This hallway is in The Fairmont Royal York Hotel in downtown Toronto, Canada.
I purposly left the yellow cast in the image. The colour corrected version looked like a regular hotel hallway, which was way too realistic. The carpet had such an array of colour in it, that it would have overpowered the dreamy feel of the walls.
As for 'The Shining' similarity... I have seen it years ago. I did not realize how familiar people were with Kubrick's movies. Such a nice reminder of great cinema. My original intension was to portray a kind of sleepy looooong hallway that never ends - like in a sleep-walking dream.
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Amazing how many people mentioned "The Shining" here! It really does look like a scene from that film, the corridor and colors are so identical. All that is missing is those two twin girls standing at the end of the corridor.
"That's odd. Usually the blood gets off on the second floor."
Nice, but the fact that it's slightly off-center is quite a bother to the eye when the viewer expects a shot like this to be perfectly centered.
u know what can make this even better? some "misty" or blur effects if applied correctly, will make the labyrinth even more "real". I cant vote, else I'd give a 9.
It is a nice picture of a hall, but it needs to much help from the title and I do not get the feeling of a maze. I think to have rotated the image about 1 degree clockwize would have helped or rotating it 45 degrees counter clockwize to give a feeling of off balance. hope this helped 5
Really like the colors and perspective. The lights got a little blown out and it's horizion is just that little bit tilted, just enough to be an imperfection but it's made more obvious because of the framing at the bottom. Nicely in focus fore to aft. 8
Great coloring and perspective. I like the endless feel of the hallway. I also am just waiting for those scary twin girls or the river of blood to come flowing down the hall! Very *The Shining* to me. I gave it a 7
This would benefit from a more intentional-looking perspective. The color and repetition are great, but the vanishing point is not quite in the center and not off-center enough to throw the viewer off-balance.
Nice idea, but a few weaknesses need to be corrected:
There's a bad orange cast as a result of using the wrong white balance.
The photo needs rotating slightly clockwise.
It looks like you were trying to horizontally centre the far end of the corridor, which hasn't happened.
IMO, to take this photo up a notch, you need an extra element such as a person running, looking scared, etc. Or, depending on your camera, you could have a motion blurred zoom centred on the far end. 6
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