Week 22: staircase

I'm trying a couple of different things here. This is my first real black&white, ie the first one I've desaturated completely. Its also the first on I've not cared too much about the grain, in fact I specifically didn't remove any noise at all. I would never do that in a colour photo, but it suites the mood I'm trying to create with this photo.

I took it last Saturday at the Sommerset House in London. I was a little disappointed with the visit, I guess I expected more judging from their website, but one or two of the spiral staircase photos came out nicely and I did get to see Ai Weiwei's Zodiac Heads so it wasn't a complete waste.

I've also come to realise that I am currently a reactive photographer, I take the photos that are there, but I can't say at the point where I press the button I actually "make" the photo as that would imply (to me at least) that I preplanned what it should look like. I imagine that is much easier to do when you work with models and you can direct the photo, but also with a still life and I haven't done any of those for ages, so I think for next week I'll see if I can come up with an interesting idea for a still life of some kind.