Black-And-White Photo Competition 4 2013
Results
Winning Photo

Judges Comment

Well seen and well executed image that shows architecture and design in the best possible light. It's almost an abstract painting. Well done!

Photographers Comment

Thank you for having the honour of being among the runner-up's! My name is Michael Rommel from Germany and I took this picture in Spain at the entrance of one of the excellent art galleries of Madrid with a Fuji x100s camera, hand-held at 1/60s at f/3.6, ISO800. I was fascinated by the stainless steel wall coverings and experimented with three different angles, but felt, this one was the strongest, having the focus on the handrail and leading the eye into the picture to the complex array of triangles and other geometric shapes of the staircase. The picture was converted from RAW into Black & White in Lightroom and had very little postprocessing done to it.