The pool

[Cedric MASSOULIER]

http://img529.imageshack.us/img529/2346/legrandbassincy2.jpg

Pentax K10D, Sigma 12-24 DG EX

C&C are welcome !

[Cedric MASSOULIER]

This is a second version, more closed :

http://img139.imageshack.us/img139/6452/grandbassin2is0.jpg

I find it works better, isn't it ?

[Asher Kelman]

Hi Cedric,

This is a challenging scene to photograph. There's so much to see. The buildings in the b.g. with the beautiful sky showing through are all in one's mind when one takes the picture but do not appear in the frame. This is a major project and worthy of the effort. I wonder whether you might try pointing the camera up to get the wall as now but the skyline too. Just a thought. In this composition a person would be have a great setting and one could match clothes to the colors!

Asher

[Cedric MASSOULIER]

Hi Asher,

Tanhk you for your comment. This place is one of my favourite playgrounds, it's not very far from my home and i often go there to shoot photographs. As you noticed, this point of view is very hard to manage. To shoot this one, i was on my knees, using a wide-angle lens : i don't think i could have included skyline in the frame from this place. As a matter of fact, principal element of the composition is this sculpture representing a kind of germinating seed from the silver bowl in the back-ground. I tried to place it in front of the bright reflect of the central tower : light is forming a vertical tunnel which comes illuminating the sculpture which is for me both a symbol of life and of artificial nature (my favourite thema).
First version is not good enough because sky on the above right corner is disturbing. Second version is more closed and underlines the sculpture... mais not enough... I think i have to work the picture to increase light and contraste in some zones...

[Michael Fontana]

Bonjour Cedric

how about bluring the buildings?
Made a quick test, looks okay to me.

[Cedric MASSOULIER]

how about bluring the buildings?

Hi Michael,

Well... digital bluring is something i have always avoided... But i could try, indeed !
I still hesitate between frame 1 and crop of frame 2, i can't decide which is better for my idea...
Thanks for your help, i will present you following of this work a bit later.

[Asher Kelman]

Can you get up to that level?

asher

[Cedric MASSOULIER]

Can you get up to that level?

What do you mean Asher ?

[Cedric MASSOULIER]

Hi,

This is my last word :

http://img301.imageshack.us/img301/3999/legrandbassinwj4.jpg

[Brad Fernihough]

Love it.

Think i prefer the uncropped version with the sky in the right corner. it gives it some context.

Nice.

[Joe Thibodeau]

I was going to make a suggestion but you have it under control quite well.

[Asher Kelman]

What do you mean Asher ?

I meant can you go up stairs to shoot the fountain from the higher level in the background of the picture. However, I'm not sure if you would still get so much of this handsome wall. Still a view from the other direction and higher up might be interesting too.

If you are in the neighborhood!

Asher

[Doug Kerr]

Hi, Cedric,

Beautiful.

Everything in the background looks "artificial" (but very skillfully done)!