construction lights

This is a deceptively beautiful image. It took me about 5 minutes to realize it's the facade of a building under construction. The support columns threw me off; I thought they were iron bars or a screen of sorts closer to the camera.

This photo won first place in a local competition last year. I

loaded it with quite a few others when I first joined, so it got

buried. what do you think?

The angle of this shot looks weird. I like it!

Your picture just has this interest that you can find almost perfect proportions in it : I mean, the exponential growth (the intervals between the columns), and the other geometrical family of paraboloid like forms of the floors... one of which makes you an almost perfect curbed diagonal ! and the lamps just constitued another curbs family... so you'll have all the mathematicians (or 'géomètres', to put it in Pascal terms) with you... so perfect that I just ponder over its authenticity, due to the lack of details that jpeg compells us to...

 

anyway, interesting, thanx... :)

 

David

 

Genuine abstracts suffer on photo.net. Authenticity is part of the issue. I am shooting up so there is very slight convergence which is straightened with skew in PS. Otherwise, it's what you see.

Wonderful pattern of repeating geometry. It really took me awhile to get any kind of handle on what this was and I'm still not sure. I do recognize the boards, columns, and light bulbs. The boards seem to overhang each other-- was this under a stadium? Also, has this been desaturated and then sepia toned in PS?

 

 

One problem, for me, is that this seems to overall lack sharpness, although, I guess this contributes to the obscurity of the subject.

This is the skeleton of an office building under construction - all concrete, no wood. The original slide had a reddish brown cast which I clumsily attempted to restore as an afterthought after converting to grayscale. The winner was a B&W print.

 

As we've discussed, sharpness is an issue that I'm working on. I bought a Gitzo 1410 tripod last week and would love to upgrade to a better scanner - or get a D100 :-).

I would agree with Rhett on the sharpness issue, but aside from that I think this image is executed to perfection. I like the warm tone of the shot. This image is all about repetition of shapes and patterns. It is very well composed. I can see how it would command much attention in a competition. Congratulations on your winning image. I like it a lot.

Great concept!

Nice pattern. I think the tone works good here , too.

David Cortés was right here, the fascination of this image (for some of us, at least) is of a mathematical, abstract nature, and comes largely from the fact that both the horizontal intervals between pillars and the vertical intervals between storeys decrease as the eye moves diagonally towards the upper left corner - this could be a portion of a print by Escher. This is just an application of the general concept of "repetition with variations", which often is at the base of so much great music, architecture, literature, and visual arts. As usual, the play of geometry and light is too subtle for the average PN viewers/raters; I am glad that the competition committee knew better. Incidentally, I like the brownish toning much better than straight BW.

For those of us who shoot light and patterns a lot, it's nice to know that there are folks out there who understand and enjoy what we're up to.