P52 Week 24: Full Sun (June 11 - 17)

[mollyc]

Love the shadows in the second one.

 

[mollyc]

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Slowly will be getting posts in for the last few weeks. One interesting take on full sun is black-and-white, I feel. This was with a light red filter and probably a bit of IR leaking in.

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I find this crop more pleasing than the above. It just "rests on my eye" better. It got rid of the annoying "ray gun" greenish thingie on the right and just "seems" slightly better. I'd love any feedback that folks have (and includes if your choices are entirely different than my own ).

I love the third black and white you posted and definitely prefer the second crop of the cactus photo. 🙂

 

[mollyc]

View attachment 2219815 Busy week and then straight off to a bike weekend with my father. Thus, this week „only“ iphone pictures.

Who is going to argue with views like that? Such a great way to spend time with your dad.

 

[mollyc]

Today in the garden.

Sunday, June 18, 2023 - iPhone 13PM
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CC Always Welcome

Wow your garden is coming in great! I only plant flowers, I think I need to give them some fertilizer to get them growing a bit larger; I usually add some in when I plant but it occurred to me recently that I forgot this year. Will have to sprinkle some about this week.

 

[mollyc]

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what a pretty little blossom. ❤️

 

[mollyc]

Bath Abbey

Another iPhone attempt.
Just after mid day, full sun on the western front. Hard harsh light… very little nuance here!

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iPhone 13
Photoshop RAW
macOS Photos

Unsurprising that you would find an ornate building to photograph! I love it.

 

[arkitect]

Unsurprising that you would find an ornate building to photograph! I love it.

Indeed! Can't help myself.

I would love to get better at photographing architecture. Surprisingly difficult… 🤣

 

[arkitect]

Was there 2018.

Hope you enjoyed it. It is a smallish city, but to my mind almost the perfect size. Able to walk pretty much anywhere… 🙂

 

[Longplays]

Hope you enjoyed it. It is a smallish city, but to my mind almost the perfect size. Able to walk pretty much anywhere… 🙂

Was there on a tour bus so the time wasn't mine to control.

Would have wanted to go around more for a bit.

 

[Janichsan]

Love the shadows in the second one.

That was what caught my eye when taking the picture. I also deepened the shadows somewhat in edit to accentuate them.

 

[_timo_redux_]

Indeed! Can't help myself.

I would love to get better at photographing architecture. Surprisingly difficult… 🤣

My entry into photography was photographing architecture; I reasoned to myself I should learn to photograph my projects.

While I still like buildings, the built environment, and photographs in and around buildings, I found the project of making staged and "perfect" pictures of spaces to be exhausting and, for lack of a better word, "fake." I always wanted to insert human elements in my pictures, and none of my clients lived in spaces like they're presented in magazines. So I kinda gave it up; fortunately portraiture of family filled in and enthusiastically carried me for years.

Now the kids are growing up and I've been moving back to architecture, or more properly the urban mise-en-scène. Faves are when people make an appearance, or stark shadows, because it is so hard to make straight up architecture pictures that are interesting.

An aside: I was reading Robert Adams last night; an essay he wrote about Paul Strand. He mentioned a seminal book of Strand's, called Time in New England. Adams is describing Strand's efforts to photograph both a place and a resilient cornerstone of culture, and he reproduces this Strand picture, saying, "it is, I think, among the greatest architectural pictures ever made."

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Now here's a picture in full sun! I love the contrast, the black windows (one way in school we made windows look like windows was to darken them), the sky dark but the clapboards not washed out.

But that eroded edge! The slight skew! What is going on? Last night I spent a fair amount of time wrapping my head around this, because the picture /does/ speak to me, despite? because of? these "flaws." Sure the author Robert Adams is a respected photographer, but still he is also just some guy ... what does someone make of this assertion of this being not just great but among the greatest architectural photographs?

The only thing I can say for certain is this image is a long long way from "documenting" projects and a magazine spread in a lifestyle magazine.

(I had to screen grab this; the reproduction in Adams' book is better, and the print itself appears to not be on view anywhere I could easily find.)

 

[mollyc]

My entry into photography was photographing architecture; I reasoned to myself I should learn to photograph my projects.

