Culvert Pipe Storage

These are sewer pipes in storage, waiting to be shipped. Submitted

under 'fine art' with a subcategory of 'industrial'. Your ratings and

critiques are invited and most welcome. If you rate harshly or very

critically, please submit a helpful and contructive comment; please

share your superior photographic knowledge to help improve my

phtography. Thanks! Enjoy! John

I think the contrast could be bumped (maybe, did not try it). It is a catchy (is that a word?) photo, -different. Does belong in fine art and more interentersting than the usually street. Over here there are opportunities such as this to do something different than what everyone else is shooting as in other catagories, street/nude especially. I am coming to think that fine art is about the only original stuff around now. I have a book "The New Zone System Manual" which is not new now at all because I bought it in 1977 back in the good old days of middle age. There is an example or two of sewer pipes photos used to teach the zone system. Maybe the reason that this photo attracts me.

Wow. This is shot mid-day? Did you use a polarizing filter? I really like it. The only thing that I think bothers me is shadow (?) in the bottom right. Very nice shot.

I once remember admiring the work of some Midwest photographer or a pair of photographers who photographed Midwest scenes and Mountain States scenes in Black and White on film and they all had amazing, dramatic skies.

 

Someone remarked that perhaps they were the best printers, ever . . . . because their reproduction and image quality in large format was so outstanding.

 

Now this is a digital photograph but I now understand how they were able to get such outstanding captures -- they were just very good as using filtration and knowing the properties of their film. Black and White photographers who want dramatic skies tend to use 'red filtration' greatly.

 

Well, in downloading a capture taken in 'raw' format or even converting a color JPEG to B&W, one can control which colors predominate before the conversion is made -- at least in Photoshop Adobe Camera Raw, so one can adjust the underlying color sliders 'to taste' before making the conversion.

 

The result is one can control the tonality of a capture -- whether it is light or dark or some shade of gray in between often by adjusting the relative degree of emphasis of the predominating underlying color -- e.g., perhaps its 'saturation'.

 

With cement, sidewalks, etc., a member taught me to look to the 'blue slider' and to play with it for best values, and in most cases the 'red slider' has some substantial worth to play with. If a photo is taken under tungsten lamp, it is always worthwhile to play with the 'yellow' and maybe the 'orange' slider, and see what you get. They don't count as 'manipulations' since they're 'global' -- e.g., they affect the whole capture, and manipulation in PN terms counts only for 'selections' if one views the guidelines, and if I understand them well.

 

The shadow, right corner, easily could be cloned, and in the master, I may clone it out -- now that you mention it, it is a little distracting, but in my original posts, I generally don't do such things, and if something is to survive or be exhibited later or be proposed for exhibition (since I've never exhibited), then I'll make a decision later about cloning. Very much manipulation is not in my blood, but when it's 'fine art', then I may be more inclined to do a little more touching up then otherwise, and I am sure you can see the rationale -- street photography has more need to show its originality and genuineness than something presented for its pure aesthetic qualities.

 

You have added valuable understanding to this capture - thanks for sharing your thoughts.

 

John (Crosley)

I have cloned out the shadow, lower right corner, 12-11-2012.

 

It was easy with 'select' and 'fill' 'content aware' set to 100%.

 

Took about less than one minute.

 

It does add to the photo, I think and the shadow detracted.

 

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John (Crosley)