"Night Move"

I think the success of the photo was that you tilted the horizon line. It made the visual impact stronger in combination with the streak of light from the truck. Congratulations Wilson.

Excelente lightning and motion, i also love the detail in the foreground, great

atmosphere, best regards

Great and dynamic angle, Wilson. As usual in your folders...:-) And technically excellent, taking full advantage of combining 2 exposures the right way. (As usual too, if I remember well your previous POW.) So, all is well and leaves very little space for criticism. You do clean and dynamic work on regular basis, and here is your second reward on PNet. Well done.

I think some of the raw "city" feel of this photo comes from the brilliant idea to use a manhold cover for the foreground. Wilson has also taken full advantage of the reflection provided by the water on the road, which lights things up a bit more.

The wet street & reflections look good. I was thinking about crop from top to make it square, and not showing the building so much but I quess it's ok this way.

I'm new here and posting for the first time. It appears my post will differ from the above.

 

The image doesn't work for me for the reason that people like it.

 

1. The image is a time lapsed photograph using a tripod

2. As a result of the above, the framing / composition looks completely awkward and artificial to me

3. To use this angle suggests "letting go" or freestyle. And this framing creates the complete opposite effect. It screams "control" and "the objects being photographed are not important"

4. The image looks interesting to me with my glasses off (not joking). I think it would have worked for me, if it was completely out of focus. Or it would have worked for me if framed as we normally view the world.

Drunken frog.

 

It's alert and very artistic. You make it look very easy, but it's not.

Interesting and clever work.

 

Regards J O

It is great the way that the foreground interest is enough to keep your eye on it for a while before being pulled along the street towards the base of the building. I guess this is achieved because the balance between fore/background is spot on and there are no other distractions.

 

One of the fascinating things about photos with a strong foreground/background theme is that although the photo is two dimensional and your EYE does not need to refocus when moving around the image, your MIND will only allow you to focus on either the foreground or the background. As you change your attention from one to the other your mind throws the other part of the image out of focus, treating it as if it were three dimensional.

 

Try it! You end up looking at pictures to see to what extent your mind takes you on a journey.

 

(I would add that I wish I had the skill to 'see' this sort of possibility when deciding what to take pictures of. You have a great eye Wilson!).

Were you kneeling in a puddle when you composed it?

I think the diagonal framing is brilliant! It brings your eyes into the manhole cover, up

the street to the building, and then entices you to follow the building up to the light at

the top which points the way for your eyes to exit the photo. I learn something new

every time I view one of your images. Now if I could just start seeing things the way

you do when I'm holding my own camera. Wilson, as usual, great work.

What I like about this photograph:

I like the nighttime composition; I like the low angle, and the truck; I also like the way the street channels the viewer to the building in the background.

 

What I think needs improvement:

There is not one hint of shadow detail in this photo (yeah I know it is digital) they are all black; the color balance is off, the green lights are blue; and I am so utterly bored with the tilted architectural image that I fell asleep looking at your.

 

Sometimes mass appeal means you have dumb things down--this is one of those cases.

 

This is on one of the best night-shots i've seen in PN.Very pleasant color, not overloaded with motion effect and brilliantly exposed.The diagonal crop, the reflections and the sewer cover give extra "volume" to the photo.Excellent work Wilson.Regards

I love it!!!

Superb reflections and wonderful colors! I wish i can take one like this some day :) congratulations!

This photo doesn't work for me, either as a photograph or as an abstract art work. In fact, it looks like a mistake, the kind of thing that might happen as one is loading film or accidentally trips the shutter. Its dissonant in the same way that clutter is. I see no planning in the composition. The dark man-hole cover (thanks for telling us what it was) dominates the frame from the lower left, and is just a "what is that?" The weight and placement of everything in the frame is out of kilter. The recognizability of everything else just adds to the confusion and feeling that it is a mistake. It could work perhaps rendered completely abstract but the bright tall building would need to be a diagonal within a diagonal. I know that art and photography is not necessarily meant to make us feel good but I like to find some meaning in images. What was its title: "Discordia"? That might make me revise my opinion, as long as I don't have to view the image. Amazing though, only a couple of us to whom this photograph doesn't appeal. Two last questions: Did this look good through the shutter, aside from the indeterminancy of planned blurring? What about bracketing for composition, to at least have some other choices? Pictures usually don't improve as prints.

after looking at this shot, another thing i had to look for was words(: speechless!!!!

First, congratulations on surviving a long exposure on a Chicago street!

 

Congratulations too on evading the clutches of "Ome-hay And-lay Ecurity-say". The surveillance cams must have missed you. ;o)

 

Some guy kneeling beside a manhole, pointing some thing at a Federal Building? We're lucky you're not on permanent holiday at "Antonomo-Gay Ay-Bay".

 

Oh and congratulations too on a very well seen and constructed image. :D

 

The interplay of color, geometric forms and texture make it dynamic and very strong. Your careful placement of the primary building and its reflection draw my eye in

 

The accurate exposure and WB is important in that it gets the gold color of the Fed "right" and flows into the rest of the composition. The color of the blurred truck rushing toward it re-emphasizes the gold of the building without distracting from it. Did you get lucky? Or did you color the truck yourself?

 

The manhole cover adds a real sense of depth to the composition. Without it the image appears quite flat.

 

And you used a "cheap" "old" P&S to accomplish this! Thanks for proving again that the photographer makes the image and really good ones can do so with any decent gear.

 

Cheers!/"Ott-Scay"

Congratulations! Well done my friend.

Congratulations! Well deserved and long overdue. I am a big fan of Wilson's folders, all well done. My personal favorites are his usually found in the Sports Forum. The capture and the expressions on the players faces are remarkable...Heck, even I know what a man-hole cover looks like.

WOW this is one of the best shots I've seen! It's fantastic!!

Wilson,

 

My hearty congratulations on this photo's being chosen as Photo of the Week. This work deserves the honor!

Not such an artist as many of you are, although I did immediately know that was a man hole cover. A great shot that captures the energy of the night. As someone who worked many nights on the streets of Houston as a medic I can tell you this has that clean but edgy feel of the night after a rain. You always knew something strange was going to happen and it usually did. Thanks for a step back in time for me and an awesome photo.

Bill

Wilson,

Great shot. The colors, exposure, unusual perspective, the depth of focus and the combination of moving and sill subjects came together perfectly. Congratulations on creating a maaaaaarvelous image for all to enjoy.

 

Big Jerry

This photograph just pulls you right in! Awesome colors. Really great photograph. LOVE IT!

I love the tilted, the foreground man cover, the reflection, the blurred truck. It's like a scene from Spiderman movie. Congratulations on an excellent photo, one of many equally great photos in your portfolio.