This was the second round of the Digital Image League at Bracknell Camera Club in the 2022-23 season held on 12th December 2022. This was an open round with just one image was allowed.
Through the tunnel
In August we were in London for a smartphone safari in the afternoon. In the morning we visited photogenic sites at London’s stations. In the Kings Cross tunnel this lady walked towards us silhouetted against the lights.
Judge’s comments
… you get the beginning of movie trailers about the horse running by the side of the car, it always gives that feeling of being at the side of a carousel at the fair going round, that sort of fast moving unnatural light
… I like where you have placed the young lady in the image, I like the fact that she is almost a complete silhouette, almost have a she is walking towards us […],
… I quite like the reflection of the lighting off the ceiling, almost have a rib like feeling of the ceiling, and the fact that you have caught it on the round so that it has this feeling of this old Victorian lightbox that you [used to see] going around a lamp, with that circular movement; so it almost feels like we are in some sort of illusion along those lines,
… however, I do think that the lights are quite pallid in places and to me make a greater statement it would have been good to have had a bit more about the lighting; actually [more] saturation in some of the lighting in this case would have given it a kaleidoscopic feel
… and also a small picky point we can see the reflection or the view through a window or however this is created sort of what lies beyond, it feels an empty space that once again and is sort of shattering the illusion of that I think we are possibly going for within it
… so I like it but I think there is a little bit more work to be done and I like that it is in a square crop as well because I think that works within the treatment of it
The score
There were 16 images in this Digital Image round in Division 1 and “Through the tunnel” scored 7.5.
The original image
ISO 1250 105mm f/4.5 1/320 sec
From advice in the club’s Facebook critique group I worked on tidying up the silhouette and removed some of the red spotlights .