Bob,
I'm glad to see this. Because, as you know, I was also shooting railings and stairs alongside you and I have struggled to determine if any of my shots work. I am eager to hear what others think.
My thoughts:
I really like the toning.
I wish you shot to include more of the railings. The shot feels "wide" and dominated by the foreground stairs with less a sense of movement up the stairs, destination, progression than I would like.
The railings on the right become indistinct, lost in blocked up shadows and could stand a bit of recovery.
Maybe I'll put up a few stairway/railing shots for you to take a shot at, get others input. I find these subjects interesting but difficult to make work, much like trying to create effecive images of trees.
Processing was a quickie, I intend to revisit and apply a different workflow, if nothing more than a challenge to recover the lost areas you have identified, and perhaps crop down some - this is about a FF image.
No trees - my frustration threshold is too low to tackle those
Bob Jarman wrote:
I think the best we could have done at the moment would have been Scott draped in Canon gear - not quite the same aesthetic
In the shadows at the top of the stairs we see a sitting man, head in hands. Following the stairs downward we see a on the steps below a Canon lens — one of the big expensive white ones — surrounded by broken glass, painting a poignant picture of a Yankee tourist's photographic safari to Savannah sadly gone terribly wrong...
All that would have taken is a bit of imagination and a broken Coke bottle
