Abstracts

[jcoldslabs]

That's my two cents.

And in case Austin is in need of a total of four cents (your two plus my two), I would love to see this cropped down to just the tarp--no sky, no foreground--to make it purely abstract.

J.

[jp]

I was in Yosemite last weekend and noticed this cracked slab of granite while wandering around the valley. I was drawn to the combination of shapes, lines and tones.

Chamonix 4x5, Nikkor M300, Delta 100, Rollo Pyro

Nice; we have much slabs of granite in my area, and it's a fun and limitless subject. Angle of light, filters, weather, a million possibilities in addition to the composition and tones.

[jp]

http://www.flickr.com/photos/13759696@N02/10938320595/

It's got some strange scratches in the scan's upper left. Makes it more interesting. Could be just a bad scan because it's overexposed and the scanner doesn't like that. It's a nice shape I might go back for more with a soft focus sometime. 4x5 tmy2 in pyrocat hd. yellow filter. speed graphic and 203 optar.

[austin granger]

Hi Austin I really like this one. I would make the contrast even more and let the white sky go pure white. thats my two cents

Thanks Bob. You know, I hadn't even considered that. It's a force of habit I guess, to pull back from the edge and retain some tone. I'll experiment and see what I think of it.

And in case Austin is in need of a total of four cents (your two plus my two), I would love to see this cropped down to just the tarp--no sky, no foreground--to make it purely abstract.

But what about my tires? I like the tires! Seriously, that's another possibility I hadn't thought of. Sometimes I find that the quality of large format can almost be a problem with this sort of thing; one can crop so dramatically that the potential versons can seem infinite.

[austin granger]

Behind a Pizza Parlor, Milwaukie, Oregon


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

[jcoldslabs]

Now that is a dizzying array of vertical lines. Sometimes I get banding like that in the shadow areas of my transparency scans.

Jonathan

[Harley Goldman]

Behind a Pizza Parlor, Milwaukie, Oregon

Very well done, Austin. Great lines and diagonals.

[Ari]

Great stuff, Austin; made my eyes hurt, but in a good way

[billie williams]

10134514 by urbanlandcruiser, on

Wista 45 Field
FP4 @ 100
Rollo Pyro

Wow! Great shot - love the composition.

[austin granger]

Thanks all. I'm kind of kicking myself now though; as I was setting up a couple of employees came out for a cigarette break. I should have asked them to pose for me, but at the time I was too busy trying to cram my head between the ground glass and the wall of the building next door. Oh well, another imaginary picture for the "should of" pile.