Gas Lamp, Window, and Two Telephones

I *love* those red telephone booths in London! I took this image

because I found it to be gritty. You have the ancient window, the

scuffy walls, and the nostalgic gaslamp...then these spanky bright red

telephone booths!

 

I softened the image a bit to play up the grittiness and the

drearyness of the January weather in England.

 

How do you like this image? :)

 

Thanks in advance!

i think i really would like it better if it were crisp!

 

5/5

I like this shot it is nostalgic and I like the red on red. I too would have liked to have seen a sharper image. still very nice composition. 6/6

 

Susanna C. Clapsadle

Composition and lighting are great but I too would like to see it sharper.

I love the bold colorful graphic feeling, which the soft focus may enhance. Good eye. How long were you in London ?

softness adds to the feeling of timelessness I think. adding sharpness might bring out the reality of the scene, and cement it in a specific time and place - but I'm perfectly happy with the whimsical dreaminess of it. the colors are so saturated, it looks halfway unreal already.

Good comp.... tc

Actually, I had one of these done in a 5x5 print, and the softness worked out really nicely! I look forward to putting it into a matte black frame and presenting it to my dad. I wouldn't have liked it as much if it were sharp. Unfortunately, since none of you are locals, I can't show you how it looks as a 5x5 lustre print on paper. :-(

 

Oh, and Sarah -- I was in England itself for 13 days and in London for 7.

Laura, good shot! The red telephone boxes are few and far between now as they have mostly been removed or replaced with anonymous modern things. Fortunately the ones that survive are protected as 'listed buildings' for historical reasons.

Nice one. It's like a postcard (in the good sense of it). Not only the color, but the composition is nice I guess.

 

Regards.

It's a nice and interesting crop, but the pixelation degrades its general good aim, I dont know if as result of the jpg compression or as a previous color manipulation.

 

Also, beeing you here after a "geometrical" kind of image, there's a tilt to the right of the vertical lines, specially noticeable on the pole of the lamp. Solutions would be re-shooting with a longer lens and from farther away, and also in a post-processing step, a perspective correction.