stairway 2
Side stairway of Ocean Grove's Great Auditorium.
I feature that dumb piece of architecture way too often.
Side stairway of Ocean Grove's Great Auditorium.
I feature that dumb piece of architecture way too often.
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Well, it has great angles, shadows composition!
But the colors are too much.
I agree. But I didn't like how washed-out they appeared when I originally posted the photo. I think I overcompensated.
I like the photo. Is this the 'dumb' architecture you mentioned?
Abraham Lincoln
Brookville Daily Photo
Yes. So is this, this, and this.
As it turns out, I don't feature it quite as much as I thought I did.
I agree with Abe: "I feature that dumb piece of architecture way too often."
Isn't it the largest timber structure in the NE (despite it having a steel skeleton?!!)
Umm. You'd know better than I.
i like the color...
that said, i wonder about the composition... (if i may say so without sounding rude)... the tilt/cant is at that point where the viewer may wonder if it was accidental or purposeful... a little more, and it is easy to decide it is/was your intent... a little less and it would 'read' as accidental/incidental...
...I don't remember.
I think the initial slant was accidental, but I think I tried to play it up. I think.
What can I say? I wasn't taking risks back then.
Oh wait. I still don't.
(laugh)...
come on!... take a risk!...
Digital photography is great for risk-taking. However, I must admit I also find it difficult to shake my inhibitions. I don't know if it's because I've been conditioned by the whole film process being so slow and expensive, or because I'm simply lame. (But I have my suspicions....)
mgilpin, I think it would be tough for you to come across as rude if you tried. (That is not meant as a challenge!) Personally, I always found the tilt in this photo to be pretty deliberate-looking, giving it a bit of extra tension. Tilt it any further and it becomes too blatant and unrealistic for my taste.
(Also, the upper section of railing is just about perfectly vertical in this framing, serving as kind of an anchor for the various slantedness swirling around it. The more I look at this picture, the more I like it. Lots of interesting geometry, helped greatly by the lighting.)
mgilpin- Yeah, yeah, tomorrow.
John- It took me over a year after getting my camera to get over my film-inspired inhibitions about photography, and even then, it was deviantART that really got me out and taking photographs when it wasn't strictly necessary. My point? You're already on Flickr; if you start looking at the Groups, start getting people to look and comment on and critique your photos, the experience suddenly becomes much more fufilling.
Oh- and m- John may not be challenging you to try to be rude, but I'd kind of like to see it. ;)
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