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Killing Time Where Kings & Queens Have Passed
Killing Time Where Kings & Queens Have Passed
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Challenge: Image Grain II (Basic Editing)
Camera: Canon EOS-30D
Lens: Sigma 30mm f/1.4 EX DC HSM for Canon
Location: The steps of St Paul's Cathedral
Date: Mar 7, 2007
Aperture: f1.4
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/1250
Galleries: Emotive, Candid
Date Uploaded: Mar 7, 2007

BEFORE VOTING -
Spent the day in London today, and on my way back to the station I passed St Paul's. It struck me that is site that has seen many important events in Britain's history, and that on a day-to-day basis people simply use the steps as a place to kill time, have lunch etc...

I hope that this image gets me a PB. I think it should, but who knows? It's way off ribbon material, but I'd like to see a 6.5 - who wouldn't? One problem with this picture - the edge of the step that is visible in the bottom left corner - it distracts me, but when I've tried to re-edit I don't get the same feeling.

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03/20/2007 06:39:43 AM
These front steps of St Paul's have a certain appeal - I've never quite been able to nail it, photographically: I'm not entirely sure you've succeeded either. For me, I think the issue is that I don't see a story here, a narrative; nor do I find a particular interest in the groups of people - it's just all so very ordinary. That, of course, has its own appeal in a way, as a kind of document; but it's a photograph that one could take any and every day if one so wished, with much the same results. It is, however, technically unimpeachable - exposure and control is good, and some grain brings something to it. For my taste it could have more contrast.
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03/17/2007 09:03:39 AM
Very nice composition and the duotone suits it.
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03/14/2007 01:13:51 PM
nice composition, i like the tones.
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03/14/2007 12:53:35 PM
lovely.
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