Seen in passing.

[John 2]

Taken in the Royal Ontario Museum.

Fuji X plus 18-55mm lens. ISO 1600

[Shadowman]

Nicely captured and composed.

[Mike Buckley]

You have repeatedly done well by that museum and this image is a great example. Such a wonderful conversion, negative vignette and use of lines and negative space to make the subject immediately obvious!

[NorthernFocus]

Mike summed it up. Nicely done.

[terrib]

Ditto above. Well seen! And I love the vignette. A good use of it in this case.

[mugge]

Love it. Black and White is alive and well.
Cheers Ole

[John 2]

Thanks for the comments John, Mike Dan and Terri. Mike, I find places like the ROM great. They full of interest in their own right, but they also allow me to indulge my photographic passion whilst Sue is enjoying the exhibits.

[Manfred M]

+1 to Mike's analysis. You are making me feel guilty as I have not made it to the ROM in years, yet when I was a teenager in Toronto, I would visit several times a year. The composition, B&W conversion and use of the negative vignette all work extremely well.

[rpcrowe]

Nicely done... The perfect high key shot. It includes black values which HK shots should. Many folks think that high key images are simply over exposed.

[Donald]

Just a note to agree with everyone else. That is a beauty.

I love the 'minimalist' nature of the composition. A perfect composition for the equally perfect approach taken to processing it.

[madcrow]

Great image, well spotted and the good sense to take it. A very well done.

[John 2]

Thanks Manfred, Richard, Donald and Maurice for the continued comment.

[IzzieK]

The vignette worked well in this instance!....Nice job!

[cichlid]

Very cool.
Was this an intentional shot?

[purplehaze]

Oh, that's terrific, John. I like it very much.

[John 2]

Thanks Izzie, thanks Eric, thanks Janis.

Eric, it depends on what you mean by deliberate. I saw it as a shot at the time if that is what you mean and took it with a high key in mind. It's a no brainer with white walls etc. However the negative vignette is something that came to me in PP as a means of reducing the prominence of the signage on the RHS.

[bnnrcn]

I'm a bit late as I have been busy for the last couple of days. I like it very much John

[RBSinTo]

John,
This is a wonderfully well done photograph for reasons that have already been described.
My only nit (and it is no fault of yours) is that the subject is talking on her cellphone.
Institutions like the ROM are architecturally so beautiful that they offer many photographic opportunities.
After visiting the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) with my wife, earlier this summer to see the Lawren Harris exhibit, I returned a few days later to photograph interiors in the building.
Robert

[Mike Buckley]

Considering that both the cell phone and the sign on the right side have recently been mentioned, I'll explain my immediate reaction to both when I saw the image.

The subject could be viewing what appears to be art on the wall but instead is talking on the cellphone. She could even be doing both at the same time, but, no, the sign of the times is to ignore everything around us while we become slaves to our cell phones.

I also imagine that, unlike the advice being given by the sign to plan her visit, she didn't do that and is using the cell phone to get advice about where to go and how to get there.

In summary, those two characteristics of the image (the phone and sign) work really well together for me.

[RBSinTo]

Considering that both the cell phone and the sign on the right side have recently been mentioned, I'll explain my immediate reaction to both when I saw the image.

The subject could be viewing what appears to be art on the wall but instead is talking on the cellphone. She could even be doing both at the same time, but, no, the sign of the times is to ignore everything around us while we become slaves to our cell phones.

I also imagine that, unlike the advice being given by the sign to plan her visit, she didn't do that and is using the cell phone to get advice about where to go and how to get there.

In summary, those two characteristics of the image (the phone and sign) work really well together for me.

Mike,
I think you're being far too kind. Unless she is the Head of Neurosurgery at Toronto General needing an every fifteen-minute update on a recently completed surgery, she is undoubtedly one of the minions of young people who are slaves to those idiotic "Devices" and spend their lives staying in touch with their equally self-absorbed friends by staring at her smartphone screen most of her waking hours, to the exclusion of everything non-electronic in the real world.
Robert