Stair Wall
More from the half-frame Olympus Pen, a single frame this time.
This image would be better flipped but there is too much writing to get away with that.
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Olympus Pen, half-frame camera, ca 1960. Ilford Pan F Plus, ISO50, Probably shot at 1/50th and f8 or f11.
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burnt embers 
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Good pic but I instinctively want to rotate it 1 degree anticlockwise to level the ground and verticalize the line where the two walls meet at the foot of the stairs. If it was a bit more out of true one could accept it as artistic licence but now it just looks wrong. Your bourgeois friend Val.
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I figured someone might comment on that. The ground was sloping and the lense is wide enough to distort other lines, along with parallax effects.
However if you look at the seam in the tall wall above the left side of the truck and near the centre of the photo (where such things are best judged) then it is vertical, as are the stair railings near the middle.
But I know what you mean and were I not leaving it framed as shot I would have played around with the angle. Since nothing in the scene agrees with anything else i suspect it would have ended up looking skewed no matter how I arranged it.
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Great. the gap on the left, the car on the right and between the stairs. Very clear composition. I like it.
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Thankyou Ray. At the time I was wishing the van was not in the photo. But after a while I figured out that is an important part.
This is another early Sunday morning photo when downtown parking lots are empty, or nearly so. Those stairs lead up to a night club exit and I can imagine heavy gear being manhandled by the band down and into the van below at 3am. Probably the band members are sleeping in it as well, and if not then the back doors are tight against the wall to help with security. That’s one story anyway.
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