While I still like buildings, the built environment, and photographs in and around buildings, I found the project of making staged and "perfect" pictures of spaces to be exhausting and, for lack of a better word, "fake." I always wanted to insert human elements in my pictures, and none of my clients lived in spaces like they're presented in magazines. So I kinda gave it up; fortunately portraiture of family filled in and enthusiastically carried me for years.

Now the kids are growing up and I've been moving back to architecture, or more properly the urban mise-en-scène. Faves are when people make an appearance, or stark shadows, because it is so hard to make straight up architecture pictures that are interesting.

An aside: I was reading Robert Adams last night; an essay he wrote about Paul Strand. He mentioned a seminal book of Strand's, called Time in New England. Adams is describing Strand's efforts to photograph both a place and a resilient cornerstone of culture, and he reproduces this Strand picture, saying, "it is, I think, among the greatest architectural pictures ever made."

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Now here's a picture in full sun! I love the contrast, the black windows (one way in school we made windows look like windows was to darken them), the sky dark but the clapboards not washed out.

But that eroded edge! The slight skew! What is going on? Last night I spent a fair amount of time wrapping my head around this, because the picture /does/ speak to me, despite? because of? these "flaws." Sure the author Robert Adams is a respected photographer, but still he is also just some guy ... what does someone make of this assertion of this being not just great but among the greatest architectural photographs?

The only thing I can say for certain is this image is a long long way from "documenting" projects and a magazine spread in a lifestyle magazine.

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(I had to screen grab this; the reproduction in Adams' book is better, and the print itself appears to not be on view anywhere I could easily find.)

What you may not know is that @arkitect draws and paints the most magnificent architectural prints. So I was teasing him with finding buildings to photograph because his watercolor images are so much more spectacular than his iPhone photos.

As to the photo in your quote, is the photograph skewed in the lines, or is the building just so old that it has no straight lines? I run into that even when going to Georgetown with "new" buildings (new when compared to the age of buildings you could find in the UK). I also imagine it was a lot harder to square up an image in camera than now, what with our built in levels and modern conveniences.

Or, as I re-read your post...I might be misunderstanding it, not knowing either Strand or Roberts. Is this a modern image, reproducing one from 1944 or earlier?

 

[_timo_redux_]

What you may not know is that @arkitect draws and paints the most magnificent architectural prints. So I was teasing him with finding buildings to photograph because his watercolor images are so much more spectacular than

Glad to know! Architectural prints are a special level of both interesting and difficult.

Or, as I re-read your post...I might be misunderstanding it, not knowing either Strand or Roberts. Is this a modern image, reproducing one from 1944 or earlier?

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Paul Strand

The image is a Strand photograph that Strand made in 1944, reproduced in an Adams book (he has made 50 plus books) in 1994. According to Adams, the Stand photo is definitely deliberatively skewed, and presumably deliberatively framed just so. By the time Strand makes that 1944 image, he's been photographing for nearly 40 years.

 

[mollyc]

Glad to know! Architectural prints are a special level of both interesting and difficult.



Robert Adams
Paul Strand

The image is a Strand photograph that Strand made in 1944, reproduced in an Adams book (he has made 50 plus books) in 1994. According to Adams, the Stand photo is definitely deliberatively skewed, and presumably deliberatively framed just so. By the time Strand makes that 1944 image, he's been photographing for nearly 40 years.

Honestly I'm more bothered by the cut off right side than the skewing! I can forgive the skewing under the pretense that it was made with vintage equipment (even if it was purposeful, most viewers wouldn't know that). But the crop is just unforgivable to me!

 

[_timo_redux_]

Honestly I'm more bothered by the cut off right side than the skewing! I can forgive the skewing under the pretense that it was made with vintage equipment (even if it was purposeful, most viewers wouldn't know that). But the crop is just unforgivable to me!

I know how you feel and can't point to a time I'd want to crop this way; yet I remain intrigued by this image.

Not trying to convince anyone else; only offered as food for thought.

 

[ffff14P]

It was surprisingly hard to get some good light to photograph this building at my university. Shooting in full sun meant some planning ahead for me to be at the right place at the right light.

 

[kenoh]

Lol, I am struggling here because I live in Scotland - grey skies aplenty. I will get a shot when the sun appears but it could be some time. He he he...

 

[AppleKarma]