Crushed

[RBSinTo]

Take earlier this summer at Nathan Phillip's Square near the Toronto city Hall, earlier this summer.
I noticed a discarded Grape Crush soft drink can sitting on the concrete slab pavers, and liking the vivid purple of the can and the way it broke up the grey, geometric background took this shot.
Motorized Nikon FG
Nikkor 24 f2 AIS manual focus
Fuji 100 ISO colour slide
f11 @ 1/30th

[Airy]

Getting such colour effects without manipulation in PP is a seldom opportunity (... or did you tamper the tiff file?).

The picture would have deserved a higher resolution scan.
You could crop the upper 1/10th and get an even more "uniform" picture. The contraptions in the upper left are anyway too vaguely recognizable to provide any useful contextual info.

BTW the lens does not show much distortion on this picture. From a review, I read 0.68%, bulging style, so it should be rather apparent. But that's totally secondary, please do not take offense.

[RBSinTo]

Airy,
Thanks for the comments.
It was not absolutely necessary to colour correct the shot because the concrete pavers were essentially grey with black outlines and the only other colour was the purple of the can. However, there was a touch of a magenta cast to the upper portion of the slide (possibly due to temperature damage to the film before it was given to me) which I eliminated with a bit of selective de-saturation, leaving the bright colour of the can alone. Had I done nothing, the image wouldn't have looked vastly different.
The image was scanned at about 600 DPI, which I always change to 300, and for me it has always been fine.
I tried to correct the tilt, but that results in a great deal of cropping being necessary, which eliminates the "sweep" of the shot from foreground into the distance that I liked. Similarly, that's why I didn't crop out the uppermost distracting elements, (as has been suggested as well at all the other sites where this is posted.) I left them in to give the image a deeper sweep from foreground into the distance and rationalized their inclusion as anchoring the shot at the top.
As for your comment on distortion, I'm not really sure what you are trying to say, and so no offense was taken.
Robert

[Airy]

Geometric distortion, barrel- or more precisely bulging style, was to be expected, but I do not see any. I even put a ruler on the closest near-horizontal tile gap, zilch, no curvature. Once again, that's secondary.

Something went wrong with the scanning & downsampling, I'd expect the can to be in focus and therefore somewhat sharper, even with film (Fuji 100 can deliver pretty good apparent sharpness, IIRC).

[Anirban Halder]

Even with the background story, this image fails to create any impact to me. The can is too far away, too unsharp. The pots/objects in the top left corner are distracting. I like most of your other images, but this one somehow doesn't appeal at the same level.