Locked doors - C & C are most welcome

[Tejal]

Here are some crops of old doors, which I have clicked in old city area some days back. Kindly share your views about different prospective to capture such type of old doors/windows.

Regards,

Tejal

IMG_3721 by Tejal Imagination, on Flickr

Cropped :

IMG_3721- by Tejal Imagination, on Flickr

Some other

IMG_3745 by Tejal Imagination, on Flickr

IMG_3747 by Tejal Imagination, on Flickr

[Shadowman]

Nicely done. It's not necessary, but you could use flash; even during the day to bring out additional textures and tones.

[Tejal]

Nicely done. It's not necessary, but you could use flash; even during the day to bring out additional textures and tones.

Thanks John for your prompt response. Even in day light (means light was good enough), flash could be more effective to bring out additional details ? I have never tried.

[DougR]

They're all good but #4 is my favorite. I love the color and texture.

[Tejal]

They're all good but #4 is my favorite. I love the color and texture.

Thanks you Doug

[Dave Humphries]

Even in day light (means light was good enough), flash could be more effective to bring out additional details ? I have never tried.

I can see what John is getting at with the suggestion of using flash, but I think on-camera, even hot shoe mounted, flash may not help increase texture as, at these distances, it is effectively along the lens axis, so would just add more 'flat' lighting to that already evident in 1, 2 and 4.

To be effective, I feel it would need to be significantly off lens axis and if you imagine an off-camera flash held just out of shot somewhere around the periphery, to cast shadows across the textures present, I fear light fall-off would be very evident due to the relative distances of light source to texture closest to flash vs that say, 3 x more distant, on the opposite side.

I guess the answer would be a powerful flash, well off axis, behind the camera and (probably) above and door.

However, I haven't tried either - I'm just thinking through the likely result - and probably not helping much with negative thoughts!

Dave

[Tejal]

I can see what John is getting at with the suggestion of using flash, but I think on-camera, even hot shoe mounted, flash may not help increase texture as, at these distances, it is effectively along the lens axis, so would just add more 'flat' lighting to that already evident in 1, 2 and 4.

To be effective, I feel it would need to be significantly off lens axis and if you imagine an off-camera flash held just out of shot somewhere around the periphery, to cast shadows across the textures present, I fear light fall-off would be very evident due to the relative distances of light source to texture closest to flash vs that say, 3 x more distant, on the opposite side.

I guess the answer would be a powerful flash, well off axis, behind the camera and (probably) above and door.

However, I haven't tried either - I'm just thinking through the likely result - and probably not helping much with negative thoughts!

Dave

Hmmmmm interesting..... Thanks for your valuable suggestion.

[IzzieK]

I like the texture of #4. Looks strong too, metal. +1 to Doug for influencing the thoughts of preference.

[Tejal]

I like the texture of #4. Looks strong too, metal. +1 to Doug for influencing the thoughts of preference.

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Thanks.....all these are wooden doors. .

[Geoff F]

As Dave has mentioned, flash has to be used with great care in situations like this. It is all too easy to get bounced hot spots from a direct camera angle which creates a worse image.

When using direct flash, I set my camera manually to suit the scene then vary the flash output compensation as required.

Regarding these images. The close ups work well but with #1, would showing a bit of the surrounding area have worked better? There isn't really anything wrong with it but the others have a definite subject in the bolts and handles. There seems to be something missing when I look at this first scene and I'm not quite sure why that should be happening.

[Tejal]

As Dave has mentioned, flash has to be used with great care in situations like this. It is all too easy to get bounced hot spots from a direct camera angle which creates a worse image.

When using direct flash, I set my camera manually to suit the scene then vary the flash output compensation as required.

Regarding these images. The close ups work well but with #1, would showing a bit of the surrounding area have worked better? There isn't really anything wrong with it but the others have a definite subject in the bolts and handles. There seems to be something missing when I look at this first scene and I'm not quite sure why that should be happening.

Agree with you. Many thanks for your valuable inputs .

[bnnrcn]

Very nice shots Tejal IMO #1 and #2 need a bit more PP . They look a bit dark and flat to me. I like the PP work in #3 and #4 .

[Tejal]

Very nice shots Tejal IMO #1 and #2 need a bit more PP . They look a bit dark and flat to me. I like the PP work in #3 and #4 .

Thank you very much. I will work again on 1-2 images.