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Moving Through - 4

Posted by drphoto (Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom) on 19 April 2008 in Cityscape & Urban and Portfolio.

My housemate is a photography student and has recently been given an HDR brief to shoot 'spaces through which we move'; spaces which are never a destination and are essentially forgotten, overlooked.

This brief really captured my imagination and I've been looking for a good reason to try out some HDR programs anyway =D) So I thought I'd try a few for myself.

This one is taken from the other end of the same bridge as yesterday. This one is my favourite of this series (one more to come).

I've added a vignette to aid the eye into following the line of the footpath.

I welcome all constructive comments, compliments and criticisms.
I am here to learn. The fastest way for me to learn is for you to be really unforgiving and articulate in your criticism =D)

If you don't have time to comment don't forget to give a star rating as you pass through!

Dan

P.S. You can find my fashion and portrait work here: http://www.modelmayhem.com/drphotographer

My full website is now live, please check it out: http://www.dr-photographer.co.uk

Comments (14)

Saeed from Tehran, Iran

nice shot

19 Apr 2008 6:17am

@Saeed: Thanks Saeed =D)

Lorraine from Gatineau, Canada

excellent, you're really getting professional, wow

19 Apr 2008 10:46am

@Lorraine: Thanks Lorraine, this one is my favourite of the bunch so its nice to hear you say that.

Dan

yiannis krikis from thessaloniki, Greece

very nice use of space and I like the pov

19 Apr 2008 10:46am

@yiannis krikis: Thanks Yannis!

Betty from New Jersey, United States

Excellent composition! Nice shot.

19 Apr 2008 12:19pm

@Betty: Thanks Betty =D)

JustShenn from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Wow.. I Love The Sky ^^

And The Composition.. Awesome =)

But Seriously I Love The Bright Blue Sky

19 Apr 2008 12:28pm

@JustShenn: Lol, thanks, I'm glad you like the sky. I actually don't like it. The clouds look weird because it is a combination of different images - I am trying to keep the shots realistic but those darn cklouds wouldn't stay still for me!

GJC from Kyoto, Japan

I think the sidewalk here is particularly effective at "rolling" us into the photo. Very well done.

19 Apr 2008 1:47pm

@GJC: Thanks, I always appreciate your thoughtful comments Yakumo.

Observing from Chester, United Kingdom

Each of these cityscapes seems to be better than the last. This one is great, perfectly framed with the bridge leading in. Kudos to you. BTW your camera details don't show up.

19 Apr 2008 5:26pm

@Observing: Thanks Mike, I didn't actually upload them in any particular order. I like the 2nd one and this one the best, tomorrow's and yesterday's ar a bit weak I feel. But I'm glad you like 'em.

These were all shot with my Sigma SD14 and 10-20mm lens at f22 but aminus can't detect the exif from the HDR images I guess.

Chris from South Jersey, United States

I really like the sidewalk in this, and wonder if the image would be stronger without so much sky (but the sky is wonderfully blue!). Those buildings and the square windows match the squares in the sidewalk very nicely as well - a great image.

19 Apr 2008 7:28pm

@Chris: Thanks Chris, The 'sidewalk' is my favourite part of this image and the sky is my least favourite. i think the problem is that I have posted the image too bog and you have to scroll down to get to the good bits!

Dan

amy from Rocky Mountain House, Canada

It's a great pov of the walkway! But I'm finding the buildings distracting.. now that's me. I'm wondering if a b/w conversion would be better so then it would be just the lines you'd see. ??

19 Apr 2008 10:45pm

@amy: Really? Hmmm I rarely ever make b&w images but I see that it might work for this shot, which is composed mainly of lines. However, the buildings are all pretty much shades of grey anyway so I don't anticipate them becoming less distracting... I'll give it a try though!

Well, I tried it but I only liked the way the b&w conversion affected the walkway so I applied a gradient mask to remove the b&w from the upper half and now it looks like this.

danthro from Suburbia, United States

like the tones and textures, and composition. the sky looks kind of awkward, like it's been overprocessed for lack of a better term.

19 Apr 2008 11:09pm

@danthro: Thanks. You're right about the sky, it is an HDR artifact because the clouds were moving during exposures so the resulting combination of images looks weird in the clouds. I could have worked around this by choosing an image with a good sky and layering that over the top of this, but I was really just learning how different HDR processes work with these shots.

pLusOne from Cheonan, South Korea

you really have an eye for making things/places beautiful out of ordinary ones.
Greatly Done!

20 Apr 2008 7:47am

@pLusOne: Thanks +1, coming from you that compliment means a lot!

pedro alexandre from loures, Portugal

Awesome work i like the dark textures on that bulding.

20 Apr 2008 2:17pm

@pedro alexandre: Thanks Pedro, usually these buildings are lost against the grey skies of Newcastle but I feel the blue sky has allowed them to show their inner beauty!