The Gauge
Dec 18, 2015 17:10:36 #
A 3000 psi liquid-filled hydrolic pressure gauge on a trash compactor. I don't know what is that I find so alluring about gauges! Perhaps it is the very industrial look they have. Anyway, a contrasty b&w look seems to fit well for this type of subject.
Dec 18, 2015 22:28:26 #
Frank2013
Loc: San Antonio, TX. & Milwaukee, WI.
rook2c4 wrote:
A 3000 psi liquid-filled hydrolic pressure gauge on a trash compactor. I don't know what is that I find so alluring about gauges! Perhaps it is the very industrial look they have. Anyway, a contrasty b&w look seems to fit well for this type of subject.
I like this kinda stuff also and dont know why. I would suggest toning down the blacks in the background just a bit pulling my eye away from the gauge just barely. Is it straight? seems counter clockwise or might be an optical illusion. I do like it.
Dec 18, 2015 23:14:11 #
rook2c4 wrote:
A 3000 psi liquid-filled hydrolic pressure gauge on a trash compactor. I don't know what is that I find so alluring about gauges! Perhaps it is the very industrial look they have. Anyway, a contrasty b&w look seems to fit well for this type of subject.
I like this too. I love to shoot old industrials as I call them. One of my favorite subjects is the old hydraulic cylinders and other mechanicals on a lift bridge I cross often.
This one has nice detail and a cool chrome finish on the case. Definitely monochrome!
I agree with Frank that the winding black things on the periphery are kind of distracting, and the background could be made less detailed. It does look a bit skewed. If you didn't mean it to be, you could probably fix it to look squared up.
Dec 19, 2015 00:04:11 #
Frank2013 wrote:
I like this kinda stuff also and dont know why. I would suggest toning down the blacks in the background just a bit
pulling my eye away from the gauge just barely. Is it straight? seems counter clockwise or might be an optical illusion. I do like it.
I actually did attempt to tone down the blacks in the background a little, but it made the image look like a cut & paste composite, which is definitely not what I want, so I resorted back to the original version. Even if the background distracts a bit, at least it looks natural.
No, probably not straight. In most situations I avoid perfectly straight, 90 degree views on planes, because that is generally not how we experience objects, but rather how things are presented in technical drawings, architectural plans, etc.
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