An Indian small town--for your C&C

[aliyawar]

For your C&C please .,... ..


indian-small-town by AliYawar.M, on Flickr

 

[aliyawar]

Hey.. no response>>????

 

[John27]

It's neat, and the sky is very cool, but I think it would have been a better image if there hadn't been so much post processing. As a person from another country, I don't have an idea about what it should look like and thus my brain can't 'fill in the blanks'. I would be more interested in an image like this if it were closer to the actual representation of what was shot, rather than a fairly heavily modified one. Though perhaps an Indian audience would appreciate this more as it's something they can understand better.

For example, this sort of a post processing technique on an image of St.Louis, the nearest big city to me, would be interesting to me because it would be a surreal take on a familiar sight. But on a less familiar sight, it just becomes sort of rough and uninteresting.

Just my $0.02

 

[Bitter Jeweler]

It's not bad.

Ali, what can this image teach us about you or this place?

 

[aliyawar]

It's not bad.

Ali, what can this image teach us about you or this place?

Thanks,man..

This image was an attempt to capture the intriguing dullness of an indian small town(it is actually a photo from where i live)...this picture can actually depict most indian small towns..with coconut and palm trees.... clothes hanging on lines...shanties and brick houses....foliage peeping from every unexpected direction.. cluttered..yet vibrant...not so pacey..deep but unturbulent...that's the reason for such heavy postprocessing..it adds a surreal touch...and maintains the monotonous dourness while adding a certain edgy and vibrant feel...

 

[aliyawar]

It's neat, and the sky is very cool, but I think it would have been a better image if there hadn't been so much post processing. As a person from another country, I don't have an idea about what it should look like and thus my brain can't 'fill in the blanks'. I would be more interested in an image like this if it were closer to the actual representation of what was shot, rather than a fairly heavily modified one. Though perhaps an Indian audience would appreciate this more as it's something they can understand better.

For example, this sort of a post processing technique on an image of St.Louis, the nearest big city to me, would be interesting to me because it would be a surreal take on a familiar sight. But on a less familiar sight, it just becomes sort of rough and uninteresting.

Just my $0.02

I think I have a black and white version of this image...i will try to post it here ...Thanks for your help...

 

[aliyawar]

Here is the original pic...or as close to original as it can get.. ,,


indian-small-town-orig by AliYawar.M, on Flickr

 

[Frequency]

Your processing is too much here, i am afraid.... What you had shown here is the part of a slum, i think.....

 

[irfan.in.tx]

I liked the image. A light sepia tone would fix it in the past, and give it that "stuck in a time warp" feel that you may be trying to bring out.

 

[tirediron]

The processing and high contrast are what are detracting from this image from a western point of view. This processing may work well as scene for an Indian audience, but for European/American viewers too much detail is lost; we want to see what's going on and see what makes it different from our small town and way of life. Here's an example of what I mean, shot in Chennai about five years ago:

 

[aliyawar]

Your processing is too much here, i am afraid.... What you had shown here is the part of a slum, i think.....

Thanks for your help
Technically it's not a slum...

 

[aliyawar]

The processing and high contrast are what are detracting from this image from a western point of view. This processing may work well as scene for an Indian audience, but for European/American viewers too much detail is lost; we want to see what's going on and see what makes it different from our small town and way of life. Here's an example of what I mean, shot in Chennai about five years ago:

Thanks..

But,if you've read my comment,i am trying to bring out a general feel to it... wouldn't too much detail ruin it.... just my opinion..

 

[aliyawar]

I liked the image. A light sepia tone would fix it in the past, and give it that "stuck in a time warp" feel that you may be trying to bring out.

Thanks.. I will try to do that..

 

[John27]

Thanks..

But,if you've read my comment,i am trying to bring out a general feel to it... wouldn't too much detail ruin it.... just my opinion..

It sounds like John and I are on the same page with this one. It's a neat picture, and bringing out the detail probably would ruin the 'feel' you are going for. It's just hard for us, as westerners, to appreciate the image because we don't really know what we are looking at. Detail is lost in post processing, normally, your brain will 'fill in' those gaps based on previous information and allow you to understand and enjoy an image like that. Since we westerners don't usually have much experience with India (except on the phone!), it's hard for us to fill in those blanks where the detail has been lost.

Imagine for a moment your picture of that town, was the first sight you had ever seen of that town.... AND you had only seen towns like it, or images of the country it's in, only a few times before in an occasional newspaper or school textbook? That's where I'm at, and that's why it's hard to really 'get it'

 

[aliyawar]

Thanks..

But,if you've read my comment,i am trying to bring out a general feel to it... wouldn't too much detail ruin it.... just my opinion..

It sounds like John and I are on the same page with this one. It's a neat picture, and bringing out the detail probably would ruin the 'feel' you are going for. It's just hard for us, as westerners, to appreciate the image because we don't really know what we are looking at. Detail is lost in post processing, normally, your brain will 'fill in' those gaps based on previous information and allow you to understand and enjoy an image like that. Since we westerners don't usually have much experience with India (except on the phone!), it's hard for us to fill in those blanks where the detail has been lost.

Imagine for a moment your picture of that town, was the first sight you had ever seen of that town.... AND you had only seen towns like it, or images of the country it's in, only a few times before in an occasional newspaper or school textbook? That's where I'm at, and that's why it's hard to really 'get it'

Yeahh.. i get what you are trying to say... thanks ..