[Leica] IMG: Indoor street photography - B&W Architecture

[philippe.orlent at pandora.be (Philippe Orlent)]

Beautiful series, Douglas.

Now, about the first one, and the car storage towers,
Very strange effects on both: they are perfectly straight (I checked  
this at large magnification, though it just being via your low res  
jpegs) but they don't seem so optically.
This causes imbalance.
In the first one's case, this is due to an optical effect (dome vs  
'straight' chimney), and in the second one it's due to a light effect  
(dark cilinders vs light on the forward one from the right).
In both cases, it has a compositional effect: whether you choose to  
keep this imbalance or not, is entirely up to you. You determine the  
effect.
And wether it 'd be imblanced or not, it's just two different but  
equally acceptable ways of 'seeing' and 'presenting' this image.

So, astonishing shots, that I'd love to see on a big and detailed print.

Personally, I think that if you would PS the first one so that the  
chimney would 'lean' a bit more towards the dome, and 'lean' the  
towers a bit more to the right part of the image, you would take away  
this imbalance, and attain a higher level of classical aesthetics.
But that is just a matter of taste, and does not change my  
appreciation of the shots at all.

Beautiful tonalities, too BTW.

Thanks for showing,
Philippe



Op 27-okt-07, om 18:06 heeft Douglas Sharp het volgende geschreven:

> A few more from the VW site in Wolfsburg last weekend - this time in
> black and white
>
> This is part of the house that Adolf built
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/d/105184-1/VW_Chimney.jpg
>
> This place is so large that people move around in groups, it makes you
> feel slightly lost and nervous
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/d/105168-1/Herding_behaviour.jpg
>
> and people don't look at anyone else - the man was less than 3 feet  
> away
> when I stuck my camera more or less in his face
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/d/105171-1/Reception_Desk_2.jpg
>
> This is where the new cars are stored
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/d/105181-1/VW_Towers.jpg
>
> This is where customers can watch them being "extracted"
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/d/105178-2/VW_Tower_2.jpg
>
> Hope you enjoy looking at them more than we enjoyed our visit  - if
> you're only there to pick up your new car 4 to 5 hours there is more
> than enough.
> Cheers
> Douglas
>
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