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On the periphery of the campus I found these gates and I thought that it would make an interesting image looking through. I also liked the colour and the texture of the rust which added interest. I had difficulty taking the photograph as the light was shining on the screen and I had to hope for the best that I had captured the image I was looking for. I played around with this quite a bit trying to get the idea of looking through some sort of window but nothing seemed to be working. I went back to the beginning and decided to crop one section of the image as I had done on the previous photo....... and here's the result.

I like this image and I think the composition works but I would like to see the gate sharper. The texture of the rust is visible but I think it could be better. I took the image back to colour and enhanced the colours which really highlights the rust and the texture on the gate.

 I think the tones are too close to show up well in b/w and if my intention is to show texture then the image benefits from colour. On the other hand the b/w version makes me think what the story behind the image is. The choices we make when altering images therefore depends on the intention