Painting Artifacts

[Simon Ritchie]

Hi,

Here's some images from a work site where painters were at work. As you can tell (thanks to Pete) I'm a William Eggleston tragic (I like his work that is ). Robert Shore is also someone worth checking out.

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I must say that it's nice to be able to post these types of pictures in a forum where there are others like me (or maybe not). I have posted some of my work in other more generic posting sites and just got ignored, I can only guess that it was'nt the sunset / landscape / grafitti type pics that seem to have the mainstream acceptance.

I'm always interested to hear of comments / critiques too

 

[Jim Kuo]

Love the top left

Is the machinery in the top right painted, or it's a picture of a real thing?

 

[Simon Ritchie]

Hi Jim,

Firstly, I love your Avatar text "The man in the hat" = Lol !

The top right pic is part of a real machine. An air compressor if I'm not mistaken - used to power the spray painting guns the painters were using.

My gear was a Fuji X-E1 and 35mm Fujinon lens. The images were hugely downsized from original image size, PP'ed in PS, softened and framed with "polaroid" edging.

Thanks for your comment too.

 

[Rob MacKillop]

I like them, and find the Polaroid edging quite humorous.

 

[Pete Askew]

Keep them coming Simon - I love them. And I really like the PP you have employed to give that 'analogue' look. The steps is a wonderful bit of framing I think.

 

[Hamish Gill]

Well I like them too!
the colours are lovely, and they suit thier frames ...

i can't imagine fr one minute that there is a forum out there where anything outside of conventional is ignored

 

[Ahmad Bhai]

Foot prints is marvellous as is the Jackson Pollock

 

[Simon Ritchie]

Hi Rob,

Thanks - often I just use a narrow white edging on web based photo's but I had shot all these pics in a 1:1 format on the Fuji X-E1 and figured they'd suit that polaroid look

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Hi Pete,

Cheers, good on you for noticing the analogue look I'd applied (it's part of the PS action I have).

re: Image layout 2 images per line and 2 lines.
I'm not sure if you noticed the " . . . " between the 2 images per line in your browser. I placed spaces between the IMG tags in the post but could only get 1 space to appear separating each pic per line (I tried the HTML   trick too but that didnt work) so I ended up placing "." dots to perform the separation.

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i can't imagine fr one minute that there is a forum out there where anything outside of conventional is ignored

Heh - I gather you have run into this too

 

[Simon Ritchie]

Foot prints is marvellous as is the Jackson Pollock

Thanks Ahmad, actually that Jackson Pollock was a cloth sheeting that painters use to drape over the ground to catch the drips.

When I saw it, I could see a painting also !

 

[Kev Pugh]

I too like these as observations of 'stuff' I'm not one for the rules so keep these coming.....

 

[Brian Moore]

Four nice ones, Simon. My favorite is the colorful steps.

 

[Simon Ritchie]

... I'm not one for the rules so keep these coming.....

Sure will !

(btw: your avatar pic reminds me of a gun-slinger )

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Four nice ones, Simon. My favorite is the colorful steps.

Hi Brian, Yes, there's an assortment going on in this set of 4 but they were all related to paint

I think my favourite was the Empty Bicycle Stand image in my previous post.

Thanks for your comments.

 

[Pete Askew]

Sure will !

(btw: your avatar pic reminds me of a gun-slinger )

That'll be the KK Kid you're talkin' about there mister. Fastest gun in Pershore!

 

[Kev Pugh]

That'll be the KK Kid you're talkin' about there mister. Fastest gun in Pershore!

Quickest Draw and fastest shot in the 'vin....

 

[Allan Batchelor]

I like that 1st one quite a but.

Keep them coming Simon - I love them. And I really like the PP you have employed to give that 'analogue' look. The steps is a wonderful bit of framing I think.

Ye cause there all square crops!!

 

[Beth Carter]

i like the first one, reminds me of the queues at disney when i was a kid. the colored steps also caught my eye. nice series overall.