Ch 61 Watching Whiteread

vangogh

Took a half day off yesterday & nipped into central London to get a few possibles.

Would love some C&C as to whether I'm on th right lines please. Here's a sample







These ones were more difficult as I was inside the Tate Modern Turbine Hall & the white boxes are the award winning piece by Rachel Whiteread entitled Embankment. Is there too much noise, to little clarity etc?





I look forward to your comments

Txs

bwg

vangogh wrote:

Took a half day off yesterday & nipped into central London to get a few possibles.

Would love some C&C as to whether I'm on th right lines please. Here's a sample...

i love the concept of the white boxes...i think that needs some more exploring.

play around with your composition and definitely try to get some light in there! (maybe different time of day or something)

§imone

Nice perspective on your third pic.
An award winning room full of white boxes OK Im more tempted to go knock out out of its place. lol

twinbnj

out of all the pics # 3 has great potential, and the first with the boxes.
Boxes being my first choice, I agree with bigwebguy. If you can't get back to shoot you could try and work it in photoshop.

waveneyman

Hi Nicola.
The street shots are ok, tho' need a little more 'something' for dramatic impact to rise above mere record shots.
The Tate Modern shots are more interesting and altogether more challenging as a subject. I visited before last Christmas and found the light levels a real challenge and all the boxes difficult to show scale wise - the first is best. #2 WB is a bit wayward and could do with cooling off a touch imo.
Keep up the good work
cheers
mark

saurora

The boxes are terrific!!! Lots of potential there. Keep the color as understated as possible....minute amounts. Remember, you want to think you are looking at a print that was developed in black and white...only it's not...it's a full color print playing tricks on your eyes.

vangogh

waveneyman wrote:

Hi Nicola.
The street shots are ok, tho' need a little more 'something' for dramatic impact to rise above mere record shots.
The Tate Modern shots are more interesting and altogether more challenging as a subject. I visited before last Christmas and found the light levels a real challenge and all the boxes difficult to show scale wise - the first is best. #2 WB is a bit wayward and could do with cooling off a touch imo.
Keep up the good work
cheers
mark

Thanks everyone for all the comments. I personally agree with Simone! I want to knock all the boxes down!! They remind me of a warehouse. I'm can't see how a pile of white boxes can be "ART", but each to their own!! lol (Had a discuss about this with a friend recently when we went to see it together, she loved it as she's a Modern Art fan, I told her my opinion of it:D. Needless to say we didn't agree lol ). I have a Finepix compact so only have certain options. I had the ISO at 400. If I go any higher the picture size goes down. I had the WB in flourescent to try & cut out some of the colour. Aperture was 2.8, the lowest my camera can go & shutter was 1/80, the lowest I can go handheld. I've already tweaked the contrast & levels on PS so not really sure how else to "improve" them as I'm won't be able to do a reshoot till the w/e after next. I'm going to have to find out if the Tate wil let me bring a tripod in perhaps. They allow artists with folding stools so maybe they will.

Here's a couple more (untweaked):