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Images => Critique => Topic started by: Rick Waldroup on June 14, 2015, 02:36:24
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Angel On 4th Street - Fort Worth, Texas - June 13, 2015
(http://www.rickwphotography.com/img/s9/v96/p1249957341-4.jpg)
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Rick, nice perspective and I really like the B&W conversion. Nice crisp , clean image.
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Perfect height to understand the architectual concept. Wonderfully unexcited.
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I like the B&W treatment and the composition is excellent.
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perspective and composition struck me immediately too !
Nicely captured
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And it feel vintage.
Nothing of today sticks out enough to spill that impression.
cheers
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Andreas: The bicycle lane
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Thanks for all of the comments.
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Interesting perspective. Love these kinds of things. Like the B&W too! Thanks for sharing.
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I dint know that all the clouds actually comes from angels blowing... :P
Cool PP and framing!
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Thanks, Andrew and Erik, for the comments.
This was a very, very quick grab shot. I was on a balcony overlooking a portion of the city and had just a few seconds to take the photo. I framed the shot making sure I got the angel with the trumpet in the corner. It was only when I got home that I saw that the cloud formation seemed to be coming from her trumpet.
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Very nice. I would have trimmed the lower part with the dark roof on the right, but it is, of course, a matter of taste. The cloud is what makes this image for me.
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not much to add to what has been said other than I also like it
the processing reminds me of an old TV show from the 60s ...
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I've seen better from you.
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And who's the angel's employer or owner, by the way?
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And who's the angel's employer or owner, by the way?
That would be God.
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Did you use a filter to make the clouds stand out like that?
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Gary, my wife said the same thing when she first viewed the photo. >:(
Airy, there are two angels on the side of Bass Hall, which is a very prominent performance center in downtown Fort Worth, Texas.
Dave, there was no filter used on the shot. Texas has been going through some really extreme weather lately. That is pretty much how the clouds looked that day.
I want to thank everyone who took the time to view the image and leave comments.
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Nice image Rick!
The quiet streets, clouds appearing to come out of the Angel's trumpet, solid composition and the tones of the b&w composition all come together in this engaging picture.
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This can't be a digital image, it must be a 8X10 shot - negative and print beautifully done with Ansel Adams Zone System in mind.. ;) ;) - excellent !
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Rick really knows how to make excellent b/w conversions from his digital captures ...
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Thanks Bill, Juergen, and Bjorn for for the comments.
Juergen, back in the day, I actually shot an old Wista 8x10 field camera for fun.
Bjorn, when I first got into digital photography, the first thing I concentrated on was how to make good B&W images with the digital files. Coming from a background of almost exclusively using B&W film for my personal work, this was very important to me.
For anyone who is interested, my process is very simple. I use Nik SilverEfx, and then it is just a matter of selective contrast control and burning and dodging- the same tools I used in my darkroom for years and years to make silver prints. However, for this particular shot, I used a small sample of HDR- just enough to open the shadows a bit. After viewing the image with HD and without, it seemed to only make a slight difference, mostly in the shadow area. I doubt if this will become a tool that I use much at all. Just experimenting a bit here and there.
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I do like the way the clouds seem to be blaring out of the horn.
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Gary, you beat me on this. I have been facinated by this for days now, so much that it is had for me to see anything else in the picture!