In the arches

gubbs

snapapple

gubbs wrote:

Oooh! I like the second one. There's kind of a motion feeling in those bricks. Like they're swirling. Both nice shots though.

Head in the Clouds

Love the second one
Makes me feel like i'm bumping my head on the ceiling!!!
First one's nice too, but second is very 'arty'!
nice one!
Love the b/w too.

ginger_55

I like them both, but I love the brick in the first one. Too bad it has distracting swan in it, too. And you probably were photographing the swan, lol.

I have a thing about brick, that brick looks especially photogenic.

ginger

gubbs

Thanks everyone, ginger this one's for you if you like bricks. I think I posted this before, but nevermind!

PerezDesignGroup

The 1st is just so intriguing. The mark in the stone mimics the swan's neck position. Really weird and cool at the same time. Nice work.

ginger_55

Thanks, Gubbs. You did post it before. How could I forget beautiful brick, smile.

Very nice picture. I do, I love brick, old brick is best. I love the round part of this one, too.

ginger

rutt

gubbs wrote:

Blown swan desease in the first. But the second is stunning. I'm always trying to find interesting compositions and geometry in everyday objects, usually with medocre results. So I like seeing it succeed. Gives me hope.

happysnapper

Nice shots Gubbs, I especially like the B&W one... makes your eye move to the stairs.

Yvette

photocat

You did it again Gubbs. Lovely and attractive pics.
Are these old sewer buildings?
I have to agree with the last poster that the way you angled the second shot really makes the eyes go to the stair.
I can almost feel how I would stand there bend over not to hit the ceiling.
Nice work... (What do you do with all your photo's?)

Michiel de Brieder

That B/W is just stunning, dynamic, appealing, a little harsh, but I like that! Would you care to elaborate on your B/W conversion?
Thanks for sharing!

gubbs

Thanks for the comments Yvette & Cat,

photocat wrote:

You did it again Gubbs. Lovely and attractive pics.
Are these old sewer buildings? I have to agree with the last poster that the way you angled the second shot really makes the eyes go to the stair.
I can almost feel how I would stand there bend over not to hit the ceiling.
Nice work...

Sorry, I really should get in the habit of giving some explanations and locations.

No they're not sewers, these arches are underneath the viaduct that supports the railway line coming out of Windsor Station and cross the river. They go for a mile or 2. I have plans to go and shoot them as they cross through the fields and allotments, I just need to work out how to get close to them!!

photocat wrote:

(What do you do with all your photo's?)

I just post them up on Smugmug and here at the moment. My wife bought some frames to start putting some up but I can't seem to get my colours right on the printer, its very frustrating!! Family shots and holidays we put into traditional albums. Other than that on my hard drive and archived off onto DVD.... Is that what you meant??

Thanks again

gubbs

Michiel de Brieder wrote:

That B/W is just stunning, dynamic, appealing, a little harsh, but I like that! Would you care to elaborate on your B/W conversion?
Thanks for sharing!

Thanks Michiel, from memory (not good!) I used a channel mixer layer, upped the red to about 150 then balanced it back down with the red & green... I' ll post the exact settings when I get home this evening.

Thanks again and welcome to DGrin

photocat

I just post them up on Smugmug and here at the moment. My wife bought some frames to start putting some up but I can't seem to get my colours right on the printer, its very frustrating!! Family shots and holidays we put into traditional albums. Other than that on my hard drive and archived off onto DVD.... Is that what you meant??

Thanks again [/QUOTE]

I just bought some Ilford Smooth gloss paper, and I have gotten a really good result on it. Mostly I take my cd's to the store and have them processed there. I find that printing at home is time consuming, and if your screen and printer are not calibrated, almost impossible to do. I cring when I see that my magenta cartridge ran out at the bottom of a huge A4 print...

To avoid situations like that, I have them printed which gives me better paper, and longer lasting prints.

I asked what you do with photograpsh, as in digital days, we take so much photographs and I am afraid that most of them never get seen or even get into books. I am a scrapbooker too, so i Love to have my digitals on print too.

I wonder how many good pics are lost for the future because they were taken digitally and not stored properly or get lost...

On the other hand, I took over 13000 pics last year, I am now in the process of catalouging them... Made me wonder what to do with all those shots...

marygrace

Sweet!
Thanks for sharing! These are great. I'm inspired to go out and look for arches now.

gubbs

Michiel de Brieder wrote:

That B/W is just stunning, dynamic, appealing, a little harsh, but I like that! Would you care to elaborate on your B/W conversion?
Thanks for sharing!

Michiel,

Sorry, I warned you my memory was bad...
Used a channel mixer layer, monochrome box checked, with the following settings...Red -88, green +182, blue +10
I was initially trying to get an ir feel to it
Here's the original which looks pretty dull