romania CEC building

This is a promise following to my comment on the "Voaleta" building in the same folder: the same image in photo and drawing.

And since I wrote on the use of B&W negative as framed slides in that "Voaleta" comment (long), here such an attempt for this building. This is obviously thanks to the wonders of DTP software, as the original was colour slide; however ...

I will post such an original negative soon :)

 

Doesn't it look like night lighting?

Thanks for looking so far

Maria

However, although the building IS in reality that grey as in the photo, I found the B&W version (not the negative) quite boring.

 

So here the sepia version, which I like more, and which is, to a certain extent, fashion for historic buildings.

I recall formerly there were "presentations addressed to you" - I cannot find that button ...

 

In any case, I'd address this photo to you (with the comments). Thanks for your previous comments!

 

I attach a bigger version of the drawing (photo.net max size).

 

best regards

 

Maria

 

PS: This is a French style building in Bucharest, and on the other side of this road is Lipscani ... almost vis-a-vis. A parallel street to Lipscani has the entrance to CEC as perspective end.

Hi,

 

I became the habit to start with putting myself some comments, before

waiting for suggestions.

 

This is another building from Bucharest, from another time than the

one formerly posted.

 

You are welcome to tell me if one of the variations in the comments is

more worthy to request critique :)

 

thanks for your time

Maria

I like the angle here. Its just too bad about those telephone lines isn't it. They dont really add anything to this shot. Great building though.

consider warming the shot to lessen the blue cast. also the black mass to the right does not add to the shot crop tighter.

I like your drawing although I am not the right person to ask. To address a presentation to someone you go to your portfolio and you create a new presentation. The system will ask you for a title. Once you define the title you will be directed to a page with options: Edit Presentation (Edit, Delete) ... Recipients - this presentation is publicly viewable (toggle). Click 'toggle' and the option will turn to 'Add recipients'. Click and you will be able to define the members to whom you want to address the presentation. Here, I just followed some of the suggestions above and I increased the contrast to remove unecessary detail in the sky (maybe too much though).

Hi,

 

thanks for the comment.

 

About the telephone lines: well, that's the disadvantage of photography as opposed to other ways of representing two dimensionally 3D objects: unless you manipulate the image, they are there :(

 

Especially in this 'presentation' it becomes obvious.

 

regards

Maria

Hi,

 

thanks for the comment.

 

Above you see a cropped version (with warmened cast). This way it isn't visible though that there are those domes at every corner :(

 

Maria

Hi,

 

thanks for the attachment!

 

I spent about an hour correcting the colour (or warmening the cast, how George said), but still did not come to your results :( (see image to the comment above)

 

I changed the contrast to 50%, to sharpen the lines at the glass dome, edited the blue, green and red curves, and sharpened slightly. How did you do it? The brown plastering you obtained is much better!

 

thanks again

Maria

Maria, sorry, I didn't keep any notes. But, generally, I correct the colours using several basic functions in Windows Photo Editor (PE)and/or Photoshop Elements (PSE). The first thing I do is automatic and manual adjustment of brightnest and contrast and/or levels adjustment (PSE). I find the 'variations' function of PSE very useful for colour correction because one can preview the various possibilities. I finally adjust the saturation of the general colour or of individual colours and almost always add yellow and red (particularly for pictures of Greece as everything is too blue there). Warm colours make photos more attractive, in my experience.

 

But your version is practically identical to mine!