Ian-
I love this kind of stuff, especially when it's about an exotic location like Russia.
And your decision to include as few people as possible certainly reflects the notion of this being a dying city.
All your shots have a yellow cast.
I'm not sure if it's a characteristic of your film (Fuji print- or slide?),
Or if you added it. or what.
And if you desire the yellow cast, that's fine.
But you mentioned that you don't know much about processing colour because you work with B&W.
So I'm going out on a limb here- and if you want me to- I'll pull my edit.
#1 is your first post in the series- I've done nothing to it.
#2 is a 10-second edit I made.
Because I used a slider, I could have decided on a great variety with the change. I chose this one to post.
Again- I'm just trying to help- and if you want me to pull my edit, let me know and I will.
Charlie
Thanks for the edit. It is quite close to how the original looked before I added the cast I wanted to my digital compact camera shots
I was looking to have an old Soviet colour film feel without going the whole hog and adding grain and whatnot. Just so the appearance matched the subject matter.
FWIW I don't regard it as a dying city - the Soviet bits are dying away but the new Russia of shopping centres, law firms, iMax, mobile phone shops and modern banks is bursting through like flowers among the concrete.
There is plenty wrong with Russia but I feel more optimistic about it than I did either in Soviet times or in Yeltsin's day. It has a future.
Dec 05, 2013 at 05:16 AM
Charlie Shugart Offline • • • • • • • Upload & Sell: Off
Gotcha, Ian.
And that's an interesting approach.
I went to the USSR just before the Berlin Wall was torn down.
After several weeks of travel, I had my concerns for the people in the western part of Russia.
In the east things were far simpler and far better. I actually saw people in the east smile occasionally- but not in Moscow.
They're good people (like most people around the world) and I wished them well.
They still have obviously serious problems, and I hope the successes of law firms and modern banks trickles down to the people on the street before inflation eats them alive.
Charlie
