Cold Storage

Posted by Twelvebit (Victoria, United States) on 4 March 2009 in Cityscape & Urban.

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bluechameleon from Vancouver, Canada

There is so much silence there. The long shadows are kind of spooky, the structure gritty. Yes, this is the place....very cool.

4 Mar 2009 5:03am

Linerberry from Sumner, Christchurch, New Zealand

Wow this is pretty cool!! No pun intended:-)
Great work and amazing long shadows!!

4 Mar 2009 7:14am

Polydactyle from Montreal, Canada

Great light and textures. Excellent b/w compostion.

4 Mar 2009 1:01pm

Craig@Random Ramblings from Herts, United Kingdom

Great gritty tones that I really like. I can't make my mind up if this is HDR or not, if it is then it's very well done indeed. I can't quite get my head around the angles, the steps in the foreground and the door appear straight but the building is sloping off, it's screwing with my brain! ;-)

4 Mar 2009 1:51pm

@Craig@Random Ramblings: Well, it's not "true" HDR. It's just a single photo, but I created three images --avg, light, and dark, and processed it as an hdr image. Then I played around a little with the contrast. The angles are no doubt due to lens distortion which I did not correct.

Daryl from Amagasaki, Japan

Becoming abstract... great tonal patterns.

4 Mar 2009 3:31pm

MadScientist from Düsseldorf, Germany

Great processing, looks like a drawing. Super details!

4 Mar 2009 4:42pm

@MadScientist: You hit it. I felt it had some unusual quality but I couldn't put my finger on it until I read your comment.

SKHallisey from San Salvador, El Salvador

great shot, i agree it does look liek a drawing. i need to get into these 'semi-hdrs', nothing so intense that the tonal range distracts from the form and the frame, but instead reflects what would be considered great post-processing. well done

4 Mar 2009 5:49pm

@SKHallisey: Thanks. I think the hdr process can be used as a quick substitute for layers and other adjustments --which is, I guess, essentially what you're doing when you process off a single frame.