Last fall, early Sunday morning, a Yakima street.
Pleas offer your constructive criticism, suggestions, impressions. Many thanks!
Beautiful shot Linda. I really like the 3D effect. The street is about as empty as one of ours at mid-day in the summer
Are you trying to flush out the obsessives?
. Haze, distractions, power lines etc etc. Yep, the real world can be hard on obsessive types
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On the other hand, if a sense of place was your priority I'm left in no doubt as to the type of place that it is (did you have to wait for the car to appear?
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Excellent image, you can spend time looking at all the details. The processing is excellent as well.
Not your typical landscape shot. But it does have all the elements. Big beautiful mountain, hazy morning, directional sun. And a added bonus a โ mainโ street.๐
Beautifully composed and presented, Linda. Looks a frame from a Hollywood movie.
Curmudgeon wrote:
Beautiful shot Linda. I really like the 3D effect. The street is about as empty as one of ours at mid-day in the summer
Glad you enjoyed, Jack. Can you describe what makes it feel 3D?
R.G. wrote:
Are you trying to flush out the obsessives?
. Haze, distractions, power lines etc etc. Yep, the real world can be hard on obsessive types
.
On the other hand, if a sense of place was your priority I'm left in no doubt as to the type of place that it is (did you have to wait for the car to appear?
).
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Sense of place was not a "priority," it was the point of the photo! Here's a hazy, lazy early Sunday morning, warts and all, including an ugly brown hill devoid of green. Are you attracted to it, curious to examine the details, repulsed by the ugly or bored with the mundane? Hopefully, folks will feel an emotional response of some kind or other.
I can't recall for sure, but I believe the vehicle arrived just as I'd determined my composition. Someone pointed out that the image is better than if the street had been completely empty. Little details like that I'm not necessarily consciously aware of, so it was gratifying to hear.
As for haze removal, I think it's a lot more fun - and the results are more alive and full of mood - to work with weather and light that's not picture-perfect...so to speak
Thanks very much for commenting, R.G.
UncleBuck wrote:
Excellent image, you can spend time looking at all the details. The processing is excellent as well.
Thanks very much for your interest, Dave!
NJFrank wrote:
Not your typical landscape shot. But it does have all the elements. Big beautiful mountain, hazy morning, directional sun. And a added bonus a โ mainโ street.๐
Thanks, Frank. It's very representative of "downtown" Yakima this decade. In Washington State, that "mountain" is just a little hill
joehel2 wrote:
Beautifully composed and presented, Linda. Looks a frame from a Hollywood movie.
Thanks Joe, delighted you enjoyed!
That's quite a busy photo for a basically deserted street--perhaps the not-so-busy is rather busy after all.
Nice shot, Linda. I like it.
If I had seen this scene, I probably wouldn't have raised my camera because of all the wires. And if I did take the picture, I'd immediately think about trying to remove all those wires. But if one removes the wires, why the poles. If one removes the poles, what is left of the scene? I feel like the most interesting part of the image is hidden behind those wires, yet I cannot see it. Why, oh why, didn't I walk 10 paces further in to get past the wires? I see this so often when traveling. There's a beautiful scene (or building or whatever), but it's hidden behind a mass of wires and cables and poles. So, then the wires and cables and poles become the picture. It is what it is.
Sorry, long response just to let you know my thought process reacting to the image.
jaymatt wrote:
That's quite a busy photo for a basically deserted street--perhaps the not-so-busy is rather busy after all.
Nice shot, Linda. I like it.
Not busy with bodies, just "stuff" ? Thanks for checking it out, John!
AzPicLady wrote:
If I had seen this scene, I probably wouldn't have raised my camera because of all the wires. And if I did take the picture, I'd immediately think about trying to remove all those wires. But if one removes the wires, why the poles. If one removes the poles, what is left of the scene? I feel like the most interesting part of the image is hidden behind those wires, yet I cannot see it. Why, oh why, didn't I walk 10 paces further in to get past the wires? I see this so often when traveling. There's a beautiful scene (or building or whatever), but it's hidden behind a mass of wires and cables and poles. So, then the wires and cables and poles become the picture. It is what it is.
Sorry, long response just to let you know my thought process reacting to the image.
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Please never apologize for "long" responses, Kathy. I miss our indepth discussions of previous years in For Your Consideration - yeah, even with those danged nasty trolls.
It was very educational and interesting to learn how you viewed this photo and what you dislike and what you would do differently. For me, the poles and wires are very much a part of the character of the scene (and the composition). I might not have raised my camera to my eye if they hadn't been there
Many thanks for your time!
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