against the sun

I am actually reposting this shot, the old one deleted. feel free to

comment...thank you!

I admire the processing (in a sort of way).

Apart from that, I don't think it all comes together somehow. Is it meant that the buildings lean backwards and towards the light? I sort of feel that the light and the clouds (perhaps with great colour before the B&W conversion) might have  been the 'focal point' of the image, but I'm not sure. Could it be the few lone figures amongst these buildings. The empty bus shelter? I'm sure there is, or was something here, but I'm not getting it. Is it just your successful exercise and achievement of pulling back detail whilst shooting against the light?

To come back to with the first point I made, I respect and appreciate the process made to achieve this image, but perhaps those would be best appreciated with an image other than this. This is all said with the best of intentions of course. best wishes ~ mike.

I did a quick distortion correcting example to kind off show the point of having building stand the way they should. But doing something like this on a low jpg always also introduces a large amount of loss of detail...

(PS. Just another thought. Me doing this in a separate post also enables you to delete this particular posting  entirely if you wish. Please feel free to do so if you want to.)

Hi Mike,

thanks for all your time and effort. however, I am entirely happy with the way the image looks. i didn't correct the distortion  on purpose - I would have lost the corners, and besides, i simply LIKE the DISOTRTION. to me the perspective, and  the sense of enormous space covered by the lens both add to the feeling of being lost, the emptiness, etc. and the grim and sombre bw postprocessing aims at increasing this feeling.

FYI: I shot in broad daylight with both the polarizing and grey filters on the lens (the grey stops the shutter about 100 times) and in the end i just played with the whole idea, that's it. so, there were no particularly appealing colors in the sky, at the time, nothing special.  

cheers,

Tomasz

Yes, I rated lower than excellent, the system didn't let me, I've spent my sevens for this date! Sorry!

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