You may wonder who's that creep that collects so many skulls? Well, I thought that too when taking this photo in an old monastery. There is a logical explanation of this. All skulls are the skulls of the monks who lived their life in this monastery. Because the thumbs were limited, after a while they were taken out and only the skulls were kept on those shelves.
Because only a small window was available, I couldn't use my D70s and instead I've used my old camera, a Nikon Coolpix 880 which unfortunately has some dead pixels. The rules didn't permitted to remove them, so here they are :P
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Talk about "dead" pixels... While a morbid image, it still attracts interest, mostly thanks to the lines created by the shelves, leading the eye into the image.
the concept for this shot is very interesting! i wish there weren't a shadow over that one skull...
nicely composed, like the slight angle for the shelves.
It is a crazy collection, I wish it had been taken at an even angle and that shadow over the one skull wasnt there, would have a better impact but still one of the more interesting collections I've seen.
Wow, what a dramatic subject. I like the skulls on the edges that don't have the glare. The shadow in the middle is also distracting. A nice uniform gray acriss the skulls and the shelves, contrasted with the black shadows behind the skulls would make this even more dramatic.
I think this could be a fantastic shot if two things were different:
The shadow in the middle were not there
The lighting were more even
The shot were straight on
Okay, you've got my attention, where is this? I have a similar shot in my portfolio so I wouldn't mind some back story here. I like the b/w tones however there are a couple of things that are troublesome IMHO. Your light source is clearly overhead center frame. I'm left wondering where this dark shadow is coming from dead center in the shot? I'll assume that there is some kind of object interfering here?
I would like to see a change of perspective and perhaps eliminate the strange shadow that is causing the viewer too much distraction. You've got a great theme going on here that is WAY outside the mainstream box for DPC and for that, congrats. A little more tweaking and this shot would have some serious impact.
6 - Like the potential. Criticism; that shadow on the skull in the second row is too distracting and detracts too much from this image. A different crop, perhaps even a sharper angle (side on), and possibly more symmetry, would have made this a much better shot in my opinion. Not sure on the toning, works, but either needs some 'tweaking' or else maybe color, or another 'toning' would have been better, not sure.
That is fascinating. Is that the shadow of your camera on the fourth row up? Maybe you could have positioned it so the shadow fell in a gap... still, wow. Interesting to look at.
This is a very interesting shot. Morbid, but very neat! ;o) There is one skull with a dark shadow falling on it which I think is a little distracting to the photograph as a whole, other than that, I wouldn't change a thing!
Ahhhhlrighty then. I pray this has something to do with your profession. ;-)
I think a sharper angle showing some of the skulls much closer would have made it more dramatic and that shadow on the one skull frankly creeps me out. Very unique!
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