'Art School, Down Argentine Way'

This 'street' scene with its giant murals begs to be viewed 'large' for best

appreciation of its amazing art, on the walls of an 'art school' in Buenos

Aires. This is taken from some 'lost' photos' resurrected during a

rescan of some hard drives. Your ratings and critiques are invited and

most welcome; if you rate harshly or very critically, please submit a

helpful and constructive comment; please share your knowledge about

photography to help me be a better photographer. Thanks! Enjoy! John

A celebration of colors , Beautiful shot ................... A bit too crowded for the eye

And it also was mostly in shadow, but not all, with some in very bright sunlight, so I had to apply what was then relatively new (advanced) shadow/highlight filter very heavily to this.

 

Without it, it would have been unusable.

 

But it is a celebration of colors - a literal jubilation of more than graffiti. It's artists gone wild!

 

I liked it, but had a heck of a time trying to photograph it, as lighting was horrible and pedestrians were too small to really mean much, so this is not so 'artful' in my usual way.

 

But it is deserving for its colors/think of it as desaturated, and it loses its impact greatly - a true color dependant photo in my book.

 

Agree?

 

Thanks for sharing your ideas/right on as always.

 

Now if I had designed this mural collection . . . . .

 

John (Crosley)

 

 

Don't get me wrong ............... I really like it . It's a beautiful gesture for the artist who painted it . Such work of art can't be ignored , I know that I couldn't ignore it :)

In fact it is tremendously appealing AND eye catching.

 

However, I think it it is somewhat of a group effort, either of individual artists or maybe a professor and a group such as his class or a 'club' maybe de facto or 'ad hoc', as there are several 'styles' though tending toward the same 'group' or 'look.

 

I had absolutely no qualms with your critique at all, it was right on.

 

John (Crosley)

 

How very interesting!! The eye doesn't know where to focus first....and I mean that in a good way!! Very entertaining and imaginative!!

I'm a prolific shooter. I have terabytes upon terabytes of photos, and this was from three years ago, worked up but in Photoshop (.PSD) format which did not show in Windows when I was combing through an old hard drive, so I clicked on it to open it in Photoshop and I was 'blown away' - simply stunned that I lost track of it.

 

I have a majority of digital work I've taken (except birds, nature which were on stolen hard drives) and even today am backing up terabytes (yes terabytes, for distribution in various places, so a loss will not be irretrievable).

 

So, the original exists for anyone brave enough to get into several terabytes of digital captures, but this was pretty shadowy in original and required 'work' with shadow/highlight filter to make it viewable like it is.

 

I think it worked; your comment suggests so. In the original, it was pretty unviewable.

 

Imagine my surprise to find this old friend when Photoshop opened - I almost gasped!

 

How could I forget this one, and so many, many others. I could base a career just on combing my hard drives, I think.

 

Thanks Warren.

 

Health to you.

 

John (Crosley)