Lois Alexander-Mandel
About the Image(s)
We visited Vidin, Bulgaria while on a river cruise this summer. This port town has an interesting history of Jewish inhabitants. While there is currently no Jewish community so to speak, there had been a small community before WWII. Vidin's Jews did not suffer severely because the decree of expulsion in 1943 was not carried out. After the war, most of the Jews of Vidin left Bulgaria and their synagogue went to ruin. Of course, we were not supposed to go into the ruin, but a bent fence couldn't keep me out. This section is where the "bima" or raised area for the ark and prayer leaders would have been. The middle was so overgrown I was unable to get a head on shot, so I shot from an angle and aimed in post processing to convey not just the decay and overgrowth, but the beauty and solidity of the structure.
Shot with my Fuji XT-1
1/100 @ f4.5
ISO 200
Post-Processing and B&W conversion in On1Raw, utilizing the Develop module and various filters in Effects
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8 comments posted
Difficult to give an opinion about the tone.
I am attracted by 2 elements: first, the sharpness of the structure of the 2 columns compared with the rest of the image (stones, ... as these stone are old they can not be still sharpened), and secondly by the "center of gravity" of the Jew star in the center of the image.
Really a good composition.   Posted: 10/22/2018 06:26:04