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FIRST NATIONAL BANK


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Great old bank, any idea the year it was built? I have an addiction to old things:)

 

Good angle and the lighing works well to not blow up the whole building..

 

Great job.. I'll have to go peruse your folio to see if you have any olther old buildings?

 

Cheers Cole

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I'm sorry I don't know anything about this building or the town it's in. I was on my way home from Montana (to California) and stopped in a number of small towns, because that is what I like to photograph. This town was obviously economically depressed, as it had many empty buildings. You can see that this bank is not looking too prosperous either. I don't know if it was functioning or not (it was a Saturday). I have several photos from this town in my portfolio.

 

Thanks for your interest.

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I like how you shot this. It's always interesting to me how the photographer sees his subject and out of the uncounted millions of possible angles and choices, why he settled on this particular composition. I don't know why this image keyed that particular train of thought, but there's just something so substantial about the picture, as I guess is fitting for The First National Bank of Small Town, USA.
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My thoughts were that the bank was clearly not rolling in money, and may have already closed, like much of the town. So my intent was to make the shell look as big as possible, with the concept being that it was hollow and empty, and, yet show how grand it once was.
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Of all things to think about, my first thought was "Why didn't someone get rid of those trees sooner?" They're going to play hell on that foundation, not to mention the pipes. Looks like a solid old building & may still be in use? I like the angle you chose too, you can see what's behind the facade this way. Nice shot. Nice old bank.

 

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Thanks. I'm not surprised you would find this interesting judging from what I have seen of your work.
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I just came back to have another look. I didn't notice the Lion's heads. I've seen these around here, mostly on old or abandonded buildings. Must've been the fad back then.
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That is an interesting observation. I was looking at them at one point myself, and wondering what the devil were the reasons for them. Simple adornment, or thoughtful addition?
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Dave, Like the hotel according to my monitor and ps histogram I can improve this a lot with an increase in contrast. The whites jump out at you.There is more detail in bricks on top and white stone in the front. However I loose the detail on the side bricks by brighting up the photo. NOthing I could do with that except shot at a different time a day. The grey of the steet is the same in your contast and mine. The front door hardly changes so it is still in zone II. You shot it right -in the dark room you would have been using the wrong contrast filter.
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So in essence you are saying that in order to increase the contrast to what you would like in some areas, I would have to lose detail in others? Of course there are no excuses, but I shot this and about fifty others as I traveled with a deadline. I drove about 800 plus miles this day and still got some pretty good photos.
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