a.j.z Posted January 10, 2011 Share #1 Posted January 10, 2011 Advertisement (gone after registration) Taken from the Gatwick Express. First I was not sure but the more I look at it the more I like it - what do you think? M9, 35/2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advertisement Posted January 10, 2011 Posted January 10, 2011 Hi a.j.z, Take a look here Battersea power station - drive by shooting. I'm sure you'll find what you were looking for!
Walt Calahan Posted January 10, 2011 Share #2 Posted January 10, 2011 Where's the flying pig? HA!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
a.j.z Posted January 10, 2011 Author Share #3 Posted January 10, 2011 ??? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walt Calahan Posted January 10, 2011 Share #4 Posted January 10, 2011 Pink Floyd album cover. Google Image Result for http://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/364/cover_54531715102008.jpg Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianman Posted January 10, 2011 Share #5 Posted January 10, 2011 ??? You're not the first to photograph this building... this one is quite well known. Ian Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
a.j.z Posted January 10, 2011 Author Share #6 Posted January 10, 2011 Aah, apologies for my ignorance Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
alun Posted January 11, 2011 Share #7 Posted January 11, 2011 Advertisement (gone after registration) Andreas, Personally, I'm not sure it does work. Drive-by pictures -- with incidental reflections, distortions etc -- of course can work but there is tremendous luck involved. Maybe this would work if it was less precise and had more motion blur....a much less literal and more impressionistic photograph... I'm not surer, really, but as it stands it doesn't quite 'ignite' -- for me, anyway. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walt Calahan Posted January 11, 2011 Share #8 Posted January 11, 2011 Andreas, please forgive my doctoring of you photograph. I do it only to illustrate what Alun posted in his comments. I do this type of photo manipulation with my students all the time to suggest alternative ways to frame a scene. The lights in the windows add a surreal nature to your image, and I believe you could have used them better to heighten the surrealism. The foreground distracts for the power station, so is not needed. With that, I've taken the extreme liberty to construct a suggestion on how I would have worked the elements of this scene. I respect anyone who disagrees with my interpretation, and do not post this to offend you. Just food for discussion and thought. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walt Calahan Posted January 11, 2011 Share #9 Posted January 11, 2011 Andreas, please forgive me for taking liberties with your photograph. I do not do this to offend, but to possibly illustrate Alu's comments. The only time I manipulate images is to help my students see other possibilities in the work, so I approach your image in the same way. This is only my suggestion. The reflections in the train window add a wonderful surrealism to you image. The foreground competes with the building for the view's attention. So why not frame your scene without the foreground, and exploit the powerful reflections in the window to heighten their surreal nature. You image then becomes something more than a grab shot from a moving train. I did this manipulations very cruelly only to offer an illustration into my thinking. It is not a very good Photoshop rendition. Just food for thought and discussion. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
a.j.z Posted January 11, 2011 Author Share #10 Posted January 11, 2011 Thanks to Alun and Walt! - this suggestion does not come as a surprise as I had considered this as well but I think that the foreground provides more depth (also shows more movement as the building already is in the background and there is a little motion blur visible at the railing) and also helps to understand where the reflections come from (without the rails it just could be a shot from am office). I agree with Alun that a little more blur would have been nice (maybe out of the usual habit I even sharpened it). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
daveleo Posted January 11, 2011 Share #11 Posted January 11, 2011 well, maybe this building has (or has not) been done to death, but this is the first i've seen of it, and i like the original image quite a bit for it's drama and "sci-fi" feeling. maybe there are or aren't better shots of this, but . . . well . . . i already said that i like it, didn't i ? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
alun Posted January 12, 2011 Share #12 Posted January 12, 2011 Hmm, in the crop the size and dominance of the power station is reduced... Again, with apologies for taking liberties with Andreas's picture, I rather like a heavily darkened B&W version -- it starts to become less literal and to my mind at any rate more mysterious.... I've clumsily over-cooked the sky a bit in this but it was just a quick run to see what it might look like.... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
a.j.z Posted January 12, 2011 Author Share #13 Posted January 12, 2011 I like the b/w-version (will work on it) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
photogkellyrae Posted January 12, 2011 Share #14 Posted January 12, 2011 I like the color so much. This is excellent! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
roguewave Posted January 17, 2011 Share #15 Posted January 17, 2011 Very cool. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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