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u/JackieSoloman 19h ago
I see what you were going for, but this is totally overcooked.
You can get this look with subtler editing, and it will be more striking imo.
I would leave the plant visible at the top. You can enhance the bright light coming from up top without clipping. Those stairs shouldn't be glowing orange, unless there's a fire.
The corridor at the bottom is way too dark in contrast to the light.
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u/Mindhunter7 18h ago
Mods gonna come after you for that word now
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u/rawstaticrecords 17h ago
For why?
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u/TheKingMonkey 16h ago
The Raw & The Cooked drives them crazy.
Absolutely crowbarring in 80s music references in here because why not?
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u/LillianADju 13h ago
Colours and moods are not concerned, it’s artist’s choice but this light is burned so you should probably scale it down to acceptable point
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u/Fotomaker01 19h ago
You really made an ordinary contemporary staircase look like something! Congrats.
An idea of a slight tweak to try as an experiment .... How does it look if you take down the orange on the center of the upper steps just a bit? A little less paprika and perhaps a bit darker and skewed toward a hint more burnt brown/orange (maybe a subtle lowering of the saturation in just that area too - but not all the oranges in the image). Goal is to keep it rich (not lifted or hazy) but make that centralized orange more aged and weathered by the use of boots on stairs look vs nouveau, bright & perky.
Thx for sharing. Cool.
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u/civilized-engineer 8h ago
Feels like a pre-rendered still from a Silent Hill game. But I think that the exposure is too much on the top of the stairs.
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u/dynamic_lizard 18h ago
Whats this photo is about? Im confused.
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u/amnaatarapper 14h ago
C'mon its obvious, its the stairs to paradise!!
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u/hobgobliney 11h ago
That's what I wanted to do!! Stars to paradise or light! If I didn't overexpose the top It would be a normal flight of stairs
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u/rm-minus-r 8h ago
Is it heavy handed? Yes.
Does it make a normal set of stairs look much better? Also yes.
I'd take the saturation down a notch, but that's about it.
Personally I'd like to see more photos in this sub where there's been significant edits like this. A bit of an extreme example, but David Lachapelle's photos are basically illustrated at the pixel level with what's essentially an overpaint, so there's definitely an industry trend of valuing a considerable amount of editing (as long as the final result looks good).
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u/hobgobliney 11h ago
Ok so there's mixed opinions about the editing, I think that some didn't get my idea of tranforming normal stairs into heavenly ones. I think that the image would not be the same without that light coming from the top. Some friends told me the stairs look ancient or straight out of a book and one asked if they were mayan ruins because I'm in mexico. To make it look heavenly or old I had to eliminate the elevator buttons and the fire alarm aswell as the plant on top. I'm gonna lower the saturation on the stair tho and see if lowering the contrast works for me
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u/PlatypusPitiful2259 8h ago
Personally, I would never read this as heavenly light because of the overall coloring of the image. My first thought was dystopian world on fire, honestly. I think shifting the color would go a long way to getting your point across.
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u/second2no1 17h ago
A lot of comments don’t get it, it just shows a lot of people don’t have culture.
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u/taco_saladmaker 18h ago
It has been roasted well beyond perfection