Towering Colours

[jaapv]

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The television tower in Prague at night. Thanks for looking and comments

[Marquinius]

Jaap,

 

What a picture! Almost abstract. Well seen, well done. Btw: this could have been one of Stuart's ...

 

Marco

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[stuny]

Jaap -

 

Beautiful, dramatic, powerful.

[imported_reinierv]

very interresting object, my problem with this pic is that it is a registration of someone elses artwork. I miss the vision of the photographer who puts it in a perspective

 

are there any Praque specific buildings nearby you can use as decoration or contrast?

[jaapv]

Interesting point of view, Reinier. I guess that it is valid for just about any man-made object we take a photograph of. As it is, those colours were not artwork, just a bunch of coloured lights that I greatly emphasized. I think I can claim the viewpoint, perspective and post-processing enhancement as my own, even if I did not build the tower.

[roguewave]

Jaap, one of your best, non wildlife captures. Just love it all, but I'm an urban junkie.

[imported_reinierv]

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No Jaap I do not agree. As a photographer you can make a difference by adding components that add size/location/atmophere/etc to the picture.

 

It's like a picture from below the centre of the eiffel-tower...has been done zilliosns of times because everybody that walks below it see that. That is not a great pic but a pic of a great object. It become a great pic if you add elements (e.g. an umbrella when its raining, a camera of someone else making that pic, etc etc) It is the same with this picture, everybody who walks below this tower will see the same thing and probably this pic has also been taken zillions (ok it is no eiffel tower so thousends ;-)) of times.

 

There is difference between a great pic and a pic of a great object. You can make a great pic of a great object, but you don't do that by just taking just any pic of the great object. To me this is just a pic of a great object, the photographer did not add anything that made it a great pic.

[jaapv]

No Jaap I do not agree. As a photographer you can make a difference by adding components that add size/location/atmophere/etc to the picture.

 

It's like a picture from below the centre of the eiffel-tower...has been done zilliosns of times because everybody that walks below it see that. That is not a great pic but a pic of a great object. It become a great pic if you add elements (e.g. an umbrella when its raining, a camera of someone else making that pic, etc etc) It is the same with this picture, everybody who walks below this tower will see the same thing and probably this pic has also been taken zillions (ok it is no eiffel tower so thousends ;-)) of times.

 

There is difference between a great pic and a pic of a great object. You can make a great pic of a great object, but you don't do that by just taking just any pic of the great object. To me this is just a pic of a great object, the photographer did not add anything that made it a great pic.

 

I see your point, and on the Eiffel-tower it is well-taken,but in this case I disagree. I wanted to make a semi-abstract out of it, whilst still giving the sense of power the thing gives one. Any umbrella or whatever would have spoilt the effect. And no, I doubt there are many of these images about. It is in a part of Prague that hardly any of the zillions of tourists there visit, and then only by day to make the obligatory Prague-skyline-through-dirty-glass shot. It is only open in the evening on January first, and there were no tourists at all....No cameras either, other than those cellphones upstairs for the fireworks.

But - legitimate criticism, and gracefully accepted.

[jaapv]

Ben,Stuart and Marco - thanks for your kind words

[marc_dufour]

Perfect framing and surprising intensity.

A great work.

Marc

[epand56]

This is an amazing composition. Is the red and blue light part of the tower or is a sort of traffic light in the close up?

[imported_reinierv]

If you tried to make and abstract I suggest you cut of just above the red...than suddenly it becomes something weird you can not directly place and a much more interresting shot...

 

for me now it is a beautiful tower shot from below...

 

It doesn't matter that nobody was there...there are also days that only few people are at the eifel tower...but that doesn't mean that everybody that would have been there would not have made a very close resemblance to this shot...Ofcourse umbrella's etc are just suggestion..it is about adding elements that have added value, be it a building, a tree, a camera, etc etc..all that make it not just a shot of a tower from below

[vdb]

A strong image with imposing colors and perspective. To my eye this is a great abstract image that requires no dialogue. At least, this is how I prefer to experience it.

[jaapv]

Thanks