To crop or not to Crop

photocat

Color or black and white???
Decisions, decisions.
I thought I would crop this picture really tight to show how high these stairs are...
Question is if there is enough picture left. Wa'da ya think all?

mgound

Color is better in this case!

gubbs

Cat, I prefer the colour, and I think "no crop" but would like to have a look first

photocat

gubbs wrote:

Cat, I prefer the colour, and I think "no crop" but would like to have a look first

Oke... I might have gone overboard with the black and white...
Will try to locate the uncropped version...

happysnapper

I like the effect of the black and white one better, more dramatic. I think it makes the stair case stand out more.

Yvette

Michiel de Brieder

I agree with Yvette, AND
I'd even adjust the B/W a bit more. I'd do some extra Curves adjustment and a selective colour adjustment to pump up the blacks a bit.

It's a cool photo nonetheless!

[rambling mode]
What I'm wondering in this tight view is the tightness of the stair itself is this a small stair with small steps? How would it be on a dark and gloomy, dripping day, to walk on that stair, looking forward to get on the top of it....? Looking back and seeing a tight alley, where a little girl is playing around some puddles at the end of the alley with a raincoat on....
[/rambling mode off]

Okay, that photo got me inspired
Thanks for sharing!

photocat

Michiel de Brieder wrote:

I'd even adjust the B/W a bit more. I'd do some extra Curves adjustment and a selective colour adjustment to pump up the blacks a bit.

It's a cool photo nonetheless!

[rambling mode]
What
[/rambling mode off]

Okay, that photo got me inspired
Thanks for sharing!

Thanks guys for the comments. I did not get a warming that there were comments on it.
Like your rambling mode Michiel... Would you be dutch speaking like this one here?
The thing is that in Bisbee you don't have many moody days. It is in the South of Arizona, close to the Mexican border, a little mining town that had its best days in the past. They mined for copper. (There are more pics on my smugmug travel gallerie if you want to see more of Bisbee).
The town is glued to the hills, frontdoor and back door of a house can be on two different street levels. Some of the houses are only to reach via
narrow staircases like this one. They are narrow, you can have only one person on them, woould not like those to carry groceries up. How do they get a fridge in their house on the top of the hill???
There is not much rain in that area, it is cactus land. It was the first city in USA to forbid chinese people to come and live there. That was due to the fact that widows (mine accidents) did laundry to survive with t heir children, so no chinese people were allowed as to not jeopardise the surviving possibilities of the women with children.

Michiel de Brieder

yeah, Dutch guy here

photocat wrote:

It was the first city in USA to forbid chinese people to come and live there. That was due to the fact that widows (mine accidents) did laundry to survive with t heir children, so no chinese people were allowed as to not jeopardise the surviving possibilities of the women with children.

The town really looks like it's a perfect photo op I'll be checking out your other photos later!
What a typical passing of law that is.. not allowing people because of lack of jobs for the local widows. Part of me applauds it wholeheartedly, but there's a nagging part within me that is going
Oh well, there's probably heaps of stuff USA citizens cannot understand about the Dutch
So you speak Dutch too? Where are you from?

photocat

What a typical passing of law that is.. not allowing people because of lack of jobs for the local widows. Part of me applauds it wholeheartedly, but there's a nagging part within me that is going


I had the exact same feeling: parts of me applauded the rule, on the other hand it is also very racist... or shall we say politically incorrect.
I am a dutchspeaking belgian living in UK, married to an american. That is how we travel to the States, on homeleave for him.

Here is the original of the staircase...