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Aug 21, 2021 19:27:01   #
efex Loc: canada
 
PAR4DCR wrote:
Welcome to UHH efex, glad you joined us. Very interesting image you posted and thanks for the "How To".
Have fun, learn and enjoy the forum.

Don


Thanks Don!

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Aug 21, 2021 22:48:38   #
Vince68 Loc: Wappingers Falls, NY
 
Welcome to UHH. Very nice image.

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Aug 21, 2021 22:51:43   #
efex Loc: canada
 
Vince68 wrote:
Welcome to UHH. Very nice image.


Thanks Vince! Fun to get some feedback.

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Aug 22, 2021 08:39:27   #
photophly Loc: Old Bridge NJ
 
Welcome to the Hog 🦔

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Aug 22, 2021 11:37:03   #
jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY
 
Welcome to our forum!

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Aug 22, 2021 12:28:59   #
ReFlections Loc: From LA to AL
 
A BIG hog Welcome!

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Aug 22, 2021 20:11:12   #
efex Loc: canada
 
Thanks again, hogs! (esp the latest: ReFlections, Jerryc41, photoply :-))

So far so good!

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Aug 23, 2021 11:56:35   #
jack schade Loc: La Pine Oregon
 
Welcome to the forum.

Jack

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Aug 23, 2021 14:43:52   #
efex Loc: canada
 
jack schade wrote:
Welcome to the forum.

Jack


Thanks Jack!

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Aug 23, 2021 21:09:19   #
sippyjug104 Loc: Missouri
 
Welcome aboard..! Very interesting composite image and I noticed that the gal in the window is wearing a mask.

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Aug 24, 2021 13:12:12   #
efex Loc: canada
 
sippyjug104 wrote:
Welcome aboard..! Very interesting composite image and I noticed that the gal in the window is wearing a mask.


Yes indeed :-) Why? Well, I could say "just cause" of course.. but..

Well... the whole image has a subtext that relates to power, in the end. The building exudes mass (which is a visual reference to "power". Think of enormous movie-style starships, or the building with a single windowed section in the movie "I Robot". The darkness adds drama.

So, the stage is set for a human.. to add scale and create a reason for the building's existence. I could have left off the mask, and ended up with a very unusual portrait of an individual, sure. Adding the mask, however, removes her (individual) personal connection to the building, and replaces her identity with a more iconic figure.

As an iconic figure, she has a balance of power with the building: the image title (Black Dress Leader Overlook) implies that she is the boss (or source of power) of whatever is going on in the massive edifice. The building is not a "personal" place.. it has no charm, whimsy, or traces of humanity ( the building I built it from is in a style of Modernist architecture called "Brutalism", in fact). As such, I thought the person in power there needed to not show her individual personality so much as show the fact that it was her place, her show: we the onlooker never get to know anything about her beyond that. Thus the mask: we see her "position" of power here, but not her personality (so much).

I found that having these thoughts gave me lots of specific ideas for what to do, vs just making something cool :-) Also adding the mask made it more likely I could post the image !

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Aug 24, 2021 20:08:11   #
jpgto Loc: North East Tennessee
 
Welcome. Great photo. Enjoy and have fun.

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Aug 28, 2021 10:53:16   #
DickC Loc: NE Washington state
 
Welcome aboard sir!!

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Aug 28, 2021 15:56:28   #
efex Loc: canada
 
jpgto & DickC: thanks so much!!

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Aug 30, 2021 22:46:41   #
JohnnyDW Loc: Richmond and Sunshine Valley British Columbia
 
Cool image efex! I was waiting for it to be posted :)

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