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Loftus Hall 2 – FUBAR
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Way back in sunnier climes I presented the image of Loftus Hall. A nice image with a foreboding tale…and they didn’t match. So, I went down that direction a few weeks back. Still blue skys but quite heavy white clouds but I couldn’t leave them alone and I really wanted to present Loftus Hall as the haunting place it’s interpreted to be. It’s not how I would have liked it to turn out but I was quite happy with the image. It’s FUBAR, but so is Loftus Hall.
Alan
I know this place and whilst I’m not one for the super-natural, I wouldn’t go near it. It’s big, it’s boarded up, it’s creepy. Just knowing this place adds to what you are trying to convey.
I think you’ve done a good job on conveying a dark, mysterious, desolate building… the mood suits.
But where it all goes wrong for me is the sky… it takes this from being a digital photograph to a digitally produced image which to me are slightly different things. It doesn’t look natural at all, more like it was painted on. I think that this shot, with a deep, dark, disturbing… but natural sky would really take this to another level.
That being said… it does remind me quite a bit of that Frank Miller Sin City/300 look (similar to the Hook you once posted).
I’d agree with John, to some extent-
but is the sky at least partly as a result of a long exposure?
Which might allow it to claw back some of its ‘photographic’ quality-The most striking thing about this picture, for me, is the floodlit quality of the light on the facade-
and I suppose it didn’t actually look like that-I suppose you aren’t really doing anything that couldn’t be done, one way or another, in a traditional darkroom-
though, I might not ever have gone to the trouble of doing all that myself, when I used to use one-Is a striking picture- I tried for a similar result myself not long ago-
but not knowing the building, I might not have had the reaction you had intended-
As I said, the building looks floodlit, therefore inhabited and cared for,
therefore, not particularly haunted-Am I making any sense?
j
Sorry to burst bubbles but cloud was natural and floodlit it was not. This isn’t a digitally generated image John. There were unusual clouds on the day – not black and white but blue and white. The floodlit effect Joseph was as a result of the OTT processing with contrast, curves, Shadow & Highlight and generally trying to make it look stark and exposed but certainly wasn’t intended. I wouldn’t have intended the image to be this way but when I went so far it did arrive at a time when I said that it was acceptable.
Blue and white isn’t how I’d like Loftus Hall to appear..even though I did in the past. Natural is something I also wouldn’t necessarily aim for. But, a good cloudy day with a slight conversion would make a nice image as you suggest John. Sometimes a nice image isn’t the aim, more of a different slant on perceptions.
I do appreciate your observations though J & J and would always want to hear your frank views, it makes you think for the next day.
Alan.
No bubbles burst-
I never said it was floodlit,
just that it had a floodlit quality-Still a striking picture-
and that’s a good thing-j
Times you learn skills on this forum, other times you learn to read. :oops:
Consider the bubble reinflated. :wink:
Alan.
OK, maybe I should re-phrase:
Based on looking at the final image on screen the clouds appear quite un-natural.
Based on this appearance it would make one think that they have been either digitally manufactured or so far processed that they no longer appear natural.
As far as a ‘nice’ image goes… no, a nice image was never requested… same broody, mysterious effect… just cloud/sky that appears more natural but retains the menace and mood.
This might be, maybe, possibly, seems to be, appears to be, could be, potentially only my opinion,
but I stand by every word of it-:wink:
j
Uh-oh! Must have forgotten to put in a :wink: , a :lol: or a :D in my earlier surmising. Wasn’t confrontational gents, just explaining my reasons for something which obviously isn’t a standard “photograph”. Clarifying queries, as it were. :wink:.
Hugs & Kisses :sick ,
Alan.
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