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really cool. Where is this building?

 

The shot is well composed and interesting. The blur factor ruins an otherwise great shot. If you can do it again!

This building is in downtown Toronto, somewhere around Front St or L'Esplanade. Yeah, it is blurred because I made this contact print with the negs still in the plastic "PrintArchiver" holder. The light from my Ikea desk lamp had to go through 2 layers of plastic before it hit the paper. If I have time, I'll make a real print and repost it ...

heh, actually, I like it this way - it adds an ethereal quality to the image. If it were sharp and perfectly printed, it would be les interesting. Even the ghosting from the multiple layers of plastic add something to it, like a soft focus portrait. Art isn't following technical procedures properly, it is the happy accidents and lazy shortcuts as often as anything.

thanks for the comments ... it's been so long since i posted this old photo that i almost completely forgot about it.

 

although this could be classified as an architectural type of shot, i still consider it one of my first attempts at street photography. i was still trying to figure out what in photography i liked, and i think this was on my 2nd roll of film.

 

these days i am purely SP, and pretty much always focusing on the human relationship between each other, and to our environment.

 

http://www.prefocalmag.com/samchan

 

Cheers,

Sam