'Airport View'

A passenger takes time at the to overlook the longest takeoff and

recovery runway and the San Francisco Bay from an elevated spot by a

upper floor elevator at a San Francisco Airport Parking garage. Your

ratings, critiques, and observations are invited and most welcome. If

you rate harshly, very critically or wish to make a remark, please

submit a helpful and constructive comment; please share your

photographic knowledge to help improve my photography. Thanks!

Enjoy! john

Interesting geometry of space!

I download and almost never review at times beyond the capture I'm looking for, or that's the way I did it once (this is a fine example).

This is different in color and black and white, and for my money wonderful in both.

For the life if me, I can't imagine why I have never seen it before or have no memory of it, since I can recall EVERY shot I ever took, given prompting.

I do remember taking it, but not ever seeing the download; apparently I never saw or reviewed it; in fact a good deal of my time is spent (from time to time) finding overlooked gems.  If I had seen it, it would have been posted, and whether color or black and white is anybody's guess, as it's quite different in each.

Imagine, overlooking this one.

If you saw the color version, you'd kick yourself twice (or three times).

If you were me.

(Reviewing my older captures is an adventure!)

john

John (Crosley)

Can you imagine it's been years, and I never saw the download of this one?

I glanced at it in review last night and was astonished.  I took that? I remember being there and the taking dimly but never saw the photo.

There's much more in my half million captures, too.

And as my Photoshop skills improve, there's also good stuff I passed over as impossible for me to process under prior skills that's now workable under my present (still poor but improving) skills, especially now that Photoshop has improved so much, such as with the new 'quick select' tool.

Best to you Svetlana, from Mr. Forgetful.

john

John (Crosley)

Excellent work! I am sitting in my cubicle and thinking same that guy's thinking!

I was watching him watching where I was going (or had just returned).

I never had a cubicle, but I was chained to an office for 17 years.

That was enough for me.

Never again.

At one point, I made MONEY by traveling, for each mile I traveled I got more credits for further travel by two times.

Can you beat that?

I don't dream any more; I do.

Thanks for the comment; don't be chained to that cubicle forever if it irritates you - find an alternate plan.

john

John (Crosley)

Can you believe in review of old captures I just FOUND this?

Unbelievably I had previously just passed it over, unseen.

john

John (Crosley)

I think this is temporary construction materials, maybe while they were building or rebuilding BART around the airport at San Francisco.

It does not look like permanent construction; I've never seen anything meant to endure in the USA that looks like this; corrugated metal is too easily dented and thus deformed looks bad forever.

john

John (Crosley)

The corrugated has good blacks and whites -fortunate for your shot. But on the contrary; with a hammer and your best effort you'd not do much more than scratch this stuff. I pass the exact same kind of walls everyday.

This shot, taken in late afternoon/early evening looks good in color, with the corrugated sheet metal being somewhat orangeish/reddish in hue and the sky, distant, also being somewhat reddish toward the upper part and blue/green toward the earth as this is pointing almost due East, opposite the setting sun.

In other words, the colors harmonize and look really good.  If it didn't look so good as a classical black and white photo, it easily could have been posted as color; only the contrast had to be adjusted and the exposure lessened a little to bring out colors that were washed out a little -- overexposed by the metering, and that is not a real issue, as metering often is not 'dead on' and our job as photographers is to apply our eye to seeing the best in a photo, not being a blind slave to a series of algorithms in a meter.

Some day, some where, look for a repost, maybe not on this service.

john

John (Crosley)