Critique Style Requested: Standard
The photographer is looking for generalized feedback about the aesthetic and technical qualities of their image.
Description
A look down into the dining hall at Taliesin - since the students weren’t meant to linger over their meals, the furniture is deliberately uncomfortable, but damn, it looks great doesn’t it? The students built it all as well, mostly out of plywood and that is done throughout the building.
Taliesin is the name of a Welsh poet/bard from the 6th century who was thought to have sung in the courts of three kings and whose work might survive in Medieval manuscripts. His name means radiant or shining brow and since Frank’s family was from Wales he chose this as the name of his late-in-life architecture school located in the tiny town of Spring Green, Wisconsin. The family compound has homes, a farm and the school which started as his Aunts Jennie and Nell’s school which was the first private, co-educational facility in the state opening in the late 1890s. The original buildings were Frank’s first commercial jobs. After his Aunt sold the land and buildings to him for all of $1, he let it fester and it nearly fell into ruin before he revived and expanded it for his architectural school/prison. LOL. Just google it for all the strange history. It’s 600 acres of heaven though, I’ll tell you.
Specific Feedback
Any feedback is welcome - the shot is what it is, taken during a tour with lots of people milling about and not a lot of time nor a tripod.
Technical Details
Handheld
Lr for everything - a crop to 16:10 and some work in lens correction and transform to fix the geometry. Evened out the luminosity and ran a desnoise AI action and added some clarity, texture and sharpening afterward. Used color grading to bring out the cool tones in the highlights for the color contrast. Calibration panel to give the overall colors a bit of a boost. Cloned out a stray power cord.