Sorry there hasn’t been any post in such a long time, but I was busy get­ting mar­ied… (that, plus pre– and post-​paring it).

Any­way, let’s get back to dis­cuss­ing pho­tos. This one here I took a couple of weeks back when I was wan­der­ing around cam­pus to take some pic­tures for an assign­ment I got. I noticed this motiv a while back already but never got around actu­ally pho­to­graph­ing it. As you can see, it shows from under­neath a back lit stair­case inside a build­ing (that’s why I wasn’t in a par­tic­u­lar hurry to take it, it’s there every day).

What fas­cin­ated me was the play of light and shadow. In fact, the reg­u­lar shadow pat­terns pro­duced by stair­cases or lad­ders are a quite com­mon pho­to­graphic sub­ject, but this one I thought was par­tic­u­larly inter­est­ing because of the shape of the steps and the res­ult­ing criss-​cross pat­tern of light and shadow.

The col­ours are all nat­ural, all I did was pump up the black level (again) and add a fairly strong vign­ette (again). Also note the diag­onal com­pos­i­tion (again) to add some dynam­ics to the oth­er­wise quite static pic­ture.

PS: Thanks to the sensor-​based image-​stabilisation of my cam­era I could take this photo hand­held even at 70mm at 1/​5 s exposure!