post your urban landscapes

[stradibarrius]

Austin, you have a great eye! The high line shot is one I would have pasted up because I wouldn't have seen the potential...

[johnmsanderson]

Hillsboro, Oregon


http://www.flickr.com/photos/austingranger/

"The power lines have floaters so the airplanes won't get snagged." -Driver 8

Here's another urban/rail image. A subject I've been working on the past coupla months. I was kind of inspired by Gursky/color field approach. This was with a 58mm lens to capture the horizontal impact of the building. I was wary of using an ultra wide lens because I think some of the impact of the building detail is lost (though I do like how the WA captured the sun's glint waning from right to left), my only other option would be to stitch several images from a longer lens together, which I might end up doing. Also I'm unsure about the cut off text

[jon.oman]

I like the image, but not the cut-off text.

[John NYC]

I like the image, but not the cut-off text.

Agree. I would go back with a slightly longer lens and leave off the text.

It is a really great image.

You might also try different variations in daylight as well as twilight. I don't know if the light ever hits it sideways at sunup or sundown, but that could be cool as well. Kind of a variations on a theme thing.

An iPhone/iPad app called LunaSolCal can tell you about the sun azimuth and altitude for any given day or time, as well as all the sunrise sunset twilight info.

[Terry Hayden]

Fresno, Ca. - early 1980's ( building long gone now ). This was right across the street from the railyards - so aptly named.

Camera - Sinar F
Lens - 90mm super angulon
Film - Agfapan 25

[johnmsanderson]

Agree. I would go back with a slightly longer lens and leave off the text.

It is a really great image.

You might also try different variations in daylight as well as twilight. I don't know if the light ever hits it sideways at sunup or sundown, but that could be cool as well. Kind of a variations on a theme thing.

An iPhone/iPad app called LunaSolCal can tell you about the sun azimuth and altitude for any given day or time, as well as all the sunrise sunset twilight info.

thanks for the feedback, John. I first envisioned this composition with some sweet sunset cross light, unfortunately this rail line runs north/south at this section of the Hudson and that will never happen.

[johnmsanderson]

Agree. I would go back with a slightly longer lens and leave off the text.

It is a really great image.

You might also try different variations in daylight as well as twilight. I don't know if the light ever hits it sideways at sunup or sundown, but that could be cool as well. Kind of a variations on a theme thing.

An iPhone/iPad app called LunaSolCal can tell you about the sun azimuth and altitude for any given day or time, as well as all the sunrise sunset twilight info.

thanks for the feedback, John. I first envisioned this composition with some sweet sunset cross light, unfortunately this rail line runs north/south at this section of the Hudson and that will never happen.

Though I agree I think the text does more harm than good -- the eye is too easily drawn to it, rather than the repetition of the tracks and building...

[BetterSense]

Austin, you have a great eye! The high line shot is one I would have pasted up because I wouldn't have seen the potential...

I agree. The image has quite a tension to it. Its induction into the viewer of alternating high and low fields grounds it in a vocabulary which while not current, is almost magnetic.

[Leigh]

Also I'm unsure about the cut off text

I would much prefer to see no text or the entire text, although I don't know how long it is since I haven't seen all of it.

As presented, the image ended at the right edge of my browser window so I scrolled right expecting to see the rest of it.

Other than that, great image.

- Leigh

[jacobby]

My first time doing large format long exposure at night.


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