Lullaby Lane

ShakeyShakey Registered Users Posts: 1,004 Major grins
edited February 2, 2005 in Landscapes
Cruz'n the alley ways I found this.

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Do you think I should crop off right at the top where the plywood ends.
That part of a window seems distracting to me.:dunno

Thoughts, comments,jokes critiques all welcome.


Tim
Cheers

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  • spocklingspockling Registered Users Posts: 369 Major grins
    edited February 1, 2005
    If you were to crop it off at the top of the plywood, I think you would lose the context of the whole image. There would be no reference. I wouldn't touch the cropping. How about a duotone?mwink.gif
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  • ShakeyShakey Registered Users Posts: 1,004 Major grins
    edited February 1, 2005
    Okay heres two more versions

    Color with crop
    15182167-M.jpg

    And a Tri tone
    15182947-M.jpg

    Any better or all trash?ne_nau.gif

    Tim
  • lynnmalynnma Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 5,208 Major grins
    edited February 1, 2005
    Shakey wrote:
    Okay heres two more versions

    Color with crop


    And a Tri tone


    Any better or all trash?ne_nau.gif

    Tim
    Hi tim.. I like the first one you did.. I don't think you should crop it either.. I like the way it is.. I think its a good shot..I like itclap.gif
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  • Steve CaviglianoSteve Cavigliano Super Moderators Posts: 3,599 moderator
    edited February 1, 2005
    I too, like the first edit. But, I have to admit, even though I don't like the tighter crop as much, the color version is very, very nice also thumb.gif


    Nice capture clap.gif


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  • ginger_55ginger_55 Registered Users Posts: 8,416 Major grins
    edited February 1, 2005
    I love the first version clap.gifclap.gifclap.gif . NO doubt in my mind which I like.

    great catch. Wish I had taken it. I love that kind of photography. I don't see it here, and I don't think I would see it in the "safe" areas downtown.

    gingerthumb.gif
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  • AngeloAngelo Super Moderators Posts: 8,937 moderator
    edited February 1, 2005
    I would not crop it. Doing so gives it the appearance of being staged rather than real, organic.
    I love the coldness of the original b/w.
    The color plays offered are creative but just individually subjective.


    Shakey wrote:
    Cruz'n the alley ways I found this.

    15179465-L.jpg
    Do you think I should crop off right at the top where the plywood ends.
    That part of a window seems distracting to me.ne_nau.gif

    Thoughts, comments,jokes critiques all welcome.


    Tim
    Cheers
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  • fishfish Registered Users Posts: 2,950 Major grins
    edited February 1, 2005
    Shakes, it would have been funnier if you had a shot of a drunk passed out against the wall. Sorry...no jokes this time.
    "Consulting the rules of composition before taking a photograph, is like consulting the laws of gravity before going for a walk." - Edward Weston
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  • Darryl CoxDarryl Cox Registered Users Posts: 11 Big grins
    edited February 1, 2005
    I like it
    as you shot it.

    The monochrome is appealing and leaves a lot of 'play' room for the imagination of the viewer. Just the condition of the walls, the hand painted parking zone wording and the reinforced door handle speak volumes.

    Thanks,
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  • pathfinderpathfinder Super Moderators Posts: 14,703 moderator
    edited February 1, 2005
    Shakey wrote:
    Cruz'n the alley ways I found this.

    15179465-S.jpg
    Do you think I should crop off right at the top where the plywood ends.
    That part of a window seems distracting to me.ne_nau.gif

    Thoughts, comments,jokes critiques all welcome.


    Tim
    Cheers


    Hi Tim.. I prefer this version over the crops and color versions also. I prefer this crop because cropping off the top raises the plywood sign lettering too high - as it is, it's perfectly placed in the left upper third position. Not that that position is magic - it just seems right for this image. B&W helps the gritty-ironic feeling this image presents to the world.

    The blue and orange colors are a lovely combination and look nice together, but don't fit the mood of this image to my mind. YMMV
    Very nice capture Tim thumb.gif
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  • ShakeyShakey Registered Users Posts: 1,004 Major grins
    edited February 2, 2005
    fish wrote:
    Shakes, it would have been funnier if you had a shot of a drunk passed out against the wall. Sorry...no jokes this time.
    Ill reshoot and bring my tripod I'll get wasted and slump against the wall myself.1drink.gifslosh .
  • ShakeyShakey Registered Users Posts: 1,004 Major grins
    edited February 2, 2005
    Thanks for all the replies y'allthumb.gif
    Ginger I do not think there is a part of Calgary I feel unsafe in. But then again as the song goes..." I've got friends in low places".naughty.gif

    This shot actually is the alley way of a trendy area of town It is very much in a transition period right now.

    Cheers
    Tim
  • fishfish Registered Users Posts: 2,950 Major grins
    edited February 2, 2005
    Shakey wrote:
    Ill reshoot and bring my tripod I'll get wasted and slump against the wall myself.1drink.gifslosh .

    man, I love your dedication to your art! ylsuper.gif
    "Consulting the rules of composition before taking a photograph, is like consulting the laws of gravity before going for a walk." - Edward Weston
    "The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over."-Hunter S.Thompson
  • lynnmalynnma Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 5,208 Major grins
    edited February 2, 2005
    fish wrote:
    man, I love your dedication to your art! ylsuper.gif
    can I come too shakey???1drink.gif
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  • USAIRUSAIR Registered Users Posts: 2,646 Major grins
    edited February 2, 2005
    Tim
    I like the color version best very cool.
    I love these kind of shots.
    13961689-S.jpg

    Thanks
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