Monday, November 05, 2007
By invitation only
Comments:
Yep, I agree, looks flat due to no shadows, probably an overcast day.
I do like the composition and the relative symetry of the doors and fencing. I am intreged by the bricked in entrance and the resulting two doors. I would add an adjustment layer to reduce the high key of the right sign, but thats me.
Umm. Whilst eating my sandwich I played with levels and then put the signs back where they were. The image then has a bit of 'punch'.
Do you not like doing that kind of thing?
It would seem that sales reps get few invitations! The cleverness reminds me of Guy's images, but this place has the opposite feeling from his clean, shiny and well maintained Tokyo.
The railings are really interesting in their placement and skew.
"Flatness" might actually suit the feeling here.
Rex,
You should have seen it before I added the contrast that is there :-)
I feel under no inclination to give this image 'punch'.
First Engineering - Britain's transport at its best. Perhaps a wandering bus hit the railings. Is this under an old railway arch? Quite a few social realism observations here that contrive to keep one's interest.
John,
Not an arch. More like a railway maintenance shed. Perhaps rail designers of the period could only do arches not lintels :-)
Perhaps shaped like that to allow coaches and locomotives in. It's interesting that the picture looks different against the background on your site to the background here. It is as though it takes its tonal character from its surroundings, chameleon-like.
The grim tonality suits the subject well in my opinion. The fences and doors square shapes respond well to the curve above the doors.
I love those quasi symmetries. the whole thing is based on a symmetry tha dominates the composition but when looking closer, almost nothing is really symmetric.
John,
It's interesting that the picture looks different against the background on your site to the background here
One of the minor bits of fun that I'm having at the moment is that these mono film based pics are beign edited in a mixture of Photoshop and Lightroom. The two applications show a different gray as the background field. Not by much, but enough such that some images (like this one) can look substantially different in the two editors.
"...Makes you wonder if only the invited sales reps know which door to choose?" Depends on whether they are right-handed, left handed or ambidextrous I suppose.
Flat works well for me here because it wants me to just whistle along this 'boring' scene from left to right without stopping. But looking closer in there are just enough tiny 'flaws' which bring you quickly to a halt and make you look in much deeper. The drainpipe, light switch and matching bends in the fences are all very interesting. Added to that the change in stone work on the facade and the tufts of weeds and you have a much bigger story being told. Well seen.
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I do like the composition and the relative symetry of the doors and fencing. I am intreged by the bricked in entrance and the resulting two doors. I would add an adjustment layer to reduce the high key of the right sign, but thats me.
Do you not like doing that kind of thing?
The railings are really interesting in their placement and skew.
"Flatness" might actually suit the feeling here.
You should have seen it before I added the contrast that is there :-)
I feel under no inclination to give this image 'punch'.
Not an arch. More like a railway maintenance shed. Perhaps rail designers of the period could only do arches not lintels :-)
I love those quasi symmetries. the whole thing is based on a symmetry tha dominates the composition but when looking closer, almost nothing is really symmetric.
It's interesting that the picture looks different against the background on your site to the background here
One of the minor bits of fun that I'm having at the moment is that these mono film based pics are beign edited in a mixture of Photoshop and Lightroom. The two applications show a different gray as the background field. Not by much, but enough such that some images (like this one) can look substantially different in the two editors.
Flat works well for me here because it wants me to just whistle along this 'boring' scene from left to right without stopping. But looking closer in there are just enough tiny 'flaws' which bring you quickly to a halt and make you look in much deeper. The drainpipe, light switch and matching bends in the fences are all very interesting. Added to that the change in stone work on the facade and the tufts of weeds and you have a much bigger story being told. Well seen.