1x.com - circle of belief by Serban Mestecaneanu

Photos Artists Forum Tutorials Critique Books Buy Prints About

Stumble 1X

Tour

Join

Sign in

Click on the photo to see another

circle of belief

the exit stairs from the Vatican

Related photos

Write

Karen Khontyan 1 year ago

super

Pierre Pageau 2 years ago

félicitations .

lupica razvan 3 years ago

excellent!

regards!

Kellie 4 years ago

Awesome abstract/mono shot!

Serban Mestecaneanu thanks Kellie

yannick luthy 4 years ago

great shot. taking a photo of these stairs might actually be the reason that will make me set foot on vatican soil...

Serban Mestecaneanu yannick, you will find other 'treasures' like this in that place!

yannick luthy Ok thanks for the advice,
Guess I'll just have to wake up early to avoid the queue.

Frank B 4 years ago

A lovely and interesting picture. I like the title too. I have just posted a picture I took of the same exit.

Serban Mestecaneanu Hi Frank, I saw yours today and thought first it was mine! you know what they say, great minds think alike! :-)

Xavier Rey 4 years ago

great !!

Serban Mestecaneanu thanks Xavier for your reply

Adam E. Stevens 4 years ago

Great shot, wonderfull dof and shutter speed. "bending over the rail" makes it sound like you hand heald this shot, did you use anything to steady the camera? Hand held long exposures are a real challange for me (or perhaps it's all the coffee I drink)

Serban Mestecaneanu thanks Ada, I used nothing but my hands, the shutter speed was about 1/15 i think

Cile Bailey 4 years ago

Beautiful, symbolic, and perfect. Always, Cile

Serban Mestecaneanu Cile, thank you for your comments

Cile Bailey My pleasure. I have always been fascinated by the spiral design. life-death-rebirth. I have done much work on this subject, but yours is magnificent, Always, Cile

Sean Bailey 4 years ago

Nicely composed and great shot!

Serban Mestecaneanu thanks Sean

Allan Brown 4 years ago

There's a great feeling of depth in this photograph. The decision to have the centre of the spiral off-centre really makes the image; it wouldn't have had nearly the same impact if it had been centrally placed. Good choice of shutter speed; it conveys a lovely sense of movement.

Serban Mestecaneanu thanks Alan, I remember I used spot metering on the central of the circle - but I had to wait some time to get the right 'amount' of people to populate the stairs (they usually come in groups) - luckily no one bothered by my pressence. Re the composition, I visualised one more option on portrait with the central of the spiral on the lower left, but no much for impact

André Pelletier 4 years ago

Another great picture of spiral.
Really amazing!
The tones are perfect!

Serban Mestecaneanu Thanks Andre, I was also fortunate to get a mixture of artificial and natural light which created the tones

Martine Bour 4 years ago

Great capture, indeed! I like it a lot!

Serban Mestecaneanu thanks Martine

Mal Smart 4 years ago

super composition Serban, this is special. mal

Serban Mestecaneanu thanks Mal, really apppreciated

Richard Holliday 4 years ago

Was there myself just 3 weeks ago - my images was not as good as this. B&W looks excellent.

Serban Mestecaneanu it is me probably but in most of the cases what I shoot looks better in B&W

Matti Sedholm 4 years ago

Very elegant feel to this one......and very impressive photographic work indeed.

Serban Mestecaneanu thanks Matti

Tandy J. Howard 4 years ago

Serban, another excellent piece. I was there many years ago and shot a similar scene. I think I'll pull out the negative and reprint it. This is, as is all of your work, an inspiration!

Serban Mestecaneanu you are very kind, thanks, as I said I think there are some places which simply ask to be photographed and is hard to get anything from a decent outcome

Tandy J. Howard 4 years ago

Serban, another excellent piece. I was there many years ago and shot a similar scene. I think I'll pull out the negative and reprint it. This, as is all of your work, an inspiration!

Serban Mestecaneanu Thanks Tandy for your words, I think there are some places where you simply get inspired more than others, and the Vatican...

Maria E. Salvador 4 years ago

Nicely composed, and just the right amount of blur!

Serban Mestecaneanu thanks Maria, I think I shot about 10 images and I chose this one with as you say the optimum mixture of blur

Scott Crouse 4 years ago

Beautiful shot Serban! May be similar to mine (who would have thought, a train station in Canada and the Vatican) but completely unique. Beautiful tones and treatment. Well done!

Serban Mestecaneanu great minds think alike! :-)

Olivier 4 years ago

Very nice composition ! I like this treatment ! ;)

Serban Mestecaneanu thanks Olivier - what exactly do you mean by treatment? the toning or the framing?

Olivier By treatment, I wanted to say the conversion in B&W, whom I find very well realized!

Serban Mestecaneanu aha, I understand now Olivier. I used red filtre when converting for the central of the spiral to get more in focus (that white circle)

Olivier Thank you for these details! Very good work ! ;)

Ulf Börjesson 4 years ago

Nice, very nice. Perfect shutter speed as well!

Serban Mestecaneanu Thanks Ulf, glad you like it

Stephen Russell 4 years ago

This is not an original view but is certainly one of the best I have seen from the staircase. Well done, Serban.

Serban Mestecaneanu sorry I think I mixed up Stephane with Stephan answer :-) so to continue in the same way, now I reply to Stephane - I was slightly bending over the rail, but not that dangerously as one should think