Having something happen to the eyes is of course a stressful experience. I hope the weeks to come will gradually let you come back with full/normal vision!
June 25, 2025
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Hi,
Walls are walls, the crispy day made it better and the sprayed red together with the rebars made it!
The image is the kind of image making me stop and go back when scrolling my way down a homesite page. I like it and appreciate that the image was taken, processed and posted!
All god? Probably. That's personal though. I would have threatened it slightly different.
I would crop to the right making the image almost square as the wall make it tip over towards the right. The remaining part of the wall has a blue tone from the sky. To strengthen the feeling of intense white I would desaturate the wall leaving only a minimum of blue in it. Further, in my mind, I would also crop the image at the bottom following the concrete curbstones as the parking lot ground is not needed here and in fact is disturbing. Perhaps a 0.5 degree rotation would be necessary.
Something like that. I think it would increase emphasis on the red and the rebars thanks to balance improvements.On the other hand somebody else surely has it perfect as it is. It's seldom we all are happy at the same time. Thank you for the image!
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Jonas,
Thanks for commenting! Great suggestions.
I did crop the image to the right and decided against it. I liked the more "landscape" shape better, but I'm still undecided.
The horizontal lines are as "level" as I can get them in Photoshop. It's a little bit of an illusion that the image should be straightened. If I tilt it one direction, it looks off in the other, and back again. But, I agree it should look straight whether it measures that way or not. The actual wall runs uphill on the right, quite a bit in the unedited shot.
I probably could have made a pretty good composition with just the red curb, the paint splash, the rebar and the left end of the wall. But what looks like an empty street was filled with passing cars!
Rich
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Hi again
If you tried cropping I can't ask for more.
It seems as the situation at the wall clearly was more complicated than the finished image suggests. I know how it feels standing on, for example, a sidewalk with a tripod wishing everybody could stop move around for just a minute... Well, we get what we get and the image is good so well done! -
Hi,
Some of you may remember a couple of earlier images from my "No People" project. They were dark night time images. Here is one from the daylight part of the series.
I need some help, or input, here. In short: Is it just plain boring or does it add anything to the series (imagine 15-20 images showing known parts of Gothenburg but, unusually enough, with no people present in them)? Is it in any possible way interesting to look at it printed big? In short, print, edit or bin, that's the question. Ideas are welcome! -
I don't purposefully try to include or exclude people from my images. But I would guess that about 60% just wind up without people. It's never occurred to me that those were lacking in any way, being people-less.
I can't imaging anyone else's images would be boring, just because there were no people in them. (I might change my mind after seeing them, however! 🙄)
So I wouldn't advise you to restrict taking or showing images based on that criterion alone. In fact, I think it's silly to worry about it!
This image is certainly not boring. The color of the building is surprising, interesting, garish, ugly, beautiful. And certainly a conversation starter.
I really like its color juxtaposition against the brilliant blue sky and other "plain vanilla" buildings. You could have made the composition symmetrical with the building smack in the center of the horizontal measure which some would call boring, but I think would be compelling. I also like the off-center placement, here.
As a collection, a series of "people-less" images should be interesting. Bring 'em on!
Rich
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Alan,
I've been out shooting for a whole day on (many an) occasion and come back with not a single image I found worth keeping. Please don't get angry. But I think this group is one of those kind. Flat light, and frankly, less than interesting subjects. It happens.
The dark, sinuous tree is a little more compelling than any of the others, and may have held more interest "in person." It's a very cluttered "scene" and while the tree is, without question, the subject, it's just fighting with everything else in the frame. The two "framing" trees are not positive elements.
For these kinds of outings, there are 100 others that are brimming with fascinating subjects.
(Now someone will come along and prove me wrong on every one of these shots! 😀
A suggestion . . .
Rich
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An interesting image for being ambiguous as to any specific meaning and made more so by your "trademark" super-shallow DOF method.
Not knowing how you took the shot, I'd guess you used a single-element plastic hand-held "magnifying glass" as the camera lens. Or other very simple lens of some sort.
Why is this person offering us a pocket knife? Why is he dressed in dark blue (or black)? What's in the background? Is it a dream? It's pleasant. No it's sinister. No, it's neither.
While it's interesting on it's own, this is the kind of image, that in a collection of similar work would be quite arresting.
Rich
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A night out at the pub?
What's that dish? Tomato-based stew with pasta and cheeses on top? Or am I not even in the ballpark? Bead and butter? A dish for tips for the bartender?
Hearty appetite, mate. It looks like a cozy spot, and we're all right there with this wide-angle shot.
Rich
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Nested chevrons cradling sky and foliage. Very nice graphic treatment of architecture and nature. Limited palette of gray-blues and green.
I like the angle of the light, Turing the sky into an infinite softbox with its even reflection.
Rich
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Thank you for looking and replying, and for the nice comment!
The No People-series of images is a work in progress and a collection of images showing places well known to citizens of Gothenburg. Here however there is a little twist: there are no people in the images.
My idea is that the places/buildings are shown in a new light for those who haven't really looked at it. It might make for a new sight for some.
Whenever there is person in an image we tend to focus on him/her and I want to avoid that. Some of the places are hard to get without people in them.The series is planned to be divided in one darker and one brighter section. The red building is the first day-light image posted here. Earlier only two other images have been posted here:
The sauna
February 2025The train station
Mars 2025
I got good help from the forum with the train station.
/Jonas
