while I wait

While I'm waiting to try the more adventurous pinhole set-ups and exeditions, I'm still trying to improve a couple of particular shots which are driving me crazy (it's the mixture of very bright light and dark room-gloom). I've tried a few variations on this one so far, using just the light from the doorway, and I'm getting slowly closer.

(I wrote a big long screed about the purist delights getting it all in the negative vs. the joys of photoshop, and then deleted it.)

Here's the compare-and-contrast without the insomnia fuelled rant...

It's a bit dark on me, the whole thing is very vignetted and the positioning isn't terrific, but it's almost unedited in photoshop. It's just cropped and tinted, nothing else. The first one I posted on flickr looked ok--though soft and reflecting in on itself--but it was pulled about in photoshop to cut back the over-exposed glare of the central section. You can probably see the gitty-grainy rubbish that creates. See: