Critique Welcomed Gallows Lamp

[Brian Moore]

This I find weirdly appealing. Wonder what you think. The building is the Los Angeles COunty Courthouse.

Olympus XA and Arista EDU 400 processed in Rodinal.

 

[Rob MacKillop]

Me too. The lamp is overpowered by light, which is a kind of witty joke - you intellectual, you! Nice angles and lines too.

 

[Glenn Clabo]

Weirdly appealing is a good call Brian. It was clever to juxtapose the light pole to with the building.

 

[Ivar Dahl-Larsen]

I really don't know, but everything is big in the US. Plenty of lines here and I wonder how it would it be in black and white.

 

[Tom Dunne]

So, obviously not what you were expecting Brian. However defects and imperfectations can provide something really interesting, like this picture, taken with a great angle that gives it impact. . A great result and I can't wait to get stuck in to the home processing again.

 

[Brian Moore]

Me too. The lamp is overpowered by light, which is a kind of witty joke - you intellectual, you! Nice angles and lines too.

Intellectual schmintellectual! When I took the picture I lined it up so that the sun would seem to be the light from the lamp. I didn't expect the sunlight to overpower the lamp quite so much. But thanks, Rob!

 

[Brian Moore]

Weirdly appealing is a good call Brian. It was clever to juxtapose the light pole to with the building.

Thanks, Glenn. Much appreciated.

 

[Brian Moore]

I really don't know, but everything is big in the US. Plenty of lines here and I wonder how it would it be in black and white.

It actually is a black and white negative that I scanned as a color negative. That's what gave it the bright sepia look. Do you remember the images I posted yesterday, Ivar, "To My Left and To My Right"? (http://www.realphotographersforum.com/forum/threads/to-my-left-and-to-my-right.17997/) It is the post that caused you to ask me to send you some German sausage,...do you remember...? Anyway, those images were from the same roll of film. However, I found that the tone imparted on the B&W image by color scanning varied wildly depending on the lighting conditions of the shot. The less the available light, the more like a traditional B&W image the tone of the scan was; the more the available light, the more the image took on rose-colored to yellowy bright sepia tones. So, the tone of this image is what it looked like out of the scanner.

 

[Brian Moore]

So, obviously not what you were expecting Brian. However defects and imperfectations can provide something really interesting, like this picture, taken with a great angle that gives it impact. . A great result and I can't wait to get stuck in to the home processing again.

Correct, Tom. I expected the highlights not to be so spectacularly blown. Thanks, Tom. (Looking forward to seeing your home processing results!)

 

[Julian de'Courcy]

Nothing to add but my admiration, of once again providing us with a great photograph Superb Brian.

 

[Brian Moore]

Nothing to add but my admiration, of once again providing us with a great photograph Superb Brian.

That's very kind of you, Julian. Thank you.

 

[Dave Young]

However, I found that the tone imparted on the B&W image by color scanning varied wildly depending on the lighting conditions of the shot. The less the available light, the more like a traditional B&W image the tone of the scan was; the more the available light, the more the image took on rose-colored to yellowy bright sepia tones. So, the tone of this image is what it looked like out of the scanner.

Being a non-filmie kind of guy I have absolutely no idea what this means!

Great image tho Sir

 

[Brian Moore]

Being a non-filmie kind of guy I have absolutely no idea what this means!

Great image tho Sir

Dave,...once I develop the film I then use a film scanner to convert the negatives to digital files. When you scan a neg you have to tell the scanner what kind it is (color or B&W). I simply told the scanner that my film was color (I lied) and then the scanner made a digital file. But the tone of each image differed depending on the available light the film had absorbed at the time of the shot. Does that make more sense?

Anyway, I thank you kindly for you comments!

 

[Dave Young]

Dave,...once I develop the film I then use a film scanner to convert the negatives to digital files. When you scan a neg you have to tell the scanner what kind it is (color or B&W). I simply told the scanner that my film was color (I lied) and then the scanner made a digital file. But the tone of each image differed depending on the available light the film had absorbed at the time of the shot. Does that make more sense?

Anyway, I thank you kindly for you comments!

Thank you for the explanation Brian

 

[Pete Askew]

I lik this very much Brian. It feels as though something momentous is/was happening or had happened.

 

[Brian Moore]

I lik this very much Brian. It feels as though something momentous is/was happening or had happened.

Thanks Pete. There's that word again,..."momentous." Hmmmm. (Strokes beard on chin with three fingers and thumb.)

 

[Pete Askew]

Think Rene Burri!

 

[Paul Lange]

I like it for many reasons, the comp works well I think, as does the tint and grain.

 

[Brian Moore]

Tha

I like it for many reasons, the comp works well I think, as does the tint and grain.

Thank you, Paul. Much appreciated.

 

[Peter McCullough]

"This I find weirdly appealing".

So do I, superb, love this style/effect/abstract.

What was it shot with can I ask?