Playing Vivaldi, a photo from Ile-de-France, North

Photographer's Note

"Place des Vosges" in Paris, one can merge in the crowd and have an ear for nice concerts under the old stones of that beautiful area.

The group was quite large and each player was quite close from one another making difficult to find a nice angle. I noticed the open Vivaldi booklet and went behind. I waited until the girl on the right made a large step away so I could capture the girl on the left together with the booklet.

Cropped, USM, levels and color balance adjusted.

Shutter speed: 1/250 sec
Aperture: 2,8
Exposure mode: Av
Flash: Off
Metering mode: Evaluative
Drive mode: Continuous: frame 1
ISO: 400
Lens: 28 to 75mm
Focal length: 63mm
AF mode: AI Focus AF
Image size: 3504 x 2336
Image quality: Raw
White balance: Auto
Saturation: High
Sharpness: High2
Contrast: High
Tone: Normal

Xalkida, robiuk, CliffW, maphoto oznaczył to zdjęcie jeko użyteczne

Critiques | Translate

quetzal (3665) 2005-05-05 14:35

Bonsoir Steven,
Trčs joli cliché pris sur la place des Vosges. La finesse, la netteté et le cadrage font le reste.
Le N&B utilisé fait bien passer l'émotion de cette scčne. Tout est mis sur cette jeune interpręte.
La composition me plaît.
Jean-Louis

djnik2004 (1698) 2005-05-05 15:25

Great shot and perfect DOF, very beautiful shot, suits black and white perfectly!

Xalkida (11744) 2005-05-05 17:22

Great photo! Very fine B&W tones fits perfect to your subject. Excelle POV and lighting. Very fine job! 10+!

robiuk (10807) 2005-05-05 20:07

Very fine work, Steven.
I lile the tones in your b/w and placement of the young madmoiselle on the left.
The pages with scores came out beautiful.
Gonna sit still now and listen what she plays....
Robi

CliffW (2381) 2005-05-05 22:22

Great levels of exposure here. Muted, as you would expect of an atmosphere of classic music. I like the way the white line of her bow leads the eye towards her face, then her gaze down the violin to the page of music.

maphoto (8082) 2005-05-05 22:36

Trčs belle composition Steven, clarté, profondeur et PP en noir et blanc trčs bien réussi, trčs bon travail.

Jean-Luc (5488) 2005-05-06 4:17

Cette photo est tout ŕ fait remarquable, le B&N lui va trčs bien.
La composition est bien vue et la gestion de la lumičre ainsi que la PdC lui donne beaucoup d'intensité. (C'est du Doisneau!)
Bravo Steven c'est superbe!

mbyrski (55) 2006-05-24 1:56

Very nice foto, good B&W tones
Mariusz