This is one of those Photo Icons that the experience of going and being there is way way better than any image I have seen of it. Images really do not do this place justice but this one is indeed one the best I have seen. The shadows and mid tones are a bit muddled and the extreme highlights a bit too saturated but overall stunning image. The composition is indeed different from what I have seen and the stitching of the 14mm shots a good choice and well done. It really gives a good feeling of the space.
Nice work with the super wide shot and stitching! This more expansive view works for me and I like seeing something different from the subway. Take it with a grain of salt but for some reason I like the look when just a little bit is cropped from the left to remove the majority of the closer wall before the arching crack.
rainshadow wrote:
Nice work with the super wide shot and stitching! This more expansive view works for me and I like seeing something different from the subway. Take it with a grain of salt but for some reason I like the look when just a little bit is cropped from the left to remove the majority of the closer wall before the arching crack.
Phil
Thanks Phil. I like your idea, and may crop like that on the final print.
Thanks everyone for your comments - thoughts!
All appreciated.
Oct 03, 2015 at 10:51 AM
Mark Metternich Offline • • • • • • Upload & Sell: On
I love this shot. It's crazy (I've never heard of this place before - as most Euros maybe haven't either). I enjoy your processing, it is undoubtedly a more 'fashionable' than 'realistic' rendition but it's what people like and no doubt what sells too. Your work in getting to this location, and creating this shot, deserves to put a few $$$ in your pocket.
Wow... and wow again. The colors, the contrast in the colors, the details. Wow. I know I don't have 1/10 your PS skills... I just hope I can get some decent shots when I go in a week +... and suggestions?
Mark Metternich wrote:
Super image Matt. Would love to see a huge print of this.
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Thanks Mark. Maybe this would be a good candidate for metal. I haven't done many. Most of my work is printed on Hahnemuhle FineArt Baryta with a Canon imagePROGRAF iPF9400.
Frogfish wrote:
I love this shot. It's crazy (I've never heard of this place before - as most Euros maybe haven't either). I enjoy your processing, it is undoubtedly a more 'fashionable' than 'realistic' rendition but it's what people like and no doubt what sells too. Your work in getting to this location, and creating this shot, deserves to put a few $$$ in your pocket.
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Frog, agreed. Definitely a more "fashionable" approach. Some people like it. Mostly it stems from my recollection of places. This quote from Emerson says it perfectly IMHO:
Because the soul is progressive, it never quite repeats itself, but in every act attempts the production of a new and fairer whole. This appears in works both of the useful and the fine arts, if we employ the popular distinction of works according to their aim, either at use or beauty. Thus in our fine arts, not imitation, but creation is the aim. In landscapes, the painter should give the suggestion of a fairer creation than we know. The details, the prose of nature he should omit, and give us only the spirit and splendor. He should know that the landscape has beauty for his eye, because it expresses a thought which is to him good: and this, because the same power which sees through his eyes, is seen in that spectacle; and he will come to value the expression of nature, and not nature itself, and so exalt in his copy, the features that please him. He will give the gloom of gloom, and the sunshine of sunshine. -Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays: First Series on Art
FullHousePhoto wrote:
Wow... and wow again. The colors, the contrast in the colors, the details. Wow. I know I don't have 1/10 your PS skills... I just hope I can get some decent shots when I go in a week +... and suggestions?
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