« previous next »
Pages: [1] 2   Go Down

Author Topic: White top  (Read 3813 times)

charlie

  • NG Member
  • *
  • Posts: 587
White top
« on: October 03, 2015, 07:32:08 »
Cliche as they might be, I'm a sucker for those middle of the road shots.
Logged

Frank Fremerey

  • engineering art
  • NG Supporter
  • **
  • Posts: 12614
  • Bonn, Germany
Re: White top
« Reply #1 on: October 03, 2015, 15:12:03 »
wonderfully minimalistic.
Logged
You are out there. You and your camera. You can shoot or not shoot as you please. Discover the world, Your world. Show it to us. Or we might never see it.

Me: https://youpic.com/photographer/frankfremerey/

Olivier

  • NG Member
  • *
  • Posts: 713
  • Olivier Anthony
Re: White top
« Reply #2 on: October 03, 2015, 15:49:22 »
The best part of it (for me!) is that the road stops abruptly.
Logged

Jan Anne

  • Noob
  • Global Moderator
  • **
  • Posts: 2045
  • Holland
    • Me on Flickr
Re: White top
« Reply #3 on: October 03, 2015, 16:18:51 »
Awesome image Charlie, really like the gradually increase lighting of the road which pulls the viewer into the dark and mysterious landscape.

Very well spotted, captured and processed.

Logged
Cheers,
Jan Anne

Gary

  • NG Member
  • *
  • Posts: 1867
  • Southern California
    • Snaps
Re: White top
« Reply #4 on: October 03, 2015, 17:24:07 »
Quote from: Jan Anne on October 03, 2015, 16:18:51
Awesome image Charlie, really like the gradually increase lighting of the road which pulls the viewer into the dark and mysterious landscape.

Very well spotted, captured and processed.

+1 ... well done Charlie. Somewhere in the Mojave?
Logged
"Everywhere you look there are photographs, it is the call of photographers to see and capture them."- Gary Ayala
My snaps are here: www.garyayala.com
Critiquing my snaps are always welcomed and appreciated.

armando_m

  • NG Supporter
  • **
  • Posts: 3685
  • Guadalajara México
    • http://armando-m.smugmug.com/
Re: White top
« Reply #5 on: October 03, 2015, 18:27:46 »
wonderful gradients and composition
Logged
Armando Morales
D800, Nikon 1 V1, Fuji X-T3

charlie

  • NG Member
  • *
  • Posts: 587
Black Top
« Reply #6 on: October 03, 2015, 23:38:01 »
Thank you's!

Quote from: Gary on October 03, 2015, 17:24:07
Somewhere in the Mojave?

Yes, Death Valley to be specific. Here is another along the same road only facing the other direction, this one is Black Top.

Logged

Akira

  • Homo jezoensis
  • NG Supporter
  • **
  • Posts: 12825
  • Tokyo, Japan
Re: White top
« Reply #7 on: October 04, 2015, 01:02:59 »
You compressed a certain time duration into one frame nicely in the initial image which looks like a frame from a road movie.

If it's shot in Death Valley, I don't really get the meaning of the title (not the Whitetop Mountains, right?).  Would be glad if you would explain...
Logged
"The eye is blind if the mind is absent." - Confucius

"Limitation is inspiration." - Akira

charlie

  • NG Member
  • *
  • Posts: 587
Re: White top
« Reply #8 on: October 04, 2015, 01:47:53 »
Hi Akira, thanks for your comments.

Asphalt concrete is sometimes referred to as blacktop, perhaps this is predominately North American slang? The title is a play on that reference. The first image titled white top, the second black top. I'm not usually real big on titling pictures but for what ever reason I found it fitting here. I suppose everything's got to have a name on the internet though, right?
Logged

Akira

  • Homo jezoensis
  • NG Supporter
  • **
  • Posts: 12825
  • Tokyo, Japan
Re: White top
« Reply #9 on: October 04, 2015, 02:05:18 »
Hi, Charlie, thanks for the explanation.  If I would have known about the "black top" as reference to the asphalt, your title for the first image would have made perfect sense to me.  And it is, for sure, very fitting for this one part of the diptych.
Logged
"The eye is blind if the mind is absent." - Confucius

"Limitation is inspiration." - Akira

Jørgen Ramskov

  • NG Member
  • *
  • Posts: 1103
  • Aarhus, Denmark
Re: White top
« Reply #10 on: October 06, 2015, 13:16:13 »
Great shot and PP.
Logged
Jørgen Ramskov

golunvolo

  • NG Supporter
  • **
  • Posts: 7167
  • You ARE NikonGear
Re: White top
« Reply #11 on: October 06, 2015, 21:12:45 »
Quote from: Jan Anne on October 03, 2015, 16:18:51
Awesome image Charlie, really like the gradually increase lighting of the road which pulls the viewer into the dark and mysterious landscape.

Very well spotted, captured and processed.
Ditto. I will try a version in panoramic mode, it may work too.
Logged

elsa hoffmann

  • NG Member
  • *
  • Posts: 3822
  • Cape Town, South Africa
    • Elsa Hoffmann
Re: White top
« Reply #12 on: October 06, 2015, 22:48:00 »
love the road - it looks ominous - its great!
Logged
"You don’t take a photograph – you make it” – Ansel Adams. Thats why I use photoshop.
www.phototourscapetown.com
www.elsa.co.za. www.intimateimages.co.za

BEZ

  • NG Member
  • *
  • Posts: 336
  • RC51
Re: White top
« Reply #13 on: October 07, 2015, 00:29:59 »
One is so cool, well done!

It makes me want to get my motor running :-)

Cheers
Bez
Logged
Bez

charlie

  • NG Member
  • *
  • Posts: 587
Re: White top
« Reply #14 on: October 07, 2015, 22:24:07 »
And yet another middle of another road.
Logged
Pages: [1] 2   Go Up
« previous next »