About the Image(s)

We have a new Contemporary Arts Museum with an attractive design worth exploring. I found my way to the top floor where there is a dance studio and the chairs were lined up against a mirrored wall. Using a wide-angle lens at 24 mm my settings were f/16, 1/30th sec, ISO 3200. Seconds later the dance instructor came in to move the chairs, so I persuaded her to pose. The shot serves to show the extent of the room and reflections (original 2) making it quite difficult to avoid intrusion by the photographer (me) in the background and her hair reflection overlapping with her portrait which I decided to abandon. In post, I cropped, denoised and flipped the original horizontally to improve diagonals and converted to monochrome. I increased the whites and was aggressive in pushing the blacks to bring out both the gradient of gray on the floor and the black in the chair legs so as to show a tonal range from black to white.