Wet Hot Bake

[Stevenson Gawen]

I've been meaning for a while to get a shot of this local Vietnamese bakery, mostly as I like the aging signwriting above the shopfront. As I passed on my way home this afternoon I noticed that the sky colour made a rather nice contrast with the sign so I stopped and grabbed a few shots with my phone. (In raw - DNG - mode).

As I did so the clouds sort of burst... I was on the sheltered pavement, but everything else got rather wet very quickly.
Photo developed/edited in darktable - just contrast and colour tweaks initially, but finally decided to add a 1/2 stop graduated filter to the sky to better recreate my impression of the scene.

 

[Stevenson Gawen]

Y'know, the only issue with some pixls.us members showing up here is that you may all get rather tired of me posting images on both sites...

 

[Ralph Turner]

A fab image. I’m not normally a big fan of overhead cables (the blighters seem to get in front of so many things that I want to get a piccie of). Here, they really add to the way the sky repeats the patterns in the foreground, both dark elements increasing the impact of the shop fronts. Just my two pennies fwiw.

 

[Pete Askew]

I agree, the cables here form an essential part of the composition I think, along with those lines. And the colours and contrasts of the main elements are superb and I can see why you stopped. I think adding the gradient was a good idea too especially if it recreated your impression. To me that is what can transform a photography as a record to something else, whether done on a computer, by using a filter or in a darkroom.

 

[Stevenson Gawen]

Thank you Ralph and Pete! I thought the cables kind of worked... I spent a few minutes shuffling forwards, backwards, sideways and slantways trying to make sure everything lined up in some kind of balancing act.

 

[Ralph Turner]

All that shufflin' certainly paid off