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Galina Stepanova | all galleries >> Gallery 3 >> Melancholy > Autumn tune
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12-OCT-2005

Autumn tune

Canon EOS 10D ,Canon EF 17-40mm f/4L USM
1/100s f/6.3 at 30.0mm iso100 full exif

other sizes: small medium original auto
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an nguyen05-Feb-2012 19:24
Impeccable .
Anna Pagnacco23-Feb-2010 04:01
Love the mood and lighting! Anna
Guest 06-Oct-2006 06:11
Wonderful and subtile photo, it is a part 'self-portrait' and the leave makes it more than a good compostition ;)
Yiannis Pavlis02-Aug-2006 14:12
nice seen .
Squared C17-May-2006 06:11
Definitely my favorite! The shadow is so perfect! Excellent work!
Guest 09-Jan-2006 12:36
Great composition! I love it.
Anna Pagnacco03-Dec-2005 19:14
Love it! Excellent in all aspects....Ciao, Anna
Leslie Cohelan22-Oct-2005 20:40
excellent Galina and the single leaf in color is enough to make this a very "Melancholy" image
Manfred Bachmann19-Oct-2005 21:01
Woowww, this is fantastic!! GMV
Ana Carloto O'Shea18-Oct-2005 15:13
It's a beautiful composition Galina. The colour in the leaf adds a special touch to the image, but still I think that this photo would look equally powerful totally in b&w. I love it.
Guest 18-Oct-2005 02:49
Complex composition, but well done! It works really well. Love the atmosphere, the idea of the bench and your shadow. Great light and tones too!
jlm17-Oct-2005 18:51
Fantastic shadows and the small leaf...
Guest 17-Oct-2005 16:59
Wonderful image, Galina!!!
shatterbug17-Oct-2005 07:31
I see a note in that shadow, and you left a colorful leaf to let us know what tune is playing. Clever title. I like the long shadows!
Phil Douglis17-Oct-2005 05:31
It almost seems as if a piece of you has perished along with this leaf, as one season passes into another. A small detail, but the color leaf stands out from your shadow as a harbinger of colder days to come. The device you use turns fact into fiction, which works in this case. You are not talking about reality here, but rather are using the colored leaf in a black and white image as a metaphor.

Be careful of using such techniques, however, when it comes to photographing reality. One of my students, Kal Khogali used a similar graphic approach today in a picture he intended as a tragic study of realities in Shanghai, and I think it backfired on him. See:http://www.pbase.com/image/50805853 A few weeks earlier, Kal used this same device very successfully under less tragic circumstances athttp://www.pbase.com/shangheye/image/44635402 All of which shows us that its not the graphic technique itself at issue, but rather how and why it is used.
fred_il16-Oct-2005 22:08
I saw you!
Well done and Lovely treatment
Guest 16-Oct-2005 21:41
A tune of low sun, clear light and long shadows. Very original.. I note a suggestion of another figure, deep in the shadows.
ac16-Oct-2005 20:22
Low light and fallen leaves. Here is autumn.