contrasty interest in the form of stair shadows filling the frame.
All subjective! You've inspired me and that's a good thing, I really should do more of this kind of thing! Thank you e.deviantart.com/emoticons/s/s⦠" width="15" height="15" alt="
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I'm very glad you did "spill out" your personal preferences, it's always interesting to see how others see my work and what they would have liked to do themselves, things that maybe would be something to think about for another time.
Also it "forces" me to look at the picture with new eyes, and try out new things, which is good.
I took tons of pictures of these stairs, from the bottom, from the middle, looking up and down and viewing it in all kind of different ways, taking pictures in portrait format, landscape format, tilted, straight, tiptoeing and almost laying on the ground, but not for one second did I even think about looking at the stairs in any different way than this, straight on, from above. I guess the fact that I could "barely" look over the wall that is placed between my standing point and the view is a really bad excuse
I did try out a 1:1.25 format [link] . At first I didn't like it very much, the stairs got a lot of more focus, but it kind of felt a bit claustrophobic in a way.
Now I think it actually looks pretty good, but I think I still might prefer the square; with a lot of emptiness at the sides which I think to some degree really emphasis the stairs, make them stand out.
I'm so glad that it inspired you. It kind of makes me feel like I'm giving something back for all of your pictures that has inspired me
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You're welcome Γ
sta, as I said, those other angles would have been for my own personal pleasure 
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Sometimes the best the best shots are the most unexpected
great work!!
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looks like a scene from Perfect Dark the video game.. remember that?
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I've never heard about that game
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I love this cold, black and white, metallic ambient
Great photo.
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Thank you very much
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Great, real feeling of depth and height with this one.
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