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I didn’t get very good light for this one. Comments welcome. Edit if you like.
I think this is a really good shot Pete, and I like the colour and tone; I think this would make a really good print.
There’s a lot of blue in the white, though there’s nothing wrong with that, and perhaps there’s even room for some more, but then you never know how some people are going to take criticism, so its difficult to say.
I’m not a stickler for rules, as such, but I’d like to see a bit more sky at the expense of the sand beneath the chimney. I see thirds here when a little more discord might be in order. I love the square crop-
While you’ve rightly posted this in the documentary section, I’ve discovered that a 0.5 deg cw rotation would make it eligible for the Architecture section- perhaps it would attract a different critique there?
j
I’m going to be on the other side of the fence on this one and say overall I think it’s a pretty weak shot. You hit the nail on the head when you said you had poor light on this one and that for me has pretty much ruined the photo. It’s just so grey, so flat, so Irish :) Leaving that aside, if there was just the lone cottage with the reflection, on a better day, with warmer light this could be a real keeper, but the holiday homes/caravans just look ugly. They take your eye off the main subject, leaving you wander around the scene and never settle at anything. Not one for me I’m afraid :(
ciaran wrote-
” if there was just the lone cottage with the reflection, on a better day, with warmer light this could be a real keeper, but the holiday homes/caravans just look ugly “That may just be the intention of the picture, maybe we’re not being invited to ‘like’ the scene-
It is in the documentary section-j
jb7 wrote:
That may just be the intention of the picture, maybe we’re not being invited to ‘like’ the scene-
It is in the documentary section-j
Yup… good point
Joseph
I think this is a really good shot Pete, and I like the colour and tone; I think this would make a really good print.
You’re too kind.
I’ve modified it a bit. I might have overcooked the whites now, but it all adds to my PS experience! I’ve corrected the verticals too, but I won’t post it into architecture just yet :)
Ciaran’s comments arrived while I was overcooking the whites. Looking at the original photo again I just feel depressed by it really. Thanks again both of you for your observations.
I cropped this letterbox-style and got the feeling of traditional Ireland being overwhelmed by – oh whatever the chalets mean to you, modernisation, commercialism. I prefer the whites, by the way!
p&s wrote:
I cropped this letterbox-style and got the feeling of traditional Ireland being overwhelmed by – oh whatever the chalets mean to you, modernisation, commercialism. I prefer the whites, by the way!
Donegal is just one building site at the moment. What I find extraordinary (and have done since I moved here in 1993) is that old houses of real character are left to decay while new ticky-tacky box bungalows are erected in their shadows. One day someone’s going to realise that Irish architectural history has been destroyed and all we’ll have is McMansions and 3 styles of bungalow cloned thousands of times.
I’m speaking as a newly citizenized Irishman (Taffy the Irishman or Paddy the Welshman, take yer pick Sor).
Well said Pete! I hired a house in Rathmullan last Summer and there was no running water a couple of days as the water system could not cope with the demand from all the ‘new builds.’ I played a round of golf at Dunfanaghy and also at Rossapenna – two perfect examples of landscapes ruined by legoland second homes, deserted half the year… :(
I love this image, I tend to look for things to “read” in photos and I like what I see here. I see the reflection almost like nature’s judgement on the buildings. The older building (like the hillside) has a strong, clear reflection on the water suggesting permanence and the environment’s acceptance. The newer buildings on the other hand have no reflection, this suggests that they are temporary and in a sense unwelcome. I didn’t get the feeling of the area being overwhelmed, more that the environment and the older buildings will endure while the newer buildings rot and disappear
//Cian
cian.m.hayes wrote:
I love this image, I tend to look for things to “read” in photos and I like what I see here. I see the reflection almost like nature’s judgement on the buildings. The older building (like the hillside) has a strong, clear reflection on the water suggesting permanence and the environment’s acceptance. The newer buildings on the other hand have no reflection, this suggests that they are temporary and in a sense unwelcome. I didn’t get the feeling of the area being overwhelmed, more that the environment and the older buildings will endure while the newer buildings rot and disappear
//Cian
Thanks Cian. I like that interpretation.
I think this is a great image. Not into the Photoshop end of things but as an image i think you have caught something special here . Love the contrast between the beautiful old house and the plastic houses on the hillside. A good photographic statement about the landscape. Martin Parr’s early work written all over it. Well done.
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