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Telefón, the way things used to be!
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Went out snapping this evening.
Happened accross this at Woodlawn train station, east Galway.
You dont see many of these around anymore.
Very good Alan…
It is a bit central compositionally, though that does work fairly well in
this case. Great subject matter, and as far as I know this is something that’s
cropped up before on PI with people searching out these old booths to
photograph…I don’t know what process you used for your conversion to mono, but there
seems to be just a hint of a red/magenta cast to this that might be better
left out…There doesn’t seem to be any metadata either, so I’m curious about your setup
for the shot – the verticals are fairly puzzling here, the phonebooth almost true
yet the block building behind completely skewed…Still, a nice shot, and a good record of something that’s fast disappearing from
the streets and villages of Ireland…Hi Alan,
I used to “work” with the P&T/Telecom Eireann as an
engineer doing maintenance on telephone exchanges.That building behind the telephone box houses the
local telephone exchange.That type of kiosk is very scarce now and it looks like
public phones themselves may become an endangered species.Rob has kinda covered all the technical stuff.
Maybe the kiosk was’nt straight. :?John.
you’d wonder why they ran the dropwire to the kiosk, from the pole, when its so close to the exchange!
i would have put the public phone on the outside wall of the exchange……saved a couple of grand !!oops
just realised that the dropwire is the ESB supply to light the thing :oops:Thanks Guys,
Rob the colouring is supposed to be Sepia? someone mentioned that before on another of
my posts that it looked kind od redish, strange.Just converted to mono, Vignette and sepia, I must admit on my work computer this looks a
bit darker and murkier than my home pc ????Yea I found this hard to compose because of all the poles leaning at diffferent angles, I concentrated
mostly on the phone box and kept everything in the frame also like the 4 telegraph poles.I am working on 2 projects at the moment, 1 is communications and the second is
petrol pumps, i was corrupted by . . .https://www.photographyireland.net/viewtopic.php?t=27548
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https://www.photographyireland.net/viewtopic.php?t=27930
will be visiting this area again for sure loads of potential in east galway villages for both
projects.Rob, John and the stig thanks again, appreciate it.
Very good Alan… a nice little project you have going there. I checked out the petrol pump shots as well and I think it’s good to document these type of scenes before they are gone completely.
Although the way things are going, a lot of this old equipment might well find itself being brought back to life as funds for new projects dry up.
The Sepia thing is always a funny one..seems to divide people. I think it can be used too much and a little strongly…I usually like to add a little to my b/w shots ..but just a very small amount…usually around 15%, so that it’s barely there. It probably works best in the shadow areas..but I haven’t figured out yet how to add it selectively.
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