railway bridge

bribrius · Apr 30, 2015

sorry ken, not really seeing it. If you shot the entire bridge i would see it. If you shot it as a straight abstract and brought out the lines, textures, some symmetry or something i would see it. These seems somewhere in between in a awkward place. jmo. Maybe if it was a bw bringin out the details, but it would still be a little weak.

tirediron · Apr 30, 2015

Have to agree with Brib' - I suspect that there are a lot of cool images here, but this doesn't really strike me as any of them.

annamaria · Apr 30, 2015

I agree with brib

baturn · Apr 30, 2015

I think the problem is the title. I like the photo, especially the detail of the wood grain of the forms standing out in the old concrete.

KenC · Apr 30, 2015

Thanks to all for commenting. For those who didn't like it, was it a matter of not getting in close enough? If so, which part could work?

astroNikon · Apr 30, 2015

firstly .... title was "railway bridge"
then I opened the thread and saw .... "huh, what ?" I didn't see a railway bridge. It took me a bit to see it. You knew what you took a photo of but the title threw us off and made us think too much of how the photo was correlated to the title.

After that, then what Brian said plus B&W possibly.

my $0.00002 cents worth

FFphoto · Apr 30, 2015

I would have to agree with the others. While I find the wood grain in the cement to be cool there just is not enough of the structure there. From what I can see it could be a building a road bridge or any other cement structure.

Ysarex · Apr 30, 2015

I think it has great potential. Even out the tone so there's no shadow at the top or the underside. Even the tone further by darkening the front of the arch. Then convert to B&W and lean hard on the contrast.

Joe

funwitha7d · Apr 30, 2015

the build quality of the wood work is impressive all the same

Dagwood56 · May 1, 2015

I agree with whoever said the title threw people off, I know it did for me. I think this would work best in black and white. I'd also be tempted to crop down from the top a bit, say about midway of that first concrete block and crop up from the bottom about midway of the last concrete block. To me that would make it a stronger image of angles and shapes and the black and white I feel would definitely set off the textures much better.

KenC · May 1, 2015

Thanks for the additional comments. I processed a different image, which had more of the underside of the arch and less above, which seemed more interesting to me. I also boosted the contrast in the conversion and a little bit selectively in PS and converted to B&W. I normally don't push contrast this much, but I think it does work here. Thanks for the suggestions!

As for the title, that was just a default, as I didn't have anything better.

Dagwood56 · May 1, 2015

I think the second one works really well.

Gary A. · May 1, 2015

Ysarex said:
I think it has great potential. Even out the tone so there's no shadow at the top or the underside. Even the tone further by darkening the front of the arch. Then convert to B&W and lean hard on the contrast.

Joe

I like the B&W much better. On my monitor I'd even go just a tad more with the contrast. You'll lose some detail by upping the contrast but gain in boldness. You want to show/demonstrate/project strength ... the unmovable object.