Staircase inside Bengtskär lighthous, a photo from Southern Finland, South

Photographer's Note

Inside view of the staircase in the tower of Bengtskär lighthouse. At the scene I was first anoyed by the cables in the center. But they might give some depth to the image?

See this image for more information about Bengtskär.

A comment about my foot. :-) Yes, I know it's in the picture. It would be easy to remove digitally, but I think that is against the rules of this site. Dangling over the railing, not seing the viewfinder and working with slow shutter (1/25s) speeds was a little problematic. This was the only shot of *many* which turned out good.

I added a workshop image with the foot removed.

mjdundee, Jeppe, benkrut, batalay has marked this note useful

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ben4321 (9875) 2006-05-08 7:56

Excellent composition and I like the colours.
I don't know if you realised when you were taking it, but you seem to have included your foot in the frame (bottom left).

cherubin (1971) 2006-05-08 8:24

Hi Jon,
excellent composition, very clear depth of field a good work!
you could erase your foot using the cloning tool...
regards,
cherubin

sabyasachi1212 (19779) 2006-05-08 8:45

Hi Jon,
Excellent graphical image. I like the angle. Good DOF. At first I thought I was looking at an eye :)
Sabyasachi

vinicio (23423) 2006-05-08 10:37

Beautiful image indeed, composition and lights, compliments.
Ciao
Vinicio

celinaconroy (717) 2006-05-08 11:56

Hi Jon,

Beautifully visualised ..it's perfect. I shouldn't worry about the cables, you are right they just add to the overall image.

Celina

mjdundee (4663) 2006-05-09 2:23

Hello Jon,
good POV (and artistic as well - I guess)
The cable doesn't bother me at all. It looks like water floating down into a pool in the center. TFS
THomas

ktanska (40041) 2006-05-10 6:39

Hei Jon,
Dizzyin spiral view. I like the stairs and brick walls. It's well exposed too. Rules of TE allow editing out small insignificant details. But I like the foot there. Without it we wouldn't know if you were shooting up or down.
Kari

shirgold (2485) 2006-05-13 5:22

Hi Jon,
Nice capture, I love the spiral the stairs create.
No worried about your foot - as Kari said it gives a good indication
Good sharpness for such a low shutter speed..
TFS - Shir

Jeppe (18654) 2006-05-29 16:59

A fine graphics made by the staircase - I like the reflections in the pole as well - thanks for sharing Jon.

benkrut (2407) 2006-08-07 23:51

Hi
There was a moment that I thought that the picture was taken from the bottom of the staircase. I was dizzy looking at the photo and didn't even notice the foot before reading the note.
Great one
Henryk

ik_ik_ik (375) 2006-08-09 11:11

Really like this shot. More unusual then a lot of staircases as there is a lot of asymmetry and varied texture. The exposure is great and the lighting very interesting too.

aidil98 (94) 2006-10-03 7:47

HI Jon!
This picture is amazing!
Good capture!
Thanks for sharing:)

mutualism1 (43) 2007-01-01 17:47

Hi Jon,
with this staircase you achieved a great composition. Looking at it I feel really pulled down into the staircase. On another view it reminds me a lot to a "technical perfect" snail house. Just excellent.
Thank you

Wolfgang

batalay (41261) 2007-01-04 6:14

Hello Jon,

First, thank you for the critique of my shot, "Eyes," expertly done, where you have cited the "centerline principle." For more information, you might take a look at a recent photo and note, "Virgin in Street Art," posted by the talented young Canadian photographer, Andrew Coppin (boots). I am happy that you also offered a very good comparable in Helene Schjerfbeck's "Painting of a Sick Girl." You are entirely correct! The child in mine was also under the weather; moreover, she had just woke up.

I am very much impressed by the almost-logarithmic spiral that your photo captures. When you observe — from the top or bottom at a circular staircase — e.g. Leonardo's design for the Vatican — the perspective will produce this type of spiral, in distinction to the Archimidean Spiral, or the huperbolic , etc. In your photo, the spiral is tightly wound as it indeed occurs in a lighthouse. There is a similar photo to yours at TE of a lighthouse in France, unhappily, I can no longer find it. My interest is from the vantgage point of scientist/mathematician/artist. (I wrote a book about the merger of these subjects that the excellent young photographer, Andrew Coppin (boots), cites in a recent posting, the "Virgin as Street Art." If you have time, take a look at his note and mine.
Warm regards,
Bulent

Elzar (5) 2007-01-19 11:47

Hi!
Very psychedelic and mysterious picture. The light is in the right place also. Too bad your foot got in the shot :) but cropping is possible ofcooz :p

Andreas